Niklas Kronwall

#55 · Defence · Detroit Red Wings

Born Jan 12, 1981 in Stockholm, SWE · 6'0", 194 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 29th overall in 2000 by DET (round 1)

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Stanley Cup NHL Champion 2007-08

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2015-16. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Kevin Klein NYR · 26 P in 69 GP

Cody Ceci OTT · 26 P in 75 GP

Mathew Dumba MIN · 26 P in 81 GP

David Savard CBJ · 25 P in 65 GP

Johnny Boychuk NYI · 25 P in 70 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.

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

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Cap hit
2003-04	DET	20	1	4	5	5	16	18	28	0.25
2005-06	DET	27	1	8	9	11	28	28	36	0.33	$990K
2006-07	DET	68	1	21	22	0	54	104	92	0.32	$990K
2007-08	DET	65	7	28	35	25	44	108	93	0.54	$3M
2008-09	DET	80	6	45	51	2	50	121	96	0.64	$3M
2009-10	DET	48	7	15	22	5	32	68	86	0.46	$3M
2010-11	DET	77	11	26	37	5	36	131	113	0.48	$3M
2011-12	DET	82	15	21	36	-2	38	141	133	0.44	$3M
2012-13	DET	48	5	24	29	-5	44	67	42	0.60	$4.75M
2013-14	DET	79	8	41	49	0	44	110	93	0.62	$4.75M
2014-15	DET	80	9	35	44	-4	40	101	91	0.55	$4.75M
2015-16	DET	64	3	23	26	-21	30	61	93	0.41	$4.75M
2016-17	DET	57	2	11	13	-7	32	67	77	0.23	$4.75M
2017-18	DET	79	4	23	27	-14	36	76	82	0.34	$4.75M
2018-19	DET	79	3	24	27	-5	40	71	84	0.34	$4.75M
15 seasons	Career	953	83	349	432	-5	564	1272	1239	0.45

Playoffs

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

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP
2005-06	DET	6	0	3	3	0	2	7	2	0.50
2007-08	DET	22	0	15	15	16	18	21	41	0.68
2008-09	DET	23	2	7	9	4	33	32	59	0.39
2009-10	DET	12	0	5	5	2	12	15	19	0.42
2010-11	DET	11	2	4	6	5	4	15	26	0.55
2011-12	DET	5	0	2	2	-2	4	9	3	0.40
2012-13	DET	14	0	2	2	-1	4	13	26	0.14
2013-14	DET	5	1	1	2	-1	0	9	11	0.40
2014-15	DET	6	0	2	2	-1	4	4	10	0.33
2015-16	DET	5	0	1	1	3	8	9	4	0.20
10 seasons	Playoffs	109	5	42	47	25	89	134	201	0.43

2015-16 season totals

GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Shooting %	Avg TOI
64	3	23	26	-21	30	61	93	0.41	4.9	22:01

Contract

$4.75MCap hit2015-16

$183KCap dollars per point26 points in 64 games

-$897KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his

-$5.6MValueworth 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. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 668 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
			2012-13 to 2018-19			$4.75M
			2007-08 to 2011-12			$3M
			2005-06 to 2006-07			$990K

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 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-2.3Goals above replacement630th of 675 skaters, 213th of 230 defencemen

-0.4Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six

-7.0Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 230 ranked defencemen: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

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, and the rank beside it is among defencemen. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. 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.

On the ice

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

49.5Corsi for %866 attempts for, 883 against

-2.6CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

46.9Expected goals for %35.9 expected for, 40.7 against

-2.8xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

48.2Fenwick for %unblocked attempts

40.6Goals for %28 for, 41 against

98.4PDO6.2% shooting + 92.3% saves

77Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 561 skaters who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO and attempts taken are left plain, since neither is good or bad on its own.

Who he played with

Defence pair	GP	Time	CF%	xGF%	Goals
Niklas Kronwall · Mike Green	54	364:39	51.0	46.9	9-17
Niklas Kronwall · Jonathan Ericsson	46	319:25	47.8	45.2	12-12
Niklas Kronwall · Alexey Marchenko	40	146:11	47.3	48.8	2-6
Niklas Kronwall · Danny DeKeyser	27	70:02	42.3	45.3	1-3

The pairs 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 pairs 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

3.1Expected goalsfrom 88 unblocked attempts

-0.1Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals

Chances created 0.13 expected goals per 60 minutes29th

Shot quality 3.5% chance per attempt72nd

Finishing -0.1 goals above expected53rdOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of defencemen he is ahead of, among the 230 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

