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Viktor Arvidsson

5-10, 25 goals, and plus-20 on a club that was minus-17.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2014-15	NSH	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	10:15
2015-16	NSH	56	8	8	16	-8	35	1	0	3	139	5.8	12:24
2016-17	NSH	80	31	30	61	+16	28	4	5	6	246	12.6	17:09
2017-18	NSH	78	29	32	61	+20	36	3	3	6	247	11.7	17:45
2018-19	NSH	58	34	14	48	+12	26	3	2	7	195	17.4	19:09
2019-20	NSH	57	15	13	28	-4	26	4	0	1	127	11.8	16:12
2020-21	NSH	50	10	15	25	+9	21	2	0	2	151	6.6	16:36
2021-22	LAK	66	20	29	49	+1	22	4	0	3	227	8.8	16:59
2022-23	LAK	77	26	33	59	-4	24	10	1	2	228	11.4	17:06
2023-24	LAK	18	6	9	15	+4	14	1	0	1	59	10.2	16:42
2024-25	EDM	67	15	12	27	-3	24	1	0	2	158	9.5	15:00
2025-26	BOS	69	25	29	54	+20	24	4	0	6	175	14.3	14:36
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	682	219	224	443	+63	280	37	11	39	1961	11.2	16:19

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

25 goals and 29 assists in 69 games — 54 points, plus-20, at 14:36 a night. His 5-on-5 work was done in Boston.

The Finesse Game

A shooter’s shooter. 263 unblocked attempts in 69 games from a median of 28 feet with 41 per cent inside 20, and 25 goals — a high rate from a player getting under 15 minutes a night.

219 goals in 682 career games. The release has never been the question.

The Physical Game

5-10, 181, and he plays a great deal harder than that. He forechecks with genuine intent and takes the punishment in front of the net that a man his size has no business taking. 24 penalty minutes.

The durability is the cost: 69 games last season, and he has passed 70 twice in 5 years.

The Intangibles

The plus-20 was earned on a club that was outscored, which is unusual, and the underlying numbers do not support it: 49.8 per cent of the expected goals, 53rd percentile, in 843 minutes.

Boston finished 21st and 24th in expected goals and got carried by its goaltender, so read the plus figure as Swayman’s rather than his.

He is 33 and arrives on a club that finished 4th on the power play and needed another finisher for it. 25 goals in 14 minutes a night is a real return, and it is the sort of thing that keeps arriving until it suddenly does not.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 843 minutes

Expected goals: 49.8%; 53rd pct
Shot attempts: 50.3%; 61st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 27 against. Expected: 36.1 and 36.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

53rd

The two rank him within 8 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 69 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 73rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.01 a game
Distance: 2.28 miles a game
Hardest shot: 94.6 mph; 96th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 7 goals, 7 assists, 25 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with BOS · 843 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: BOS took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 843 minutes at five-on-five — 41st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Casey Mittelstadt	51.3%	42.4%	46.4%
Pavel Zacha	49.1%	52.3%	41.9%
Nikita Zadorov	48.4%	50.5%	46.1%

51.3% together, 42.4% for him apart and 46.4% for Mittelstadt apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

263 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.