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Anders Lindback

#39 · Goalie · Nashville Predators

Born May 3, 1988 in Gavle, SWE · 6'6", 215 lb · Catches left · Drafted 207th overall in 2008 by NSH (round 7)

Compare with a similar player

The goalies closest to him in games played in 2011-12. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Brent Johnson PIT · 16 GP, 0.883 Jonathan Bernier LAK · 16 GP, 0.909 Peter Budaj MTL · 17 GP, 0.913 Ty Conklin DET · 15 GP, 0.884 Richard Bachman DAL · 18 GP, 0.910

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.

010202010-11: 22 games2210-112011-12: 16 games1611-122012-13: 24 games2412-132013-14: 23 games2313-142014-15: 26 games2614-152015-16: 19 games1915-16

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Cap hit
2010-11 NSH 22 576 527 49 0.915
2011-12 NSH 16 364 332 32 0.912
2012-13 TBL 24 642 579 63 0.902 $1.8M
2013-14 TBL 23 580 517 63 0.891 $1.8M
2014-15 DAL 10 256 224 32 0.875 $925K
2014-15 BUF 16 542 501 41 0.924
2015-16 ARI 19 443 396 47 0.894 $875K
6 seasons Career 130 3403 3076 327 0.904

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save %
2010-11 NSH 1 9 9 0 1.000
2013-14 TBL 4 118 104 14 0.881
2 seasons Playoffs 5 127 113 14 0.890

2011-12 season totals

GP Shots against Saves Goals against Save % Goals against per game
16 364 332 32 0.912 2.00

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2015-16 to 2015-16 $875K
2014-15 to 2014-15 $925K
2012-13 to 2013-14 $1.8M

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 2011-12 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.

2011-12 analytics

Rating

+8.0Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
+1.3Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
+4.3Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. 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.

-10-505102010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-16Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. 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. What these numbers mean

+4.3Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
36.3Expected goals againstfrom 532 unblocked attempts
32Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.912Save %0.900 expected from his shots
Goals saved +0.32 above expected per 60 minutes87th
Shot difficulty 6.8% chance per attempt faced89thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 47 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

0102030Game 10Expected 36.3Allowed 32

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 7, 2012 @ COL W 6-1 35 34 1 0.971 42:05
Apr 3, 2012 vs MIN W 2-1 (SO) 26 25 1 0.962 65:00
Mar 20, 2012 vs EDM L 3-6 12 10 2 0.833 39:13
Mar 18, 2012 @ ANA W 3-1 31 30 1 0.968 60:00
Mar 6, 2012 vs LAK L 4-5 4 4 0 1.000 15:55
Feb 28, 2012 @ CAR L 3-4 33 29 4 0.879 58:48
Feb 2, 2012 @ PHI L 1-4 27 24 3 0.889 59:17
Jan 17, 2012 @ NYR L 0-3 28 26 2 0.929 59:18
Dec 23, 2011 @ DAL L 3-6 21 19 2 0.905 46:58
Dec 20, 2011 @ WSH L 1-4 23 19 4 0.826 60:00
Dec 3, 2011 vs BUF L 2-3 14 11 3 0.786 58:00
Dec 1, 2011 @ VAN W 6-5 19 19 0 1.000 29:31
Nov 28, 2011 @ EDM W 2-1 18 17 1 0.944 60:00
Nov 22, 2011 vs EDM L 2-6 19 16 3 0.842 39:47
Nov 8, 2011 @ LAK L 3-4 30 26 4 0.867 58:33
Oct 20, 2011 @ VAN L 1-5 24 23 1 0.958 40:00