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Erik Gustafsson

Los Angeles Kings

Erik Gustafsson

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
2
Goals
0
Assists
0
Points
0

How good

Among 509 defencemen, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every defenceman who played in those seasons · Sample: 285 games

Top quarter of his pool in power-play points and assists.

Production

Production: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points690.36
Goals410.06
Assists810.30
Shots on goal601.24
Power-play points890.13

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits280.74
Blocked shots150.82
Penalty minutes420.39

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

  • 2021-22: 45 over 59 games
  • 2022-23: 52 over 70 games
  • 2023-24: 63 over 76 games
  • 2024-25: 28 over 60 games
  • 2025-26: 2 over 2 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 62.4, a full-season pace
Hits, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 full-season pace from the projections board, the projected rate across the club's whole schedule, not a forecast of the total. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Los Angeles Kings games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
30.0
Goals
4.9
Assists
25.2
Shots on goal
104.5
Power-play points
11.1
Hits
62.4
Blocked shots
68.7
Penalty minutes
33.1

Based on 285 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Los Angeles Kings schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 0, level with the 0.0 a league-average finisher would score from his chances.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink0 G · 0.0 avg · 0.0 · 2 GP

  2. 2024-252 G · 4.1 avg · −2.1 · 49 GP

  3. 2023-246 G · 5.0 avg · +1.0 · 67 GP

  4. 2022-237 G · 7.0 avg · 0.0 · 66 GP

  5. 2021-223 G · 3.9 avg · −0.9 · 48 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-260.000.023
2024-254.12−2.149120
2023-245.06+1.067154
2022-237.070.066188
2021-223.93−0.948113

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2025-2620000.00318:44
2024-2560216180.306716:19
2023-2476625310.419317:23
2022-2370735420.6012219:46
2021-2259315180.317916:13

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Jan 31vs COL100010220:06
Nov 26vs NSH200011017:23
Mar 18@ WSH000000013:34
Mar 16vs VGK201000016:03
Mar 14@ CAR100020017:06
Mar 12vs BUF000012019:01
Mar 10@ OTT100000020:00
Mar 7@ WSH000012019:39
Mar 6vs UTA200000016:05
Mar 4vs CAR200013019:13

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