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Pontus Aberg

#46 · Left wing · Toronto Maple Leafs

Born Sep 23, 1993 in Stockholm, SWE · 6'0", 194 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 37th overall in 2012 by NSH (round 2)

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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.

05101520252016-17: 2 points216-172017-18: 16 points1617-182018-19: 25 points2518-192019-20: 1 points119-20

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2016-17 NSH 15 1 1 2 -2 4 12 9 0.13 $781K
2017-18 NSH 37 2 6 8 8 8 39 16 0.22 $650K
2017-18 EDM 16 2 6 8 1 2 31 8 0.50
2018-19 ANA 37 11 8 19 -10 14 74 31 0.51 $650K
2018-19 MIN 22 1 5 6 -4 6 27 14 0.27
2019-20 TOR 5 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 0.20 $700K
4 seasons Career 132 17 27 44 -7 34 187 79 0.33

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 NSH 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
2016-17 NSH 16 2 3 5 -1 2 23 13 0.31
2 seasons Playoffs 18 2 3 5 -1 2 23 15 0.28

2015-16 season totals

This player has no games in this season.

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2019-20 to 2019-20 $700K
2018-19 to 2018-19 $650K
2017-18 to 2017-18 $650K
2016-17 to 2016-17 $781K

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 2015-16 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.

2015-16 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.1Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.2Even-strength defence+0.0Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties+0.0

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.

-1.5-1-0.500.511.52016-172017-182018-192019-20Goals 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

30.0Corsi for %6 attempts for, 14 against
-19.8CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
15.0Expected goals for %0.0 expected for, 0.2 against
-41.4xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
10.0Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 0 against
100.0PDO0.0% shooting + 100.0% saves
0Attempts 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
Calle Jarnkrok · Pontus Aberg · Viktor Arvidsson210:5131.617.60-0
Paul Gaustad · Pontus Aberg · Viktor Arvidsson10:400.00.00-0
Paul Gaustad · Miikka Salomaki · Pontus Aberg10:250.00.00-0
Craig Smith · Ryan Johansen · Pontus Aberg10:240.00.00-0

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.