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Defence · #6

Lian Bichsel

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
201 cm
Weight
108 kg
Born
Olten, CHE
Draft
2022, round 1, #18 (DAL)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
91
Goals
8
Points
17
TOI per game
15:23
xGF% (5v5)
48.8%
Goals above expected
+5.1

Season by season

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

2024–25DAL38459+214:533910.3%01.449.2%
2025–26DAL50448+615:402714.8%01.548.6%
2026–27DAL3000−116:520–00.048.3%
Total1 team918917+715:236612.1%02.948.8%

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)
00.10.20.30.4102030405060708090
13m14m15m16m17m18m19m102030405060708090Game

Player card

How 2024–25 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

29th 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 /600.3485th pct
  • Assists /600.3911th pct
  • ixG /600.1218th pct
  • Shots /602.8318th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.8%44th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.1%37th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.936th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3566th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game15:2323rd pct
  • PP time share0.7%18th pct
  • PK time share14.4%29th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%34th 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.

+5.1 goals above expected

0246820406080Game

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

−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 speed34.0 km/h77th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot130.9 km/h49th pct
  • Distance skated11 km36th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.1%41st 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

34.2 km/h19th pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2024–25

3434.53535.53636.524–2525–262024–25: 35.0 km/h, 42nd percentile (38 games)2025–26: 34.2 km/h, 19th percentile (50 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.127th pct

▼ −0.7 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5324–2525–262024–25: 1.8, 61st percentile (38 games)2025–26: 1.1, 27th percentile (50 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.5 km42nd pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.224–2525–262024–25: 14.0 km, 73rd percentile (38 games)2025–26: 13.5 km, 42nd percentile (50 games)

Hardest shot

151.5 km/h64th pct

▼ −1.3 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015524–2525–262024–25: 152.7 km/h, 71st percentile (38 games)2025–26: 151.5 km/h, 64th percentile (50 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.3%31st pct

▼ −0.9 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 41.2%, 43rd percentile (38 games)2025–26: 40.3%, 31st percentile (50 games)