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Oscar Lindberg

#24 · Left wing · Ottawa Senators

Born Oct 29, 1991 in Skelleftea, SWE · 6'1", 202 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 57th overall in 2010 by PHX (round 2)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2016-17. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Cal Clutterbuck NYI · 20 P in 66 GP Lauri Korpikoski CBJ · 20 P in 69 GP Kevin Labanc SJS · 20 P in 55 GP Blake Comeau COL · 20 P in 77 GP Jannik Hansen SJS · 20 P in 43 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

010202014-15: 0 points014-152015-16: 28 points2815-162016-17: 20 points2016-172017-18: 11 points1117-182018-19: 20 points2018-19

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2014-15 NYR 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0.00
2015-16 NYR 68 13 15 28 12 43 114 132 0.41 $650K
2016-17 NYR 65 8 12 20 2 32 86 94 0.31 $650K
2017-18 VGK 63 9 2 11 -11 14 81 72 0.17 $1.7M
2018-19 VGK 35 4 8 12 3 24 66 65 0.34 $1.7M
2018-19 OTT 20 5 3 8 1 4 25 39 0.40
5 seasons Career 252 39 40 79 7 117 374 405 0.31

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2015-16 NYR 2 0 0 0 -1 2 5 6 0.00
2016-17 NYR 12 3 1 4 3 2 17 40 0.33
2017-18 VGK 3 0 1 1 1 2 5 9 0.33
3 seasons Playoffs 17 3 2 5 3 6 27 55 0.29

2016-17 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
65 8 12 20 2 32 86 94 0.31 9.3 10:50

Contract

$650KCap hit2016-17
$33KCap dollars per point20 points in 65 games
$3.772MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.2 goals above replacement
$685KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$35KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 664 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2017-18 to 2018-19 $1.7M
2015-16 to 2016-17 $650K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2016-17 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2016-17 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+1.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
+0.2Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+0.9Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence+0.3Even-strength defence+0.3Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties+0.3

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. A playoff run is too short to rank anyone on. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

00.511.522.52014-152015-162016-172017-182018-19Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

56.8Corsi for %117 attempts for, 89 against
+11.1CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
56.7Expected goals for %4.2 expected for, 3.2 against
+7.0xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
56.9Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
71.4Goals for %5 for, 2 against
102.8PDO7.9% shooting + 94.9% saves
30Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Michael Grabner · Oscar Lindberg · Jesper Fast1136:4656.469.21-0
Tanner Glass · Oscar Lindberg · J.T. Miller428:4449.149.62-2
Tanner Glass · Oscar Lindberg · Jesper Fast523:4462.845.91-0
Oscar Lindberg · Jesper Fast · J.T. Miller43:19100.0100.00-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

3Goalsnot counting empty-netters
1.4Expected goalsfrom 23 unblocked attempts
+1.6Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.68 expected goals per 60 minutes47th
Shot quality 5.9% chance per attempt16th
Finishing +1.6 goals above expected83rdOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 83 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest in these playoffs.

0123Goals 3Expected 1.4

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took in these playoffs, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 9, 2017 vs PIT W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:26
Apr 8, 2017 @ OTT L 1-3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 15:33
Apr 5, 2017 @ WSH L 0-2 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 12:26
Apr 2, 2017 vs PHI W 4-3 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 12:55
Mar 31, 2017 vs PIT L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 08:07
Mar 28, 2017 @ SJS L 4-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 09:22
Mar 26, 2017 @ ANA L 3-6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11:46
Mar 25, 2017 @ LAK W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 12:31
Mar 22, 2017 vs NYI L 2-3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 10:04
Mar 21, 2017 @ NJD L 2-3 (OT) 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 12:03
Mar 18, 2017 @ MIN W 3-2 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 09:59
Mar 17, 2017 vs FLA L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:16
Mar 13, 2017 vs TBL L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 10:25
Mar 12, 2017 @ DET W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 12:00
Mar 9, 2017 @ CAR L 3-4 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 10:19
Mar 7, 2017 @ FLA W 5-2 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 10:27
Mar 6, 2017 @ TBL W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:05
Mar 4, 2017 vs MTL L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 08:52
Mar 2, 2017 @ BOS W 2-1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 08:52
Feb 28, 2017 vs WSH L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:29
Feb 26, 2017 vs CBJ L 2-5 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11:58
Feb 25, 2017 @ NJD W 4-3 (OT) 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 11:36
Feb 23, 2017 @ TOR W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 09:09
Feb 21, 2017 vs MTL L 2-3 (SO) 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 07:41
Feb 19, 2017 vs WSH W 2-1 0 0 0 0 4 3 5 09:17
Feb 16, 2017 @ NYI L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 09:08
Feb 13, 2017 @ CBJ W 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 08:59
Feb 11, 2017 vs COL W 4-2 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 08:10
Feb 9, 2017 vs NSH W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 08:51
Feb 7, 2017 vs ANA W 4-1 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 10:33
Feb 5, 2017 vs CGY W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:45
Feb 2, 2017 @ BUF W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:25
Jan 25, 2017 vs PHI L 0-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 07:33
Jan 23, 2017 vs LAK W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 09:50
Jan 22, 2017 @ DET W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 07:47
Jan 19, 2017 @ TOR W 5-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 09:30
Jan 14, 2017 @ MTL L 4-5 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 08:07
Jan 13, 2017 vs TOR L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 10:51
Jan 7, 2017 @ CBJ W 5-4 1 1 2 2 0 3 1 14:47
Jan 4, 2017 @ PHI W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 14:40
Jan 3, 2017 vs BUF L 1-4 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 09:51
Dec 31, 2016 @ COL W 6-2 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 15:35
Dec 29, 2016 @ ARI W 6-3 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 12:08
Dec 27, 2016 vs OTT W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:21
Dec 23, 2016 vs MIN L 4-7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13:52
Dec 20, 2016 @ PIT L 2-7 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 13:44
Dec 18, 2016 vs NJD W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 13:18
Dec 17, 2016 @ NSH W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 2 6 14:13
Dec 15, 2016 @ DAL W 2-0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 12:38
Dec 13, 2016 vs CHI L 1-2 0 1 1 1 0 4 4 14:23
Dec 11, 2016 vs NJD W 5-0 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 13:41
Dec 9, 2016 @ CHI W 1-0 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 13:43
Dec 8, 2016 @ WPG W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:20
Dec 6, 2016 @ NYI L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 15:03
Dec 1, 2016 @ BUF L 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07:57
Nov 29, 2016 vs CAR W 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 08:07
Nov 23, 2016 vs PIT L 1-6 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:31
Nov 21, 2016 @ PIT W 5-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 10:35
Nov 18, 2016 @ CBJ L 2-4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 07:25
Nov 15, 2016 @ VAN W 7-2 0 1 1 -1 4 0 1 11:09
Nov 13, 2016 @ EDM W 3-1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 09:49
Oct 30, 2016 vs TBL W 6-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:16
Oct 28, 2016 @ CAR L 2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:24
Oct 26, 2016 vs BOS W 5-2 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 10:41
Oct 23, 2016 vs ARI W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:37