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Mikael Backlund

C · Calgary Flames · career →

82 GP · 1,107 min 5v5
2025-26 · 5v5
Adjusts with rink filters
on-ice for◀ 5v5 offense
on-ice against5v5 defense ▶
How to read this map

One rink, both ends while Mikael Backlund is on the ice: what the team generates on the left, what it concedes on the right. Every attempt is a Gaussian bump of height = its model xG, summed per 60 minutes of ice time (a player's exposure is time, not games). The controls switch the surface (xG heatmapvs league, the league baseline per team-hour at the same strength) and the markers: × goal · on net · missed · small blocked — and own shots narrows the left end's markers to attempts Mikael Backlund took.

The page opens at 5v5; empty-net attempts are excluded throughout. On-ice membership comes from the shift charts; attempts without usable shift coverage are absent from both ends. Blocked-shot membership cannot be cross-checked against the play-by-play, so treat blocked-marker detail as softer than the rest.

Observed production

5v5 · on-ice
for against
axis spans ±200% of the forward cohort average · centre = average · right = more
Goalson-ice
40 60th pctl40 63rd pctl
Shotson-ice
522 87th pctl504 87th pctl
Attemptson-ice
1,086 84th pctl1,078 89th pctl
xGon-ice
42.3 67th pctl47.3 83rd pctl
xGF%share of on-ice xG
47.2%31st pctl
0% 50% = even split · gray = cohort middle 50% / 90% 100%

Percentiles rank against the other forwards over the display floor at the selected strength — a non-strength filter (rush, period, …) moves the bars but keeps that strength's spread as the backdrop.

Rolling on-ice xGF%

5v5 · on-ice
Per-game chance share while on the ice, smoothed. drag the slider to set the window

Model estimates

🔒 full season · not filtered
Season-long ratings — the filters above don't apply here.
creating   preventing   creates both  ·  paler = special teams  ·  solid = on-ice RAPM · hatched = skill rating  ·  ▽ = the total
Shooting
Conversionall shooter stages
outside the PP -2.10 goals vs averagepower play -0.31 goals vs average
-2.406th pctl
Offense
On-ice impactRAPM · xGF impact
-0.8533rd pctl
Defense
On-ice impactRAPM · xGA, flipped
+1.9287th pctl
BlockingBlocking · season-resolved
-0.0141st pctl
Special teams
Power playST RAPM · 3-season window
-0.2123rd pctl
Penalty killST RAPM · season-resolved
-1.455th pctl
Disciplinedrawn − taken
+0.0635th pctl
GAAgoals above average, this season
Offense impact -0.85 goals vs averageDefense impact +1.92 goals vs averageConversion · outside the PP -2.10 goals vs averagePower play -0.21 goals vs averageConversion · power play -0.31 goals vs averagePenalty kill -1.45 goals vs average
-2.9417th pctl
grouped by game state · 5v5 → power play → kill
−18.600 = league average+18.60

Ranked against forwards; the band behind each bar is that cohort's spread (p5–p95, middle half brighter, dashed median), so where a bar lands against its band is the rank — the ordinal beside it makes that exact. Zero is whichever baseline the toggle selects — the league-average skater, or replacement level — and every row, its band and its ordinal are all drawn against that one baseline, so the bar and the number can never describe different things. Each row's bar grows from zero, so its end IS its value; the composite is the rows stacked, running both ways from zero, so only it carries a to mark the net. The rows sum to the total with nothing left over. The per-shot rating is quality only: it says nothing about how many attempts a player generates or faces, which is what the attempts figure is for.

Usage & context

descriptive · not modeled
The job the coach handed Mikael Backlund, not how well it went. Not a modeled component: each is its own metric (minutes, a rate, a TOI share, or opponents'/teammates' net xG-RAPM), shown with a cohort percentile only where one exists, never added together. Not a grade. The deployment rows are measured over the same 5v5 stints the isolate is fit on (regular season + playoffs); ice time and the penalty rates are all situations, every game — penalties create non-5v5 time, so a 5v5 denominator would inflate every rate.
Time on iceall situations · min per game
17:54per game
Penalties takenminor penalties / 60
0.33per 60 · all situations
Penalties drawnminor penalties / 60
0.29per 60 · all situations
Zone startsOZS% · O-zone start share
29%offensive / (off + def)
Score stateTOI by game state
trail 33%tied 34%lead 33%
balanced
Competition (QoC)opponents' net xG-RAPM
+0.023xG/60
Teammates (QoT)teammates' net xG-RAPM
-0.036xG/60
On-the-flyshare of 5v5 TOI
62%of 5v5 TOI
0cohort average100 pctl

A skater absent from the fit counts as exactly cohort average (0) in QoC/QoT — the same claim ridge shrinkage makes. Penalty rates are descriptive only: taken-rate includes defensively correct penalties, and neither side is opponent- or deployment-adjusted. Nothing here is priced in goals.

Full table · all numbers
FamilyStatValue (current slice)
Observed ◆ filtered Goals on-ice for / against 40 / 40
Observed ◆ filtered xG on-ice for / against 42.3 / 47.3
Observed ◆ filtered Shots on-ice for / against 522 / 504
Observed ◆ filtered Attempts on-ice for / against 1,086 / 1,078
Observed ◆ filteredxGF% 47.2%
Modeled 🔒 season Conversion — all shooter stages -2.40 6th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ Conversion — 309 outside the PP 94th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ Conversion — 24 on the PP 48th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ Conversion — per-shot skill 4th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season On-ice impact — RAPM · xGF impact -0.85 33rd pctl
Modeled 🔒 season On-ice impact — RAPM · xGA, flipped +1.92 87th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Blocking — Blocking · season-resolved -0.01 41st pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ Blocking — 1,581 attempts faced 99th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ Blocking — per-shot suppression 24th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Power play — ST RAPM · 3-season window -0.21 23rd pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Penalty kill — ST RAPM · season-resolved -1.45 5th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Discipline — drawn − taken +0.06 35th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season GAA -2.94 17th pctl
ContextTime on ice — all situations · min per game 17:54 (78th pctl)
ContextPenalties taken — minor penalties / 60 0.33 (12th pctl)
ContextPenalties drawn — minor penalties / 60 0.29 (4th pctl)
ContextZone starts — OZS% · O-zone start share 29% (6th pctl)
ContextScore state — TOI by game state trail 33%, tied 34%, lead 33%
ContextCompetition (QoC) — opponents' net xG-RAPM +0.023 (92nd pctl)
ContextTeammates (QoT) — teammates' net xG-RAPM -0.036 (36th pctl)
ContextOn-the-fly — share of 5v5 TOI 62%

Observed values reflect the active rink filters; modeled values are fixed at their full-season fit.

On-ice numbers pair the regular-season shot set with shift-chart membership; skaters and goalies under the display floors are fit but not shown. Modeled rows come from the value artifact keyed to RAPM fit rapm__0cd6d075 on nested_structure__nested_structure_xg__d2ec2662 (the joint-xg structural baseline), with ratings from joint__baseline_xg__f3e3111e (as of 2026-06-14) — separate surfaces from the box-score xG model badged in the footer.