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Defence · #2

Alexander Edler

Vancouver Canucks Los Angeles Kings(traded during the season)
Age
40
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Ostersund, SWE
Draft
2004, round 3, #91 (VAN)

Career · 2009–10 to 2022–23

Games
853
Goals
85
Points
379
TOI per game
22:41
xGF% (5v5)
48.8%
Goals above expected
+7.5

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2009–10VAN7653742022:391613.1%197.2–
2010–11VAN5182533+1324:171216.6%176.354.7%
2011–12VAN82113849023:522284.8%2210.545.6%
2012–13VAN4581422−523:511137.1%105.149.1%
2013–14VAN6371522−3923:171783.9%128.248.3%
2014–15VAN7482331+1323:591754.6%148.052.5%
2015–16VAN5261420−824:271115.4%94.747.6%
2016–17VAN6861521−2024:191384.3%45.846.0%
2017–18VAN7062834−1824:171723.5%157.045.6%
2018–19VAN56102434+324:341287.8%175.147.8%
2019–20VAN5952833+1322:371184.2%53.747.3%
2020–21VAN52088−820:54990.0%02.345.1%
2021–22LAK4131619+1818:28545.6%02.258.1%
2022–23LAK642911−114:46563.6%01.450.1%
Total2 teams85385294379−3922:411,8524.6%14477.548.8%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.511.5100200300400500600700800
15m20m25m30m100200300400500600700800Game

Player card

How 2009–10 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

87th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.2678th pct
  • Assists /600.9185th pct
  • ixG /600.2477th pct
  • Shots /605.7490th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.8%45th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.2%63rd pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.464th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3950th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game22:4193rd pct
  • PP time share44.9%89th pct
  • PK time share45.4%88th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%90th pct

Percentiles among defencemen with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+7.5 goals above expected

020406080100200400600800Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−200+20+40+60

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed32.8 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph19th pct
  • Hardest shot147.8 km/h50th pct
  • Distance skated199 km46th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.0%39th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian defencemanMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

32.8 km/h1st pct

▼ −1.3 km/h since 2021–22

32333435363721–2222–232021–22: 34.1 km/h, 19th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 32.8 km/h, 1st percentile (64 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.11st pct

▼ −0.3 since 2021–22

012321–2222–232021–22: 0.3, 4th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 0.1, 1st percentile (64 games)

Distance skated per 60

12.7 km4th pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2021–22

1212.51313.51414.521–2222–232021–22: 13.3 km, 26th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 12.7 km, 4th percentile (64 games)

Hardest shot

147.8 km/h37th pct

▼ −3.3 km/h since 2021–22

14014515015516021–2222–232021–22: 151.1 km/h, 48th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 147.8 km/h, 37th percentile (64 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.0%39th pct

▼ −0.7 points since 2021–22

39%40%41%42%43%44%21–2222–232021–22: 41.7%, 52nd percentile (41 games)2022–23: 41.0%, 39th percentile (64 games)