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Defence · #26

Erik Brannstrom

Ottawa Senators Vancouver Canucks(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Eksjo, SWE
Draft
2017, round 1, #15 (VGK)

Career · 2018–19 to 2024–25

Games
266
Goals
7
Points
69
TOI per game
16:52
xGF% (5v5)
49.7%
Goals above expected
−9.5

Season by season

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

2018–19OTT2000018:040–00.135.2%
2019–20OTT31044−914:51380.0%11.947.3%
2020–21OTT3021113+316:21424.8%32.146.0%
2021–22OTT5301414−1719:46860.0%64.046.2%
2022–23OTT7421618+516:07742.7%14.054.5%
2023–24OTT7631720+516:35773.9%04.350.7%
2024–25VAN28358−414:56339.1%11.346.7%
Total2 teams294106777−1716:413502.9%1217.749.4%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250
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Player card

How 2018–19 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

62nd 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.1228th pct
  • Assists /600.8275th pct
  • ixG /600.2267th pct
  • Shots /604.2861st pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)49.4%56th pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.1%75th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.364th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5444th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:4144th pct
  • PP time share20.7%71st pct
  • PK time share19.3%38th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%26th 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.

−9.5 goals above expected

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed33.7 km/h21st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph726th pct
  • Hardest shot143.6 km/h40th pct
  • Distance skated101 km28th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.4%85th 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

33.7 km/h8th pct

▼ −1.2 km/h since 2023–24

333435363721–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 35.1 km/h, 49th percentile (53 games)2022–23: 35.5 km/h, 58th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 34.8 km/h, 37th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 33.7 km/h, 8th percentile (28 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.027th pct

▼ −0.5 since 2023–24

0.511.522.5321–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 1.0, 35th percentile (53 games)2022–23: 1.9, 64th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 1.5, 47th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 1.0, 27th percentile (28 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km94th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2023–24

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 13.8 km, 62nd percentile (53 games)2022–23: 14.2 km, 87th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 14.1 km, 83rd percentile (76 games)2024–25: 14.5 km, 94th percentile (28 games)

Hardest shot

143.6 km/h28th pct

▼ −3.2 km/h since 2023–24

14014515015516016521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 159.7 km/h, 88th percentile (53 games)2022–23: 149.7 km/h, 44th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 146.8 km/h, 35th percentile (76 games)2024–25: 143.6 km/h, 28th percentile (28 games)

Offensive-zone time

44.4%86th pct

▲ +3.1 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 43.6%, 77th percentile (53 games)2022–23: 43.1%, 70th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 41.3%, 42nd percentile (76 games)2024–25: 44.4%, 86th percentile (28 games)