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 this season, 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, 2016	@ NYR	L 2-3	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	21:36
Apr 7, 2016	@ BOS	L 2-5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	14:59
Apr 6, 2016	vs PHI	W 3-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	20:50
Apr 2, 2016	@ TOR	W 3-2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	4	20:32
Apr 1, 2016	vs MIN	W 3-2	0	1	1	-1	0	1	2	21:07
Mar 29, 2016	@ MTL	L 3-4	0	1	1	-1	2	2	2	22:18
Mar 28, 2016	vs BUF	W 3-2	0	1	1	1	0	2	2	20:15
Mar 26, 2016	vs PIT	L 2-7	0	0	0	-1	0	0	1	18:46
Mar 24, 2016	vs MTL	W 4-3	0	0	0	-3	0	1	3	18:37
Mar 22, 2016	@ TBL	L 2-6	0	1	1	-3	2	1	1	16:47
Mar 19, 2016	@ FLA	W 5-3	0	2	2	1	0	2	0	22:29
Mar 12, 2016	vs NYR	W 3-2 (OT)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10:24
Mar 10, 2016	vs WPG	W 3-2	0	1	1	2	2	1	0	21:37
Mar 8, 2016	@ CBJ	L 3-5	0	0	0	-1	2	0	3	22:49
Mar 6, 2016	@ CHI	L 1-4	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	22:45
Mar 2, 2016	vs CHI	L 2-5	0	0	0	-1	2	1	0	20:24
Feb 29, 2016	@ DAL	W 3-2 (OT)	0	0	0	-1	2	1	3	21:13
Feb 27, 2016	@ COL	W 5-3	0	2	2	0	0	1	0	22:49
Feb 23, 2016	vs CBJ	W 2-1 (SO)	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	24:25
Jan 17, 2016	vs PHI	L 1-2 (SO)	1	0	1	1	2	1	1	21:38
Jan 14, 2016	@ ARI	W 3-2 (OT)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	23:17
Jan 11, 2016	@ LAK	L 2-4	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	18:43
Jan 10, 2016	@ ANA	W 2-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	23:45
Jan 7, 2016	@ SJS	W 2-1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	22:19
Jan 4, 2016	@ NJD	W 1-0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	21:35
Jan 2, 2016	@ BUF	W 4-3	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	20:42
Dec 31, 2015	vs PIT	L 2-5	0	1	1	-1	0	1	0	24:19
Dec 29, 2015	@ WPG	L 1-4	0	1	1	-2	2	0	1	18:06
Dec 28, 2015	@ MIN	L 1-3	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	24:07
Dec 26, 2015	@ NSH	W 3-2	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	24:17
Dec 22, 2015	vs NJD	L 3-4	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	24:27
Dec 20, 2015	vs CGY	W 4-2	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	24:54
Dec 18, 2015	vs VAN	L 3-4 (SO)	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	24:06
Dec 14, 2015	vs BUF	L 1-2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	19:20
Dec 11, 2015	@ NJD	L 2-3 (OT)	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	19:49
Dec 10, 2015	vs MTL	W 3-2	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	20:53
Dec 8, 2015	@ WSH	L 2-3 (SO)	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	24:29
Dec 5, 2015	vs NSH	W 5-4 (OT)	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	24:21
Dec 3, 2015	vs ARI	W 5-1	1	0	1	2	0	2	3	18:46
Dec 1, 2015	vs BUF	W 5-4 (SO)	0	1	1	0	0	1	4	22:54
Nov 29, 2015	vs FLA	L 1-2 (OT)	0	0	0	-2	0	2	2	22:15
Nov 27, 2015	vs EDM	W 4-3 (OT)	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	23:25
Nov 25, 2015	vs BOS	L 2-3 (OT)	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	26:48
Nov 21, 2015	@ STL	W 4-3 (OT)	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	23:40
Nov 20, 2015	vs LAK	W 3-2	0	0	0	-1	0	0	3	24:06
Nov 18, 2015	vs WSH	L 1-2 (OT)	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	22:17
Nov 16, 2015	@ OTT	W 4-3 (OT)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	23:44
Nov 14, 2015	@ BOS	L 1-3	0	1	1	-2	0	2	1	23:29
Nov 13, 2015	vs SJS	L 2-3	0	1	1	-1	0	1	1	22:04
Nov 10, 2015	vs WSH	W 1-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	22:16
Nov 8, 2015	vs DAL	L 1-4	0	1	1	-2	0	1	1	25:07
Nov 6, 2015	@ TOR	W 2-1 (OT)	0	0	0	1	0	0	8	25:27
Nov 3, 2015	vs TBL	W 2-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	20:38
Oct 31, 2015	@ OTT	W 5-3	0	2	2	1	2	0	2	20:01
Oct 30, 2015	vs OTT	L 1-3	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	25:48
Oct 27, 2015	vs CAR	L 1-3	0	0	0	-3	0	0	3	22:51
Oct 24, 2015	@ VAN	W 3-2 (OT)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	27:04
Oct 23, 2015	@ CGY	L 2-3 (OT)	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	24:35
Oct 21, 2015	@ EDM	L 1-3	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	24:34
Oct 17, 2015	@ MTL	L 1-4	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	23:00
Oct 16, 2015	vs CAR	L 3-5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	19:40
Oct 13, 2015	vs TBL	W 3-1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	23:15
Oct 10, 2015	@ CAR	W 4-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	22:24
Oct 9, 2015	vs TOR	W 4-0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	18:39