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Defence · #44

Axel Sandin-Pellikka

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Gallivare, SWE
Draft
2023, round 1, #17 (DET)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
71
Goals
7
Points
21
TOI per game
16:08
xGF% (5v5)
45.8%
Goals above expected
+2.9

Season by season

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

2025–26DET6871421−2016:136810.3%73.945.1%
2026–27DET3000014:3060.0%00.262.3%
Total1 team7171421−2016:08749.5%74.145.8%

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)
00.20.40.60.810203040506070
12m14m16m18m20m10203040506070Game

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

3rd pair

34th 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 /600.3784th pct
  • Assists /600.7354th pct
  • ixG /600.2263rd pct
  • Shots /603.8765th pct

Play-driving

3rd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)45.8%20th pct
  • CF% (5v5)50.4%63rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.016th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.8411th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:0824th pct
  • PP time share34.3%81st pct
  • PK time share7.7%12th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%36th 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.

+2.9 goals above expected

0246810203040506070Game

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 speed33.1 km/h56th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph257th pct
  • Hardest shot133.0 km/h55th pct
  • Distance skated10 km31st pct
  • Offensive-zone time51.5%99th 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

34.6 km/h27th pct

2025–26 only

3434.53535.53636.525–262025–26: 34.6 km/h, 27th percentile (68 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.546th pct

2025–26 only

0.511.522.5325–262025–26: 1.5, 46th percentile (68 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.2 km86th pct

2025–26 only

1313.51414.525–262025–26: 14.2 km, 86th percentile (68 games)

Hardest shot

157.7 km/h86th pct

2025–26 only

14014515015516025–262025–26: 157.7 km/h, 86th percentile (68 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.3%75th pct

2025–26 only

39%40%41%42%43%44%25–262025–26: 43.3%, 75th percentile (68 games)