Emil Lilleberg Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Cirelli does better away from him: 58.8% of the expected goals apart against 48.6% together.

133 minutes together, 740 minutes apart

Charle-Edouard D'Astous is the partner who brings the best out of him

Lilleberg is at his best beside D'Astous: 57.0% of the expected goals together against 49.2% apart.

452 minutes together, 309 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Anthony Cirelli

The pairing with Cirelli is the one that costs him: 48.6% of the expected goals together, 55.4% apart.

133 minutes together, 628 minutes apart

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

Only 3 of his 12 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Lilleberg than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Paul is a different player beside him: 55.1% of the expected goals with Lilleberg, 51.8% without him.

105 minutes together, 478 minutes apart for Paul

He and Brandon Hagel are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Lilleberg and Hagel: 5.81 expected goals an hour.

157 minutes together at 5v5

Charle-Edouard D'Astous is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with D'Astous than anyone: 452 minutes, worth 57.0% of the expected goals.

25 goals for, 17 against together

The goals go his team's way when Brandon Hagel is out there with him

With Hagel on the ice too, the Lightning have outscored opponents 11 to 6 at 5v5.

64.7% goal share over 157 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Nick Paul are out together

He gives up least beside Paul: 3.26 expected goals against an hour.

105 minutes together at 5v5

Yanni Gourde is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Gourde: 7.76 expected goals against an hour.

32 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Lilleberg with D'Astous, Girgensons, Gourde and Holmberg, 76 minutes at 5v5.

57.2% of the expected goals, 4 goals for and 1 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Cirelli, Hagel and Moser: 1 goal against in 22 minutes.

2.75 against an hour, 3.4 expected

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with D'Astous, Goncalves, Guentzel and Point: 67.0% of the expected goals over 31 minutes.

2 goals for, 2 against, 58.6% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Lilleberg has been shuffled through 24 different five-man units, and only 3 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

12 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Lilleberg this season.

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

Jake Guentzel is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Jake Guentzel has assisted on 2 of his 4 goals, 50.0% of them.

2 primary, 0 secondary

Corey Perry is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Corey Perry's goals, 25.0% of his own assists.

0 primary, 2 secondary

Most of his assists are second touches, not the key pass

37.5% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

3 primary of 8 assists

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 103.1, running hot and likely to cool.

12.0% shooting and 91.1% goaltending behind him, 22nd of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.76 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

19th of 246 defencemen

His team wins the goal battle while he is on the ice

The Lightning score 59.4% of the 5v5 goals with Lilleberg out there.

41 for, 28 against, 23rd of 246 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 51.19 shot attempts an hour with Lilleberg on the ice at 5v5.

28th of 246 defencemen

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Lightning generate 53.8% of the expected goals with Lilleberg on the ice.

55.4 xGF to 47.6 xGA over 761 minutes, 44th of 246 defencemen

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 8.76 expected goals an hour.

10 goals against in 80 minutes, 38th of 156 defencemen

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Lightning are up 4 goals with Lilleberg on the ice.

44 for, 40 against, 53rd of 245 defencemen

His line puts far more rubber on the net than it allows

52.1% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Lilleberg is on.

342 for, 314 against, 62nd of 246 defencemen

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 59.4% of the goals off 53.8% of the expected goals.

5.6 points of goal share above expectation

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Lilleberg's line owns 51.7% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

694 for, 649 against, 69th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Lightning create 4.37 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Lilleberg on.

106th of 246 defencemen

He takes an ordinary share of the penalty killing

He draws 2:06 of penalty kill time a game, 76th among defencemen.

9.3% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Lilleberg plays 17:18 a night, 166th among defencemen.

865 minutes across 50 games

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +15 on the season.

71st in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 4.23 penalty minutes an hour.

91st most penalty minutes an hour

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 2.84 shots on goal an hour.

815th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.42 times an hour.

784th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

6 takeaways against 42 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.14 takeaways per giveaway

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 6.66 checks an hour.

256th in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Lilleberg produces 0.83 points an hour of ice time.

667th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.56 assists an hour of ice time.

649th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 3.12 shots an hour of ice time.

378th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.28 goals an hour of ice time.

567th in the league

He gives the puck away about as often as most

He gives it away 2.91 times an hour.

462nd most giveaways an hour

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

27.6% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

27 of 98 attempts, 8th of 241 defencemen

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 6.79 attempts an hour of ice time.

98 attempts in 865 minutes, 219th of 245 defencemen

He gets almost nothing from long range

54.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

53 long-range attempts, 203rd of 241 defencemen

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Lilleberg has taken 98 shot attempts this season.

39 on goal, 28 missed, 27 blocked, 198th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

27.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

27 of 98 attempts, 43rd of 241 defencemen

He gets his chances from the dirty areas, not the perimeter

27.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

27 attempts from inside the home plate, 43rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

24.5% of his attempts are the snap shot.

24 attempts, 2 goals

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

60.6% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

43 of 71 unblocked, 167th of 241 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 42.7 feet.

98 located attempts, 158th of 241 defencemen

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Igor Shesterkin: 6 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Jaroslav Chmelar.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Jaroslav Chmelar has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 11.1% of his attempts.

3 goals on 27 close attempts, 3rd of 221 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Lilleberg has 4 goals off 3.3 expected: 0.7 more than the chances alone say.

36th of 241 defencemen

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 9.3% of the shots he puts on goal.

4 goals on 43 shots, 38th of 241 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 18.9 feet out, and the longest went in from 35.

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