Mattias Ekholm Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Andrew Mangiapane

The pairing with Mangiapane is the one that costs him: 44.4% of the expected goals together, 58.2% apart.

187 minutes together, 1,243 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Frederic is a different player beside him: 60.4% of the expected goals with Ekholm, 45.8% without him.

162 minutes together, 642 minutes apart for Frederic

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

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

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

Zach Hyman is the partner who brings the best out of him

Ekholm is at his best beside Hyman: 59.8% of the expected goals together against 54.3% apart.

514 minutes together, 916 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Mangiapane does better away from him: 48.8% of the expected goals apart against 44.4% together.

187 minutes together, 426 minutes apart

He and Zach Hyman are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Ekholm and Hyman: 6.17 expected goals an hour.

514 minutes together at 5v5

Evan Bouchard is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Bouchard than anyone: 1,216 minutes, worth 56.1% of the expected goals.

69 goals for, 55 against together

The goals go his team's way when Vasily Podkolzin is out there with him

With Podkolzin on the ice too, the Oilers have outscored opponents 27 to 15 at 5v5.

64.3% goal share over 411 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Trent Frederic are out together

He gives up least beside Frederic: 3.46 expected goals against an hour.

162 minutes together at 5v5

Connor McDavid is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with McDavid: 8.73 expected goals against an hour.

31 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Bouchard, Draisaitl, Hyman and McDavid: 64.6% of the expected goals over 89 minutes.

5 goals for, 6 against, 63.5% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Ekholm with Bouchard, Hyman, McDavid and Nugent-Hopkins, 248 minutes at 5v5.

58.4% of the expected goals, 14 goals for and 15 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Bouchard, Henrique and Savoie: 2 goals against in 43 minutes.

2.82 against an hour, 6.6 expected

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Bouchard, Draisaitl, Kapanen and Podkolzin: 36.0% of the expected goals.

6 goals for, 0 against over 33 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Ekholm has played 39 different five-man units at 5v5, 7 of them for real minutes.

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 Ekholm this season.

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

Connor McDavid is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Connor McDavid has assisted on 2 of his 6 goals, 33.3% of them.

1 primary, 1 secondary

Connor McDavid is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 9 of Connor McDavid's goals, 25.7% of his own assists.

5 primary, 4 secondary

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

40.0% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

14 primary of 35 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

8 different teammates have assisted on his 6 goals.

McDavid (2), Draisaitl (2), Hyman (1), Savoie (1)

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

56.7% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Ekholm is on.

775 for, 591 against, 10th of 246 defencemen

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Ekholm's line owns 55.9% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,538 for, 1,211 against, 16th of 246 defencemen

The offence comes alive when he steps on the ice

The Oilers create 5.33 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Ekholm on.

17th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Oilers generate 56.5% of the expected goals with Ekholm on the ice.

127.0 xGF to 97.9 xGA over 1,430 minutes, 16th of 246 defencemen

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 50.82 shot attempts an hour with Ekholm on the ice at 5v5.

23rd of 246 defencemen

The kill leaks goals when he is the one out there

Short-handed he concedes 11.68 expected goals an hour.

18 goals against in 141 minutes, 137th of 156 defencemen

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

The Oilers are up 19 goals with Ekholm on the ice.

110 for, 91 against, 30th of 245 defencemen

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

The Oilers score 55.9% of the 5v5 goals with Ekholm out there.

85 for, 67 against, 45th of 246 defencemen

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 99.6, close to neutral.

11.0% shooting and 88.7% goaltending behind him, 143rd of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.11 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

65th of 246 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Ekholm plays 20:34 a night, 85th among defencemen.

1,687 minutes across 82 games

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:46 of penalty kill time a game, 107th among defencemen.

8.3% of his total ice time

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +32 on the season.

17th in the league

How he gets his points says what kind of player he is

Only 7.3% of his points come on the power play: this is even-strength production.

3 of 41 points with the man advantage

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 4.44 shots an hour of ice time.

170th in the league

He is the one who makes the play, not the one who finishes it

He sets up 1.24 assists an hour of ice time.

214th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

25 takeaways against 101 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.25 takeaways per giveaway

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.59 times an hour.

221st most giveaways an hour

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 2.31 checks an hour.

641st in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Ekholm produces 1.46 points an hour of ice time.

390th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.21 goals an hour of ice time.

621st in the league

His power play production is about league average

On the power play he produces 0.11 points an hour.

392nd in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.07 penalty minutes an hour.

600th most penalty minutes an hour

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 4.66 shots on goal an hour.

540th in the league

He wins the puck back about as often as most

He takes the puck back 0.89 times an hour.

422nd in the league

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Ekholm has taken 308 shot attempts this season.

125 on goal, 74 missed, 103 blocked, 41st of 241 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

40.9% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

126 long-range attempts, 47th of 241 defencemen

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

26.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

83 attempts from inside the home plate, 52nd of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

26.9% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

83 of 308 attempts, 53rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

27.6% of his attempts are the slap shot.

85 attempts, 2 goals

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

33.4% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

103 of 308 attempts, 60th of 241 defencemen

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 39.5 feet.

308 located attempts, 57th of 241 defencemen

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

56.5% of his attempts come from the left side.

174 left, 89 middle, 45 right

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

He fires 10.95 attempts an hour of ice time.

308 attempts in 1,687 minutes, 73rd of 245 defencemen

He hits the net about as often as anyone

63.9% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

131 of 205 unblocked, 120th of 241 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Ekholm has scored 1 times on Sergei Bobrovsky this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 7 attempts, 14.3%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jesper Wallstedt has turned him away every time: 12 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 3 goals against the Ducks this season.

13 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Jesper Wallstedt: 12 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

There is one team he simply cannot get going against

The Wild have held him without a goal on 19 attempts.

the most attempts he has taken against a club without scoring

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Ryan Lomberg has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Ekholm has 6 goals off 11.4 expected: 5.4 short of what the chances say.

224th of 241 defencemen

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the wrist shot: 3.3% of them go in.

2 goals on 60 attempts

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 4.8% of his attempts.

4 goals on 83 close attempts, 46th of 221 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 26.6 feet out, and the longest went in from 55.

6 goals located by coordinate

He shoots at about the league's usual rate

He converts 4.6% of the shots he puts on goal.

6 goals on 131 shots, 144th of 241 defencemen

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