Centre · #17

Lias Andersson

New York Rangers

Los Angeles Kings(traded during the season)

Age: 27
Shoots: Left
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 84 kg
Born: Smogen, SWE
Draft: 2017, round 1, #7 (NYR)

Career · 2017–18 to 2022–23

Games: 110
Goals: 7
Points: 17
TOI per game: 10:52
xGF% (5v5): 41.5%
Goals above expected: −4.5

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Season by season

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


2017–18	NYR	7	1	1	2	+1	11:57	5	20.0%	0	0.4	32.1%
2018–19	NYR	42	2	4	6	−13	10:43	41	4.9%	0	3.4	41.1%
2019–20	NYR	17	0	1	1	−8	9:33	13	0.0%	0	0.9	36.7%
2020–21	LAK	23	3	3	6	−4	12:04	23	13.0%	0	3.3	44.3%
2021–22	LAK	20	1	1	2	−7	10:37	29	3.4%	1	3.4	46.1%
2022–23	LAK	1	0	0	0	−1	8:37	1	0.0%	0	0.1	23.2%
Total	2 teams	110	7	10	17	−32	10:52	112	6.3%	1	11.5	41.5%

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)

Player card

Model-based

How 2017–18 to 2022–23 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

4th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

1st line
2nd line
3rd line
4th line
Extra / AHL

Scoring

Extra / AHL

Goals /600.3512th pct
Assists /600.5012th pct
ixG /600.5821st pct
Goals above expected−4.526th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL

xGF% (5v5)41.5%5th pct
CF% (5v5)43.3%6th pct
Relative xGF%−4.814th pct
Penalty diff /600.0042nd pct

Usage

4th line

TOI per game10:5220th pct
PP time share3.9%25th pct
Offensive zone starts47.9%32nd pct
Quality of competition23.0%13th pct

Percentiles among forwards 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

Faceoffs

How often Andersson wins the draw over 2017–18 to 2022–23, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1124+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.6%

185–239 · below the 1124 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.6%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

−27

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

4.8

424 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

Offensive zone44.0% 55–70
Neutral zone43.1% 62–82
Defensive zone43.9% 68–87

By strength

Even strength43.8% 170–218
Power play44.4% 4–5
Shorthanded40.7% 11–16

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +14 after a win, −24 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Cedric Paquette42.9% 6–8
Chris Tierney30.8% 4–9
Anthony Cirelli9.1% 1–10
Eric Fehr54.5% 6–5
Kevin Rooney40.0% 4–6
Stephen Gionta55.6% 5–4
Luke Johnson44.4% 4–5
Derek Ryan37.5% 3–5

Season by season

Season	Draws	Win rate	Against average
2017–18	47	40.4%	41.3%
2018–19	190	44.2%	44.1%
2019–20	88	46.6%	46.9%
2020–21	52	38.5%	37.9%
2021–22	47	44.7%	43.9%

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.

−4.5 goals above expected

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

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 speed31.5 km/h1st pct
Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
Hardest shot102.9 km/h5th pct
Distance skated2 km2nd pct
Offensive-zone time37.6%5th pct

Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards 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 forwardMiddle 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

31.5 km/h0th pct

▼ −3.0 km/h since 2021–22

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −5.7 since 2021–22

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km50th pct

▼ −0.8 km since 2021–22

Hardest shot

102.9 km/h0th pct

▼ −43.0 km/h since 2021–22

Offensive-zone time

37.6%6th pct

▼ −1.8 points since 2021–22