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Defence · #4 · Rookie

Theo Lindstein

Age
21
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
85 kg
Born
Gavle, SWE
Draft
2023, round 1, #29 (STL)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
20
Goals
2
Points
5
TOI per game
15:37
xGF% (5v5)
52.1%
Goals above expected
+0.6

Season by season

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

2025–26STL17224+615:462010.0%01.454.6%
2026–27STL3011+114:4920.0%00.136.8%
Total1 team20235+715:37229.1%01.452.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.4101214161820
15m16m16m17m101214161820Game

Player card

How 2025–26 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 pair

64th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.3887th pct
  • Assists /600.5833rd pct
  • ixG /600.2777th pct
  • Shots /604.2373rd pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)52.1%72nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)51.2%68th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.135th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.3571st pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game15:3720th pct
  • PP time share2.2%44th pct
  • PK time share7.9%13th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%39th 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.

+0.6 goals above expected

00.511.525101520Game

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 speed33.0 km/h53rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot114.2 km/h9th pct
  • Distance skated10 km30th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.5%25th 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

34.9 km/h34th pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 34.9 km/h, 34th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.892nd pct

2025–26 only

01234525–262025–26: 3.8, 92nd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.7 km99th pct

2025–26 only

1313.51414.51525–262025–26: 14.7 km, 99th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

137.7 km/h9th pct

2025–26 only

13514014515015516025–262025–26: 137.7 km/h, 9th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

42.7%66th pct

2025–26 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%25–262025–26: 42.7%, 66th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)