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Defence · #3

John Klingberg

Dallas Stars Anaheim Ducks Minnesota Wild Toronto Maple Leafs Edmonton Oilers San Jose Sharks(traded during the season)
Age
34
Shoots
Right
Height
188 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Gothenburg, SWE
Draft
2010, round 5, #131 (DAL)

Career · 2014–15 to 2025–26

Games
56
Goals
10
Points
27
TOI per game
20:28
xGF% (5v5)
49.3%
Goals above expected
+4.6

Season by season

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

2014–15DAL65112940+521:509811.2%125.853.8%
2015–16DAL76104858+2222:411715.8%2210.953.5%
2016–17DAL80133649+223:2112410.5%179.349.2%
2017–18DAL8285967+1024:042043.9%2311.455.2%
2018–19DAL64103545+624:321536.5%208.251.5%
2019–20DAL5862632−1022:101205.0%145.649.8%
2020–21DAL5372936−1522:421086.5%175.952.2%
2021–22DAL7464147−2822:131394.3%208.450.4%
2022–23ANA5081624−2820:527810.3%65.137.8%
2022–23MIN17279+319:56345.9%41.544.8%
2022–23All teams67102333−2520:371128.9%106.639.2%
2023–24TOR14055−720:33140.0%20.843.1%
2024–25EDM11134017:15195.3%00.846.9%
2025–26SJS56101727−1320:287912.7%95.449.3%
Total6 teams70092351443−5322:251,3416.9%16679.250.2%

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)
00.20.40.60.811020304050
17m18m19m20m21m22m23m1020304050Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2014–15 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

86th 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 /600.3591st pct
  • Assists /601.3497th pct
  • ixG /600.3091st pct
  • Shots /605.1383rd pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)50.2%64th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.9%74th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.263rd pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5926th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game22:2593rd pct
  • PP time share59.9%97th pct
  • PK time share7.0%16th pct
  • Quality of competition24.7%81st 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Mark StreitPHI0.98
  2. Rasmus DahlinBUF0.96
  3. Quinn HughesVAN/MIN0.96
  4. Thomas ChabotOTT0.96
  5. Erik KarlssonOTT/SJS/PIT0.96
  6. Vince DunnSTL/SEA0.95

Finishing

Model-based

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.

+4.6 goals above expected

02468101020304050Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 speed33.5 km/h22nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph933rd pct
  • Hardest shot150.7 km/h72nd pct
  • Distance skated278 km59th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.8%89th 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

33.5 km/h7th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

32333435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 34.9 km/h, 42nd percentile (74 games)2022–23: 35.1 km/h, 44th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 34.1 km/h, 17th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 32.8 km/h, 1st percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 33.5 km/h, 7th percentile (56 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.58th pct

▲ +0.2 since 2024–25

012321–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 1.8, 62nd percentile (74 games)2022–23: 1.8, 62nd percentile (67 games)2023–24: 1.0, 29th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 0.3, 5th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 0.5, 8th percentile (56 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.6 km97th pct

▼ −0.2 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.0 km, 77th percentile (74 games)2022–23: 14.6 km, 98th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 14.8 km, 99th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 14.8 km, 98th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.6 km, 97th percentile (56 games)

Hardest shot

150.7 km/h62nd pct

▲ +2.3 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 142.4 km/h, 13th percentile (74 games)2022–23: 146.5 km/h, 31st percentile (67 games)2023–24: 132.3 km/h, 2nd percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 148.4 km/h, 54th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 150.7 km/h, 62nd percentile (56 games)

Offensive-zone time

44.8%90th pct

▲ +3.6 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.3%, 83rd percentile (74 games)2022–23: 42.0%, 56th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 44.8%, 85th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 41.1%, 41st percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 44.8%, 90th percentile (56 games)