Axel Sandin-Pellikka Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Albert Johansson is the partner who brings the best out of him

Sandin-Pellikka is at his best beside Johansson: 57.5% of the expected goals together against 47.3% apart.

125 minutes together, 803 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Johansson is a different player beside him: 57.5% of the expected goals with Sandin-Pellikka, 43.4% without him.

125 minutes together, 1,021 minutes apart for Johansson

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Soderblom does better away from him: 55.5% of the expected goals apart against 44.6% together.

116 minutes together, 292 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Simon Edvinsson

The pairing with Edvinsson is the one that costs him: 42.1% of the expected goals together, 49.7% apart.

140 minutes together, 789 minutes apart

His linemates play better with him than without him, every time

10 of his 15 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Sandin-Pellikka than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Mason Appleton are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Sandin-Pellikka and Appleton: 5.78 expected goals an hour.

189 minutes together at 5v5

Ben Chiarot is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Chiarot than anyone: 573 minutes, worth 47.3% of the expected goals.

24 goals for, 26 against together

The goals go his team's way when Patrick Kane is out there with him

With Kane on the ice too, the Red Wings have outscored opponents 11 to 9 at 5v5.

55.0% goal share over 188 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Albert Johansson are out together

He gives up least beside Johansson: 3.63 expected goals against an hour.

125 minutes together at 5v5

Marco Kasper is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Kasper: 95.3% of the expected goals over 43 minutes.

2 goals for, 1 against together

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Chiarot, Copp, DeBrincat and Kane: 43.3% of the expected goals.

7 goals for, 3 against over 77 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Chiarot, Finnie, Larkin and Raymond: 43.4% of the expected goals over 76 minutes.

3 goals for, 5 against, 48.9% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Sandin-Pellikka with Chiarot, Copp, DeBrincat and Kane, 77 minutes at 5v5.

43.3% of the expected goals, 7 goals for and 3 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is DeBrincat, Kane, Larkin and Raymond: 1 goal in 19 minutes.

3.21 goals an hour, 3.7 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Sandin-Pellikka has been shuffled through 38 different five-man units, and only 2 of them have settled.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

15 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Sandin-Pellikka this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Dylan Larkin is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Dylan Larkin has assisted on 2 of his 7 goals, 28.6% of them.

2 primary, 0 secondary

Lucas Raymond is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 3 of Lucas Raymond's goals, 21.4% of his own assists.

3 primary, 0 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

50.0% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

7 primary of 14 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

10 different teammates have assisted on his 7 goals.

Larkin (2), Raymond (2), Kane (2), Copp (1)

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 96.4, running cold and likely to correct.

7.9% shooting and 88.5% goaltending behind him, 224th of 246 defencemen

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Red Wings score 40.7% of the 5v5 goals with Sandin-Pellikka out there.

33 for, 48 against, 212th of 246 defencemen

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 40.7% of the goals off 48.6% of the expected goals.

7.9 points of goal share below expectation

The defence springs leaks when he is out there

He gives up 4.75 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

182nd of 246 defencemen

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Red Wings are down 13 goals with Sandin-Pellikka on the ice.

44 for, 57 against, 162nd of 245 defencemen

The power play stalls when he is the one out there

On the power play his unit generates 8.82 expected goals an hour.

11 goals in 119 minutes, 56th of 85 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Red Wings create 4.49 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Sandin-Pellikka on.

86th of 246 defencemen

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 58.85 shot attempts an hour with Sandin-Pellikka on the ice at 5v5.

149th of 246 defencemen

The run of play is about even when he is on the ice

At 5v5 the Red Wings generate 48.6% of the expected goals with Sandin-Pellikka on the ice.

69.5 xGF to 73.6 xGA over 929 minutes, 139th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Sandin-Pellikka's line owns 50.1% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

916 for, 911 against, 104th of 246 defencemen

Shots even out when he is on the ice

49.9% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Sandin-Pellikka is on.

416 for, 417 against, 108th of 246 defencemen

He is barely used, which tells you where he sits

Sandin-Pellikka plays 16:12 a night, 200th among defencemen.

1,102 minutes across 68 games

He gets an ordinary share of the power play time

He draws 1:53 of power play time a game, 45th among defencemen.

10.8% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -20 on the season.

904th in the league

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 0.93 checks an hour.

849th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.44 times an hour.

778th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

8 takeaways against 60 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.13 takeaways per giveaway

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.38 points an hour.

249th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.7 shots on goal an hour.

683rd in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.27 times an hour.

326th most giveaways an hour

He stays out of the box, which his coach can rely on

He takes 0.98 penalty minutes an hour.

632nd most penalty minutes an hour

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.94 shots an hour of ice time.

412th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.38 goals an hour of ice time.

498th in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.76 assists an hour of ice time.

505th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Sandin-Pellikka produces 1.14 points an hour of ice time.

526th in the league

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

55.7% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

68 of 122 unblocked, 221st of 241 defencemen

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

42.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

89 of 211 attempts, 203rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

25.6% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

54 attempts, 4 goals

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 11.48 attempts an hour of ice time.

211 attempts in 1,102 minutes, 63rd of 245 defencemen

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

51.7% of his attempts come from the right side.

37 left, 65 middle, 109 right

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 40.3 feet.

211 located attempts, 84th of 241 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

50.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

106 long-range attempts, 150th of 241 defencemen

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Sandin-Pellikka has taken 211 shot attempts this season.

61 on goal, 54 missed, 89 blocked, 96th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the middle of the ice about as often as most

24.2% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

51 of 211 attempts, 102nd of 241 defencemen

He takes an ordinary share of his shots from close range

23.7% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

50 attempts from inside the home plate, 112th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Sandin-Pellikka has scored 1 times on Andrei Vasilevskiy this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jonathan Quick has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jonathan Quick: 9 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Vasily Podkolzin has hit him 5 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 10.3% of the shots he puts on goal.

7 goals on 68 shots, 22nd of 241 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Sandin-Pellikka has 7 goals off 7.5 expected: 0.5 short of what the chances say.

66th of 241 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 43.7 feet out, and the longest went in from 66.

7 goals located by coordinate

He finishes in tight at about the usual rate

From inside 25 feet he buries 2.0% of his attempts.

1 goals on 51 close attempts, 123rd of 221 defencemen

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