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Centre · #52

Emil Bemstrom

Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Nykoping, SWE
Draft
2017, round 4, #117 (CBJ)

Career · 2019–20 to 2024–25

Games
242
Goals
34
Points
75
TOI per game
11:30
xGF% (5v5)
48.7%
Goals above expected
−2.3

Season by season

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

2019–20CBJ56101020−1012:169710.3%88.050.6%
2020–21CBJ20325+212:512810.7%13.757.0%
2021–22CBJ416511−110:31629.7%05.648.5%
2022–23CBJ5571522−1112:07957.4%69.646.5%
2023–24CBJ325611−512:554910.2%35.045.1%
2023–24PIT2432508:47348.8%23.548.5%
2023–24All teams568816−511:08839.6%58.546.1%
2024–25PIT1401108:20130.0%01.052.2%
Total2 teams242344175−2511:303789.0%2036.348.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200
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Player card

How 2019–20 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

53rd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

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

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.7353rd pct
  • Assists /600.8847th pct
  • ixG /600.7857th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.342nd pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.7%49th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.5%58th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.775th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0952nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:3025th pct
  • PP time share25.3%57th pct
  • Offensive zone starts62.4%73rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%31st 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).

Faceoffs

How often Bemstrom wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1129+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.6%

21–32 · below the 1129 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

37.6%

Opponents won 48.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 52.0% against them.

Wins above average

−7

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

Draws per game

1.2

53 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

57%7 · +1.644%9 · +0.837%19 · −2.20%2 · –75%4 · +1.433%6 · +3.60%1 · –20%5 · +1.0Attacking zone →← Defending zone

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

By zone

  • Offensive zone39.3% 11–17
  • Neutral zone47.4% 9–10
  • Defensive zone16.7% 1–5

By strength

  • Even strength39.2% 20–31
  • Power play50.0% 1–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: −5 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–201330.8%30.2%
2021–22450.0%46.9%
2022–231741.2%39.9%
2023–241637.5%33.9%
2024–25366.7%63.8%

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.

−2.3 goals above expected

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+100

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 speed34.3 km/h15th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1925th pct
  • Hardest shot134.1 km/h35th pct
  • Distance skated31 km18th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.5%43rd 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

34.3 km/h6th pct

▼ −2.8 km/h since 2023–24

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 37.1 km/h, 86th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 36.1 km/h, 56th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 37.1 km/h, 87th percentile (56 games)2024–25: 34.3 km/h, 6th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.886th pct

▼ −0.2 since 2023–24

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 8.6, 79th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 6.8, 68th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 10.0, 87th percentile (56 games)2024–25: 9.8, 86th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km64th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 16.0 km, 71st percentile (41 games)2022–23: 15.4 km, 50th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 59th percentile (56 games)2024–25: 15.8 km, 64th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

134.1 km/h21st pct

▼ −20.8 km/h since 2023–24

13014015016021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 141.0 km/h, 38th percentile (41 games)2022–23: 147.1 km/h, 69th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 155.0 km/h, 93rd percentile (56 games)2024–25: 134.1 km/h, 21st percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.5%45th pct

▲ +0.5 points since 2023–24

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 40.3%, 33rd percentile (41 games)2022–23: 40.2%, 29th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 41.1%, 40th percentile (56 games)2024–25: 41.5%, 45th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)