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Centre · #94

Linus Karlsson

Vancouver Canucks
Age
26
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
81 kg
Born
Landsbro, SWE
Draft
2018, round 3, #87 (SJS)

Career · 2023–24 to 2026–27

Games
110
Goals
18
Points
45
TOI per game
12:11
xGF% (5v5)
48.7%
Goals above expected
−3.9

Season by season

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

2023–24VAN4000010:0940.0%01.252.5%
2024–25VAN23336+510:562810.7%24.650.6%
2025–26VAN79152035−2812:3111612.9%415.648.8%
2026–27VAN4044014:4670.0%00.637.5%
Total1 team110182745−2312:1115511.6%621.948.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.8120406080100
10m12m14m16m20406080100Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2023–24 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

70th 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.8160th pct
  • Assists /601.2172nd pct
  • ixG /600.9880th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.926th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.7%45th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.3%54th pct
  • Relative xGF%+6.397th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.5492nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:1133rd pct
  • PP time share27.7%57th pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.0%59th pct
  • Quality of competition24.4%53rd 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

  1. Philip Tomasino0.77
  2. Egor ChinakhovCBJ/PIT0.75
  3. Justin BrazeauMIN/PIT0.74
  4. Alex Bump0.73
  5. Michael BuntingNSH0.69
  6. Luke EvangelistaNSH0.65

Faceoffs

How often Karlsson wins the draw over 2023–24 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 624+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

29.6%

21–50 · below the 624 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

30.6%

Opponents won 51.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 48.9% against them.

Wins above average

−14

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

Draws per game

1.5

71 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

29%7 · −1.30%4 · –39%33 · +1.525%4 · 0.020%10 · −3.00%2 · –67%3 · +1.213%8 · −0.5Attacking 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 zone35.1% 13–24
  • Neutral zone21.7% 5–18
  • Defensive zone27.3% 3–8

By strength

  • Even strength30.6% 15–34
  • Power play27.3% 6–16

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +29 after a win, 0 after a loss. Each win was worth -0.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2023–24922.2%21.5%
2024–25520.0%17.6%
2025–265129.4%31.1%
2026–27650.0%51.6%

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.

−3.9 goals above expected

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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 speed32.3 km/h10th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph19th pct
  • Hardest shot130.2 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated15 km70th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.1%14th 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

36.2 km/h55th pct

▲ +3.1 km/h since 2024–25

3234363823–2424–2525–262023–24: 33.0 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 33.1 km/h, 0th percentile (23 games)2025–26: 36.2 km/h, 55th percentile (79 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.09th pct

▲ +1.3 since 2024–25

024681023–2424–2525–262023–24: 3.0, 20th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 0.7, 1st percentile (23 games)2025–26: 2.0, 9th percentile (79 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km7th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

131415161723–2424–2525–262023–24: 14.1 km, 2nd percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 14.4 km, 5th percentile (23 games)2025–26: 14.5 km, 7th percentile (79 games)

Hardest shot

134.7 km/h30th pct

▲ +2.4 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016023–2424–2525–262023–24: 118.4 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 132.3 km/h, 16th percentile (23 games)2025–26: 134.7 km/h, 30th percentile (79 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.9%63rd pct

▲ +0.6 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 42.7%, 61st percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 42.3%, 56th percentile (23 games)2025–26: 42.9%, 63rd percentile (79 games)