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Nils Lundkvist

Dallas Stars

Nils Lundkvist

DALDefenceJersey number #5

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2025-26 regular season

Games played
52
Goals
3
Assists
8
Points
11

How good

Among 509 defencemen, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every defenceman who played in those seasons · Sample: 251 games

No production figure in the top quarter of his pool.

Production

Production: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points330.23
Goals270.04
Assists390.18
Shots on goal411.06
Power-play points320.01

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 509 defencemen, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits180.59
Blocked shots270.88
Penalty minutes310.35

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: 15 over 25 games
  • 2022-23: 67 over 60 games
  • 2023-24: 38 over 59 games
  • 2024-25: 34 over 39 games
  • 2025-26: 48 over 52 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 74.3, a full-season pace
Blocked shots, 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 Dallas Stars games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
19.1
Goals
3.8
Assists
15.3
Shots on goal
88.7
Power-play points
1.0
Hits
49.5
Blocked shots
74.3
Penalty minutes
29.6

Based on 251 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 Dallas Stars 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

2 more attempts came from outside the offensive zone and are not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 3 where a league-average finisher would score 2.1 from his chances: 0.9 more.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink3 G · 2.1 avg · +0.9 · 39 GP

  2. 2024-250 G · 2.1 avg · −2.1 · 32 GP

  3. 2023-242 G · 2.9 avg · −0.9 · 48 GP

  4. 2022-236 G · 4.6 avg · +1.4 · 55 GP

  5. 2021-221 G · 1.3 avg · −0.3 · 22 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
2025-262.13+0.93974
2024-252.10−2.13280
2023-242.92−0.948104
2022-234.66+1.455129
2021-221.31−0.32243

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

Playoffs

Playoffs, by season
SeasonGAP
2025-2640220.50216:44
2023-24120110.0844:28

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

Even strength
3 goals, 8 assists, 11 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
Apr 25@ MIN, playoff game100001210:32
Apr 22@ MIN, playoff game000012023:06
Apr 20vs MIN, playoff game002001015:25
Apr 18vs MIN, playoff game100012017:55
Apr 15@ BUF000001020:26
Apr 7vs CGY001003014:00
Apr 4vs COL000000013:43
Apr 2vs WPG000000015:39
Mar 31@ BOS100000017:53
Mar 29@ PHI000000017:56

PO = playoff game.

Markets · latest captured, not current

Apr 7 vs Calgary Flames · 8:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.04%