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Defence · #78

Emil Lilleberg

Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Sarpsborg, NOR
Draft
2021, round 4, #107 (ARI)

Career · 2023–24 to 2026–27

Games
164
Goals
5
Points
36
TOI per game
16:05
xGF% (5v5)
48.9%
Goals above expected
−1.5

Season by season

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

2023–24TBL37055−1516:12310.0%01.045.2%
2024–25TBL7611819−115:17462.2%02.948.0%
2025–26TBL504812+1517:18439.3%02.652.0%
2026–27TBL1000010:3010.0%00.179.6%
Total1 team16453136−116:051214.1%06.548.9%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080100120140160
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Player card

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

3rd pair

36th 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

3rd pair
  • Goals /600.1125th pct
  • Assists /600.7157th pct
  • ixG /600.1536th pct
  • Shots /602.7514th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.9%47th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.5%70th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.79th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3178th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game16:0533rd pct
  • PP time share0.5%10th pct
  • PK time share24.3%46th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%17th 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.

−1.5 goals above expected

024620406080100120140160Game

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

−10−50+5+10+15

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 speed35.4 km/h96th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot125.2 km/h31st pct
  • Distance skated3 km1st pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.5%35th 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

35.1 km/h41st pct

▼ −1.1 km/h since 2024–25

3434.53535.53636.523–2424–2525–262023–24: 35.9 km/h, 71st percentile (37 games)2024–25: 36.1 km/h, 76th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 35.1 km/h, 41st percentile (50 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.270th pct

▼ −0.1 since 2024–25

0123423–2424–2525–262023–24: 3.2, 88th percentile (37 games)2024–25: 2.3, 75th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 2.2, 70th percentile (50 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km32nd pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.223–2424–2525–262023–24: 13.1 km, 20th percentile (37 games)2024–25: 13.3 km, 21st percentile (76 games)2025–26: 13.3 km, 32nd percentile (50 games)

Hardest shot

144.3 km/h30th pct

▼ −2.5 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516023–2424–2525–262023–24: 147.5 km/h, 39th percentile (37 games)2024–25: 146.8 km/h, 44th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 144.3 km/h, 30th percentile (50 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.4%32nd pct

▼ −1.1 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 41.9%, 55th percentile (37 games)2024–25: 41.5%, 46th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 40.4%, 32nd percentile (50 games)