Mattias Ekholm Matchups NHL Stats & Career Totals

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Ekholm has scored 2 times on Yaroslav Askarov this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 11 attempts, 18.2%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Karel Vejmelka has turned him away every time: 10 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

Almost everything he puts on this goalie goes in

His deadliest matchup is Yaroslav Askarov: 18.2% of his attempts against him go in.

2 goals on 11 attempts

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Flames this season.

14 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Yaroslav Askarov: 11 attempts, 2 goals.

18.2% conversion

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Mikhail Sergachev has drawn 4 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

51.7% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

15 of 29 unblocked, 90th of 102 defencemen

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Ekholm has taken 46 shot attempts this season.

13 on goal, 14 missed, 17 blocked, 80th of 102 defencemen

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

41.3% of his attempts come from the left side.

19 left, 16 middle, 11 right

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

37.0% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

17 of 46 attempts, 66th of 102 defencemen

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

34.8% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

16 long-range attempts, 36th of 102 defencemen

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

32.6% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

15 attempts from inside the home plate, 38th of 102 defencemen

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

He fires 13.3 attempts an hour of ice time.

46 attempts in 208 minutes, 47th of 120 defencemen

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

32.6% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

15 of 46 attempts, 40th of 102 defencemen

He shoots from about where everyone else shoots from

His average attempt comes from 38.0 feet.

46 located attempts, 52nd of 102 defencemen

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 0.0% of his attempts.

0 goals on 15 close attempts, 45th of 85 defencemen

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 13.3% of the shots he puts on goal.

2 goals on 15 shots, 14th of 102 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Ekholm has 2 goals off 1.9 expected: 0.1 more than the chances alone say.

32nd of 102 defencemen

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +16 on the season.

3rd in the league

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 4.2 penalty minutes an hour.

640th fewest penalty minutes an hour

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.31 checks an hour.

549th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.26 times an hour.

530th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.15 shots on goal an hour.

528th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.36 times an hour.

182nd fewest giveaways an hour

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.52 assists an hour of ice time.

463rd in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.52 goals an hour of ice time.

299th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Ekholm produces 1.05 points an hour of ice time.

413th in the league

He blocks about as many shots as anyone else

He blocks 2.36 shots an hour of ice time.

349th in the league

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

The Oilers are up 11 goals with Ekholm on the ice.

19 for, 8 against, 5th of 120 defencemen

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Ekholm plays 20:45 a night, 69th among defencemen.

208 minutes across 10 games

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Ekholm with Bouchard, Draisaitl, McDavid and Podkolzin, 99 minutes at 5v5.

58.1% of the expected goals, 9 goals for and 3 against

Isaac Howard is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Isaac Howard has assisted on 2 of his 4 goals, 50.0% of them.

2 primary, 0 secondary

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