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Aaron Ekblad

D · Florida Panthers · career →

72 GP · 1,187 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 Aaron Ekblad 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 Aaron Ekblad 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 ±118% of the defenseman cohort average · centre = average · right = more
Goalson-ice
54 68th pctl57 77th pctl
Shotson-ice
556 64th pctl542 64th pctl
Attemptson-ice
1,179 63rd pctl1,077 50th pctl
xGon-ice
51.8 65th pctl51.8 64th pctl
xGF%share of on-ice xG
50.0%55th pctl
0% 50% = even split · gray = cohort middle 50% / 90% 100%

Percentiles rank against the other defensemen 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. goals/60 vs cohort average · bar grows from average
Shootingfinishing · goals/60
+0.0267th pctl
↳ attempts
4,03792nd pctl
↳ shooting talent
+0.1289th pctl
own attempts × per-shot logit
OffenseRAPM · team xGF/60 impact
-0.0551st pctl
DefenseRAPM · team xGA/60 impact (sign-flipped)
-0.158th pctl
GAA/60goals above average / 60 · comprehensive
Shooting +0.02 goals/60Offense -0.05 goals/60Defense -0.15 goals/60
-0.1823rd pctl
the three rows above, stacked — shooting + offense + defense
−0.46average+0.46

Ranked against defensemen; 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. The per-shot rating is quality only: it says nothing about how many attempts a player generates or faces, which is what the attempts sub-row is for.

Usage & context

descriptive · not modeled
The job the coach handed Aaron Ekblad, 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
22:25per game
Penalties takenminor penalties / 60
1.00per 60 · all situations
Penalties drawnminor penalties / 60
0.48per 60 · all situations
Zone startsOZS% · O-zone start share
51%offensive / (off + def)
Score stateTOI by game state
trail 31%tied 37%lead 32%
balanced
Competition (QoC)opponents' net xG-RAPM
+0.009xG/60
Teammates (QoT)teammates' net xG-RAPM
+0.092xG/60
On-the-flyshare of 5v5 TOI
64%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 54 / 57
Observed ◆ filtered xG on-ice for / against 51.8 / 51.8
Observed ◆ filtered Shots on-ice for / against 556 / 542
Observed ◆ filtered Attempts on-ice for / against 1,179 / 1,077
Observed ◆ filteredxGF% 50.0%
Modeled 🔒 season Shooting — finishing · goals/60 +0.02 67th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ attempts (own attempts) 4,037 92nd pctl
Modeled 🔒 season ↳ shooting talent (per-shot logit) +0.12 89th pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Offense — RAPM · team xGF/60 impact -0.05 51st pctl
Modeled 🔒 season Defense — RAPM · team xGA/60 impact (sign-flipped) -0.15 8th pctl
Modeled 🔒 seasonGAA/60 -0.18 23rd pctl
ContextTime on ice — all situations · min per game 22:25 (81st pctl)
ContextPenalties taken — minor penalties / 60 1.00 (82nd pctl)
ContextPenalties drawn — minor penalties / 60 0.48 (62nd pctl)
ContextZone starts — OZS% · O-zone start share 51% (58th pctl)
ContextScore state — TOI by game state trail 31%, tied 37%, lead 32%
ContextCompetition (QoC) — opponents' net xG-RAPM +0.009 (65th pctl)
ContextTeammates (QoT) — teammates' net xG-RAPM +0.092 (89th pctl)
ContextOn-the-fly — share of 5v5 TOI 64%

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__c5b9b663 on flat__joint_structure_xg__4f64c88b (the joint-xg structural baseline), with ratings from joint__baseline_xg__42ccb89b (as of 2026-06-14) — separate surfaces from the box-score xG model badged in the footer.