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Simon Edvinsson

Detroit Red Wings D Age 23 ELC

2025-26· Data as of July 27, 2026

$894K AAV
1 Years Left
ELC Expiry

Status derived from CBA rules; edge cases (Group 6 UFA, 10.2(c), 35+ contracts) may be misclassified. Years remaining are not yet tracked.

88 Value Score
88th percentile among defensemen
Verdict Full-season sample

Surplus value ~$3.9M/yr

$277K $5.4M
$894K Cap Hit 0.9% of cap
$4.7M Open-mkt value 4.6% of cap

Pending restricted free agent (RFA) His contract expires this season, but as a restricted free agent his current team keeps his signing rights and can match rival offers. This is a rating, priced in dollars — what the model rates his on-ice value at, not a forecast of what he'll sign for. See the projected signing price on the Free-Agent board.

Realizable today Entry-level rights let the team realize about +$1.0M of this as signable/tradeable surplus; the rest is locked-in cost control — real value the team enjoys but can't directly cash out while he's signed this cheap.

Surplus value +$3.9M +3.7% of cap

Track record Judged as-of — with only the model and data available each season — this deal has returned +$4.5M over 2 seasons through 2024-25. See how past calls held up →

Career ledger 2022-23 onward · 3 seasons in window

+0.06 cap-years of surplus ≈ +$5.4M

Judged as-of — each season priced with only the model and data available then — Simon Edvinsson has delivered 0.06 cap-years more value than he's been paid across our data window. One cap-year = a full season's salary-cap ceiling.

Career still active — this total will keep moving.

Low-confidence total — thin or short seasons drive a large share of the swing, so read it with caution.

Why this verdict

Why this verdict

Where this contract sits vs. the market

Each dot is a real free-agent signing (2015-2026): 613 comparable defense deals. The line is the going rate at each talent level, the market convention we price against. Real signings scatter around it; comparable players don’t all sign for the identical number.

Pay, % of cap
← lower talent higher talent →
Cap hit $894K Market rate $4.5M +$3.6M vs. the open market

The page’s headline verdict, +$1.0M/yr, refines this by adjusting the market rate for age, contract term, and restricted-free-agent status. The plot compares to the raw market curve; the verdict adjusts it.

This player is on an entry-level contract. Part of the gap below the curve is CBA cost control (teams pay restricted players below open-market value by rule), not evidence of a market inefficiency.

Structurally similar active deals

This contract sits in the Young / bridge region of the contract map. These are the active contracts whose shape is nearest to it, closest in spend, term, age, and role (not how they aged):

Comparable by the shape of the deal, not by team or playing style. Archetypes are broad regions on a continuum; a deal near a boundary is genuinely in-between.

Career Trajectory
VALUE SCORE050100PAY DELTA+$1.0M−$1.0M2022-232023-242024-252025-26
Reading this verdict

The range reflects pricing-model error, not measurement — fair value is a modeled estimate. The sample badge reflects games played, not dollar accuracy.

Defenseman impact uses a deployment-adjusted model (RAPM) that isolates each player from his linemates, competition, and zone starts at even strength. It covers 5-on-5 play and venue only — special-teams value and shot-blocking beyond its effect on 5-on-5 expected goals are not captured, and two defensemen who play almost all their minutes together cannot be fully separated.

Outlook

Outlook

Aging Curve

Approaching his peak

Production index for defensemen. The dot marks Simon at age 23.

Empirical production-by-age index (delta-method WAR fit, 2010-11+). Illustrative of typical aging; the dollar model prices age with a separate, softer decline.

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2 seasons · +$4.5M

How this deal's surplus has accumulated — each elapsed season judged as-of, scored with only the model and data available that season (no hindsight) and priced at the player's age that year. This retrospective runs through 2024-25; the current-season verdict is shown above. The waterfall builds the running total left to right; the subtotal below is a tally to date, not a forecast. Single-season value is noisy, and early-year deficits partly reflect a lower salary cap — the same AAV was a smaller share of the cap then — while the model tends to underprice an elite player's early-career season, so read the early seasons with extra caution.
Partial record: part of this deal falls outside our as-of coverage, so only its 2023-24–2024-25 seasons are graded here.

$02023-24: +$978K (low sample)+$978K23-24low2024-25: +$3.5M+$3.5M24-25Subtotal through 2024-25: +$4.5M+$4.5MTotal
2 seasons · subtotal through 2024-25 +$4.5M
Full stats

Full stats

Career xG IMPACT/60 0.1

On-ice expected-goals impact per 60 — RAPM-adjusted (teammate- and competition-adjusted) where career 5v5 ice time clears the reliability floor, a raw on-off xG differential otherwise. Not wins. The RAPM figure is career-pooled (one value across seasons); the on-off fallback shows the most recent season.

Production

Counted outcomes — totals and rates that carry shooting and goaltending luck.

SeasonGPGAPTOI
2025-26729162522.4
2024-25787243121.1
2023-241611218.3
2022-23920217.1
On-ice & expected

On-ice shot shares and modeled expected goals — these stabilize faster than goal totals, but xG is an estimate, not a count.

SeasonCF%xGxGF
2025-2651.76.571.8
2024-2548.75.074.7
2023-2448.50.712.5
2022-2343.50.36.5
CF%
Corsi-for percentage — share of shot attempts while on the ice
xG
Individual expected goals from the player's own shot attempts
xGF
On-ice expected goals — team's xG while this player is on the ice