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William Karlsson

Vegas Golden Knights

William Karlsson

VGKForwardJersey number #71

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2026-27 regular season

Games played
1
Goals
0
Assists
0
Points
0

As of Oct 2, 6:09 AM ET · updated each morning

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 342 games

Top quarter of his pool in shots on goal and points. Top quarter in blocked shots, which describes his role rather than his quality.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points840.60
Goals820.24
Assists840.36
Shots on goal862.04
Power-play points740.10

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits80.45
Blocked shots810.72
Penalty minutes90.18

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: 0.52 over 67 games
  • 2022-23: 0.65 over 82 games
  • 2023-24: 0.86 over 70 games
  • 2024-25: 0.55 over 53 games
  • 2025-26: 0.50 over 14 games
  • 2026-27 to date: 0.00 over 1 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 0.60
Points per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the smaller dot is the season to date; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 projection, the per-game rate the projections board uses. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Vegas Golden Knights games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
50.4
Goals
20.5
Assists
29.9
Shots on goal
171.7
Power-play points
8.2
Hits
38.1
Blocked shots
60.7
Penalty minutes
15.4

Based on 342 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 Vegas Golden Knights 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

3 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 4 where a league-average finisher would score 3.5 from his chances: 0.5 more.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink4 G · 3.5 avg · +0.5 · 12 GP

  2. 2024-259 G · 13.8 avg · −4.8 · 53 GP

  3. 2023-2430 G · 22.6 avg · +7.4 · 69 GP

  4. 2022-2314 G · 21.4 avg · −7.4 · 79 GP

  5. 2021-2212 G · 18.3 avg · −6.3 · 65 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
2025-263.54+0.51238
2024-2513.89−4.853182
2023-2422.630+7.469238
2022-2321.414−7.479235
2021-2218.312−6.365192

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).

From the last 7 days · newest first

News

  1. Transaction

    Golden Knights Re-Sign Original Misfit William Karlsson Through 2029 (external site)

    The Hockey News - Las Vegas Golden Knights via Yahoo Sports ·

    In this story: William Karlsson, Vegas Golden Knights

    Also reported by: Associated Press via Yahoo Sports (external site)

All news about William Karlsson

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2026-2710000.00117:26
2025-26144370.503015:09
2024-2553920290.5511917:01
2023-24703030600.8617517:36
2022-23821439530.6516117:28
2021-22671223350.5213518:17

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

Even strength
2 goals, 3 assists, 5 points
Power play
1 goal, 0 assists, 1 point
Shorthanded
1 goal, 0 assists, 1 point

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
Sep 29vs CHI100000017:26
Jun 11@ CAR, playoff game10000008:43
Jun 9vs CAR, playoff game111010016:53
Jun 6vs CAR, playoff game201021024:09
Jun 4@ CAR, playoff game200001019:07
Jun 2@ CAR, playoff game210001018:05
May 26vs COL, playoff game400000017:34
May 24vs COL, playoff game211001017:22
May 22@ COL, playoff game200010017:42
May 20@ COL, playoff game100014021:11

PO = playoff game.

Markets · tonight

Oct 2 vs Anaheim Ducks · 10:00 PM ET

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

Lineup unconfirmed

Pre-game snapshotCaptured Oct 2, 7:52 PM ET· not updated during play

This game’s markets: the posted line and the model’s projection
MarketLineModel projection
Assists0.50.2
Shots on goal1.51.6

No probability shown for assists and shots on goal: these markets’ models are not calibrated well enough to state one.