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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 2014-15. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Viktor Fasth EDM · 26 GP, 0.888 Robin Lehner OTT · 25 GP, 0.905 Andrew Hammond OTT · 24 GP, 0.941 Petr Mrazek DET · 29 GP, 0.918 John Gibson ANA · 23 GP, 0.914

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 WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Cap hit
2010-11 NSH 22 11522 576 527 49 2.60 0.915
2011-12 NSH 16 5800 364 332 32 2.42 0.912
2012-13 TBL 24 101010 642 579 63 2.90 0.902 $1.8M
2013-14 TBL 23 81221 580 517 63 2.90 0.891 $1.8M
2014-15 DAL 10 2800 256 224 32 3.71 0.875 $925K
2014-15 BUF 16 4820 542 501 41 2.76 0.924
2015-16 ARI 19 5710 443 396 47 3.11 0.894 $875K
6 seasons Career 130 455883 3403 3076 327 2.87 0.904

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2010-11 NSH 1 0000 9 9 0 0.00 1.000
2013-14 TBL 4 0300 118 104 14 3.92 0.881
2 seasons Playoffs 5 0300 127 113 14 3.69 0.890

2014-15 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
26 22 61620 798 725 73 3.11 0.909

Contract

$925KCap hitends in 2015, then UFA
-$643KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$1.6MValueworth 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 48 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2014-15, so this is its last season, after which he is an unrestricted free agent.

Season Cap hit
2014-15 $925K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

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 2014-15 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.

2014-15 analytics

Rating

-5.6Goals above replacement46th of 50 goalies
-0.9Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-11.8Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 50 ranked goalies: 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. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

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. Provisional: under 40 games it is more chance than player. 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

-11.8Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
61.2Expected goals againstfrom 1,088 unblocked attempts
73Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.909Save %0.923 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 49 goalies 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. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Goals saved -0.50 above expected per 60 minutes8th
Shot difficulty 5.6% chance per attempt faced6thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 49 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

0204060Game 10Game 20Allowed 73Expected 61.2

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 Decision Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 11, 2015 vs PIT L 0-2 L 38 36 2 0.947 57:09
Apr 10, 2015 @ CBJ L 2-4 L 39 36 3 0.923 58:44
Apr 6, 2015 vs CAR W 4-3 W 52 49 3 0.942 60:00
Apr 3, 2015 vs CHI L 3-4 L 36 32 4 0.889 59:12
Apr 1, 2015 vs TOR W 4-3 W 27 24 3 0.889 59:50
Mar 30, 2015 @ ARI W 4-1 W 29 28 1 0.966 60:00
Mar 28, 2015 @ COL L 3-5 12 10 2 0.833 19:49
Mar 23, 2015 @ DAL L 3-4 L 39 35 4 0.897 58:40
Mar 20, 2015 vs NJD L 1-3 L 27 24 3 0.889 60:00
Mar 17, 2015 @ BOS W 2-1 (SO) W 45 44 1 0.978 64:14
Mar 16, 2015 vs WSH L 3-4 (SO) OTL 38 35 3 0.921 64:45
Mar 14, 2015 vs NYR L 0-2 L 32 31 1 0.969 59:31
Mar 11, 2015 @ TOR L 3-4 (SO) OTL 34 31 3 0.912 64:56
Mar 7, 2015 @ WSH L 1-6 22 20 2 0.909 26:07
Mar 6, 2015 @ OTT L 2-3 L 37 34 3 0.919 58:47
Mar 3, 2015 @ TBL L 0-3 L 35 32 3 0.914 59:15
Feb 7, 2015 @ BUF L 2-3 L 24 21 3 0.875 57:56
Jan 15, 2015 vs WPG L 1-2 L 22 20 2 0.909 57:33
Jan 13, 2015 vs OTT W 5-4 W 36 34 2 0.944 49:30
Jan 6, 2015 vs CBJ L 2-4 L 20 16 4 0.800 57:51
Dec 21, 2014 @ EDM W 6-5 (SO) W 10 9 1 0.900 35:39
Nov 29, 2014 @ COL L 2-5 L 47 42 5 0.894 60:00
Nov 18, 2014 vs CAR L 4-6 L 9 7 2 0.778 21:32
Nov 8, 2014 vs SJS L 3-5 L 28 24 4 0.857 58:36
Oct 25, 2014 @ NYI L 5-7 L 28 22 6 0.786 59:00
Oct 11, 2014 @ NSH L 1-4 L 32 29 3 0.906 59:22