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Left wing · #25

Elmer Soderblom

Detroit Red Wings Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
203 cm
Weight
115 kg
Born
Gothenburg, SWE
Draft
2019, round 6, #159 (DET)

Career · 4 seasons

Games
107
Goals
16
Points
32
TOI per game
11:52
xGF% (5v5)
51.7%
Goals above expected
−1.9
ShowAll teamsDetroit Red WingsPittsburgh Penguins

Season by season

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

2022–23DET21538012:043016.7%03.654.3%
After a break: 2024–25DET264711+213:223810.5%05.649.8%
2025–26DET39213−410:41424.8%05.050.9%
2025–26PIT205510+311:572718.5%03.653.0%
2025–26All teams597613−111:076910.1%08.651.7%
2026–27PIT1000012:390–00.172.1%
Total2 teams107161632+111:5213711.7%017.951.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.820406080100
10m11m12m13m14m20406080100Game

Player card

Model-based

How 4 seasons 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 /600.7653rd pct
  • Assists /600.7631st pct
  • ixG /600.8464th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.943rd pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.7%72nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%44th pct
  • Relative xGF%+2.983rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1962nd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:5227th pct
  • PP time share8.3%32nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts48.5%37th pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Jimmy VeseyNYR0.85
  2. Brandon TanevSEA/UTA0.82
  3. Eric RobinsonCAR0.82
  4. Hudson Fasching0.79
  5. Josh Archibald0.78
  6. Cole KoepkeWPG0.77

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.

−1.9 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed35.6 km/h87th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph223rd pct
  • Hardest shot45.6 km/h3rd pct
  • Distance skated3 km5th pct
  • Offensive-zone time45.0%76th 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

35.7 km/h35th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

343536373822–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 35.5 km/h, 34th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 35.0 km/h, 16th percentile (26 games)2025–26: 35.7 km/h, 35th percentile (59 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.278th pct

▼ −0.6 since 2024–25

24681022–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 6.9, 68th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 8.8, 79th percentile (26 games)2025–26: 8.2, 78th percentile (59 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km56th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 15.6 km, 61st percentile (21 games)2024–25: 16.1 km, 81st percentile (26 games)2025–26: 15.6 km, 56th percentile (59 games)

Hardest shot

149.2 km/h90th pct

▲ +4.4 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015522–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 140.1 km/h, 35th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 144.9 km/h, 73rd percentile (26 games)2025–26: 149.2 km/h, 90th percentile (59 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.6%46th pct

▲ +0.3 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262023–24: no NHL games2022–23: 43.2%, 65th percentile (21 games)2024–25: 41.3%, 41st percentile (26 games)2025–26: 41.6%, 46th percentile (59 games)