Nils Lundkvist Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Oskar Bäck is the partner who brings the best out of him

Lundkvist is at his best beside Bäck: 59.6% of the expected goals together against 49.9% apart.

163 minutes together, 661 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Matt Duchene

The pairing with Duchene is the one that costs him: 42.5% of the expected goals together, 54.8% apart.

223 minutes together, 600 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Hryckowian is a different player beside him: 59.1% of the expected goals with Lundkvist, 50.4% without him.

187 minutes together, 707 minutes apart for Hryckowian

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Duchene does better away from him: 48.1% of the expected goals apart against 42.5% together.

223 minutes together, 519 minutes apart

He and Oskar Bäck are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Lundkvist and Bäck: 5.13 expected goals an hour.

163 minutes together at 5v5

Thomas Harley is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Harley than anyone: 541 minutes, worth 53.6% of the expected goals.

27 goals for, 17 against together

The goals go his team's way when Jason Robertson is out there with him

With Robertson on the ice too, the Stars have outscored opponents 13 to 4 at 5v5.

76.5% goal share over 245 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Justin Hryckowian are out together

He gives up least beside Hryckowian: 3.32 expected goals against an hour.

187 minutes together at 5v5

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Bourque, Harley, Johnston and Robertson: 37.5% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 2 against over 53 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Bourque, Harley, Hintz and Robertson: 68.8% of the expected goals over 44 minutes.

3 goals for, 1 against, 58.9% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Lundkvist with Bourque, Harley, Johnston and Robertson, 53 minutes at 5v5.

37.5% of the expected goals, 2 goals for and 2 against

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Lundkvist has been shuffled through 31 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 Lundkvist this season.

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

Wyatt Johnston is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

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

1 primary, 1 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.

4 primary of 8 assists

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 103.6, running hot and likely to cool.

11.0% shooting and 92.5% goaltending behind him, 16th of 246 defencemen

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

The Stars score 59.0% of the 5v5 goals with Lundkvist out there.

36 for, 25 against, 27th of 246 defencemen

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

The Stars are up 14 goals with Lundkvist on the ice.

40 for, 26 against, 33rd of 245 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.98 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

43rd of 246 defencemen

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 59.0% of the goals off 51.9% of the expected goals.

7.1 points of goal share above expectation

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 53.83 shot attempts an hour with Lundkvist on the ice at 5v5.

66th of 246 defencemen

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

At 5v5 the Stars generate 51.9% of the expected goals with Lundkvist on the ice.

58.9 xGF to 54.6 xGA over 824 minutes, 69th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Lundkvist's line owns 48.9% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

708 for, 739 against, 129th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Stars create 4.29 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Lundkvist on.

128th of 246 defencemen

Shots even out when he is on the ice

49.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Lundkvist is on.

326 for, 335 against, 125th of 246 defencemen

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Lundkvist plays 16:28 a night, 193rd among defencemen.

857 minutes across 52 games

The scoreboard moves his team's way when he plays

He is +12 on the season.

110th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.22 shots on goal an hour.

765th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

8 takeaways against 49 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.16 takeaways per giveaway

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.82 checks an hour.

714th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.56 times an hour.

713th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.43 times an hour.

271st most giveaways an hour

The points are not coming for him this season

Lundkvist produces 0.77 points an hour of ice time.

688th in the league

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.36 shots an hour of ice time.

336th in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.56 assists an hour of ice time.

646th in the league

The goals have dried up for him this season

He scores 0.21 goals an hour of ice time.

624th in the league

He takes about as many penalties as anyone

He takes 1.12 penalty minutes an hour.

582nd most penalty minutes an hour

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

16.4% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

21 of 128 attempts, 222nd of 241 defencemen

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

16.4% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

21 attempts from inside the home plate, 220th of 241 defencemen

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

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

54 of 128 attempts, 203rd of 241 defencemen

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

21.9% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

28 attempts, 1 goals

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

76.6% of his attempts come from the right side.

8 left, 22 middle, 98 right

He barely shoots the puck across a whole season

Lundkvist has taken 128 shot attempts this season.

43 on goal, 28 missed, 54 blocked, 169th of 241 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 42.9 feet.

128 located attempts, 166th of 241 defencemen

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

62.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

46 of 74 unblocked, 145th of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

49.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

63 long-range attempts, 137th of 241 defencemen

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 8.96 attempts an hour of ice time.

128 attempts in 857 minutes, 124th of 245 defencemen

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Lundkvist has scored 2 times on Connor Hellebuyck this season, more than on any other goaltender.

2 goals on 7 attempts, 28.6%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Jordan Binnington has turned him away every time: 7 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Jets this season.

9 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Connor Hellebuyck: 7 attempts, 2 goals.

28.6% conversion

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

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 5.9% of them go in.

1 goals on 17 attempts

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

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

1 goals on 21 close attempts, 46th of 221 defencemen

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Lundkvist has 3 goals off 3.5 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 34.5 feet out, and the longest went in from 66.

3 goals located by coordinate

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 6.5% of the shots he puts on goal.

3 goals on 46 shots, 87th of 241 defencemen

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