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Defence · #57 · Rookie

Elias Salomonsson

Age
22
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
78 kg
Born
Skelleftea, SWE
Draft
2022, round 2, #55 (WPG)

2025–26

Games
32
Goals
1
Points
5
TOI per game
17:58
xGF% (5v5)
51.2%
Goals above expected
−1.1

Season

The regular-season line, by team for traded players.

2025–26WPG32145−617:58372.7%12.151.2%

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)
00.10.20.31015202530
16m17m18m19m20m21m1015202530Game

Player card

How this season compares with everyone else at the position, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd pair

68th 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 /600.1028th pct
  • Assists /600.4214th pct
  • ixG /600.2263rd pct
  • Shots /603.8664th pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)51.2%65th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.2%77th pct
  • Relative xGF%+4.891st pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4262nd pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game17:5842nd pct
  • PP time share7.9%58th pct
  • PK time share23.7%36th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%43rd 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.

−1.1 goals above expected

00.511.5251015202530Game

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

−8−6−4−20+2+4+6+8+10

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 speed35.2 km/h56th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1746th pct
  • Hardest shot143.6 km/h43rd pct
  • Distance skated135 km37th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.4%76th 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

35.2 km/h43rd pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 35.2 km/h, 43rd percentile (32 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.855th pct

2025–26 only

0.511.522.5325–262025–26: 1.8, 55th percentile (32 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.0 km76th pct

2025–26 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.225–262025–26: 14.0 km, 76th percentile (32 games)

Hardest shot

143.6 km/h28th pct

2025–26 only

14014515015525–262025–26: 143.6 km/h, 28th percentile (32 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.4%78th pct

2025–26 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%25–262025–26: 43.4%, 78th percentile (32 games)