8 G · 9 A · 88 GP
0.193 P/GP · 0 PPP · 15:20 ATOI
Dallas Stars#6Active
Lian Bichsel
D · 6′7″ / 237 lb · Shoots L · Olten, CHE · Age 22 · 2022 #18 by DAL
17Career points
0.193Career P/GP
88Games played
8Goals
2 seasonsNHL service
Overview
2025-268points
The latest read.
8 points in 50 games in 2025-26. Career: 17 points across 88 games.
50GP
4goals
4assists
8points
27shots
0PP points
The career ledger.
Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing
0 G · 1 A · 24 GP
0.042 P/GP · 0 PPP · 13:04 ATOI
The arc.
Points and points per game by seasonNHL season log · 2 seasons
When it mattered.
Postseason against the field. A smaller, self-selected population, so it is marked on the scale rather than filled626 all-time peers
Playoff career · 24 GP · 0 G · 1 A · 1 pts (0.042 P/GP)
60.0
30.0
40.4
What this draft slot returns.
Observed careers at the same pick, across all positionsdraft history · 2026-08-14 00:35 UTC
2022 draft#18round 1 · DAL
29Players in sample
89.7%Reached the NHL
Most games in this sample: Brooks Orpik (2000, PIT), 1,035 NHL games.
Sample: 29 players taken #18, across all positions, from draft classes through 2018 on file. Historical totals reflect the 2026-08-14 00:35 UTC snapshot; Lian Bichsel's games use this page's NHL career record. Active careers can still grow.
These are observed outcomes, not a forecast for Lian Bichsel. Exact-slot rates require at least 12 players. Draft Value methodology.
Against history.
Percentile against every NHL peercareer totals · position-aware
The height of the career.
Peak season and the best five41+ GP qualified seasons
2024-25 peak: 38 GP / 4 G / 5 A / 9 Pts / 0.237 P/GP · 14:53 TOI
| Best five | GP | G | A | PTS | P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 50 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0.160 |
| Prime-five | 50 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0.160 |
Last five games.
Most recent official appearancesofficial game log
2026-04-30@ MINPlayoff13:55 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2026-04-28vs MINPlayoff13:46 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2026-04-25@ MINPlayoff21:36 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2026-04-22@ MINPlayoff22:27 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2026-04-20vs MINPlayoff14:17 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S
Career
Where he stands right now.
2025-26 league position and career shapeNHL league browser 2025-26
Season by season.
Every NHL season · peak highlighted, split seasons kept apart2 regular-season rows
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Dallas Stars | 50 | 4 | 4 | 8 | +6 | 0 | 27 |
| 2024-25Peak | Dallas Stars | 38 | 4 | 5 | 9 | +2 | 0 | 39 |
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Dallas Stars | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024-25 | Dallas Stars | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Before the NHL.
Junior, college, European and international rowsofficial NHL landing · season totals
| Season | League | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | AHL | Texas Stars | 28 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Texas Stars | 16 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2023-24 | SHL | Rögle BK | 29 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Texas Stars | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-24 | SHL | Rögle BK | 15 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022-23 | EHT | Switzerland | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-23 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | SHL | Leksands IF | 42 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022-23 | WJC-20 | Switzerland U20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022-23 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022-23 | SHL | Leksands IF | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021-22 | Champions HL | Leksands IF | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021-22 | Hlinka Gretzky Cup | Switzerland U18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-22 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2021-22 | SHL | Leksands IF | 29 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021-22 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020-21 | NL | EHC Biel-Bienne | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020-21 | U20-Elit | EHC Biel-Bienne Spirit U20 | 45 | 5 | 23 | 28 |
| 2020-21 | WJC-18 | Switzerland U18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | U20-Elit | EHC Biel-Bienne Spirit U20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020-21 | U20-Elit | Biel-Bienne U20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-20 | U17-Elit | Biel-Bienne U17 | 31 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2019-20 | YOG | Switzerland U16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-20 | U17-Elit | Biel-Bienne U17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Showing the 24 most recent pre-NHL rows of 36.
The comparable set.
Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers
Selection rule. Defencemen only; career games played within ±20% of 88 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 70 to 106); then the five nearest by career P/GP, ties broken by the closest games played. The pool is the 1,162 players in this site's NHL dossier set who own at least one official regular-season game: 28 of them cleared the band.
Sam DickinsonD · 2024 #11 · active72 GP · 1 G · 13 A · 14 P0.194 P/GP · +0.001Vladislav KolyachonokD · 2019 #52 · active87 GP · 5 G · 12 A · 17 P0.195 P/GP · +0.002Ian MooreD · 2020 #67 · active70 GP · 4 G · 9 A · 13 P0.186 P/GP · −0.007Kevin KorchinskiD · 2022 #7 · active105 GP · 6 G · 13 A · 19 P0.181 P/GP · −0.012Lucas CarlssonD · 2016 #110 · retired73 GP · 4 G · 11 A · 15 P0.205 P/GP · +0.012
Similar career shape is not similar player. The rule matches volume and rate only; it knows nothing about era, position within the group, usage or role, and two careers can land on the same line for opposite reasons.
Game log
Compare observed minutes, shots and finishing across game windows →
Official game ledger
Every 2025-26 appearance.
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Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
Measured puck and player tracking · 2025-26 regular seasonNHL Edge tracking · api-web.nhle.com · coverage from 2021-22 · fetched 2026-08-17
Tracked axisMeasuredPercentile, 0 to 100Pct
Top shot speed94.1mph73.4
151.5 km/h equivalent · league average 88.9 mph
Max skating speed21.3mph34.9
34.2 km/h equivalent · league average 21.6 mph
Distance skated176.6km42.3
109.7 mi equivalent · league average 214.3 km
Most distance in one game4.8km32.7
3.0 mi equivalent · league average 5.2 km
Bursts over 20 mph14bursts39.5
league average 31.3
Where the shift was spent
Offensive zone time40.3%29.8
league average 42.3
Neutral zone time17.5%25.3
league average 16.8
Defensive zone time42.2%25.3
league average 40.9
Shots on goal, by location
All shots on goal27shots35.2
league average 62.1 shots
High-danger shots on goal1shots29.6
league average 4.0 shots
Method: every figure and every percentile on this panel is published by the NHL Edge endpoint. This site converts nothing and ranks nothing. The percentile column is the league's own, against the tracked population for 2025-26. Speeds arrive in mph and km/h; distance is read in kilometres with the mile conversion stated beside it. Tracked seasons on file for this player: 2024-25, 2025-26.
The shot map.
Where his shots came from · 2025-26 regular season · NHL Edge areasNHL Edge shot-location detail · api-web.nhle.com · fetched 2026-08-18
Hover, tap or focus an area for its exact figures. Net at the top; left and right as the shooter sees them.
AreaShotsShare of hisPct
Center Point112 G57th
L Point50 G52th
L Circle42 G59th
R Point30 G41th
Outside L20 G50th
Beyond Red Line10 G28th
Low Slot10 G31th
Behind the Net00 G0th
Crease00 G0th
High Slot00 G0th
L Corner00 G0th
L Net Side00 G0th
Offensive Neutral Zone00 G0th
Outside R00 G0th
R Circle00 G0th
R Corner00 G0th
R Net Side00 G0th
1high danger0 G · 0.0%
4mid danger2 G · 50.0%
19long range2 G · 10.5%
Method: 27 shots on goal in 2025-26, placed by the NHL into the areas it names; each area is shaded by its share of his total, so this map is his distribution and not a comparison to any other player. The percentile column is the league's own for shots from that area, where it publishes one; nothing is converted, ranked or combined. Areas as the NHL names them; the drawing is to rink proportion with the net at the top.
Opponent atlas.
Career results by opponentlocal NHL AI Opponent Atlas
Career volume leaders
Career vs.NSH2 points5 GP · 2 G · 0 A7 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.VAN2 points6 GP · 2 G · 0 A7 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.SEA1 points5 GP · 0 G · 1 A4 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.EDM1 points10 GP · 0 G · 1 A8 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.COL0 points12 GP · 0 G · 0 A8 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.MIN0 points12 GP · 0 G · 0 A10 shots · 0 PP pointsBest points-per-game matchups
Pace vs.NSH0.40 P/GP5 GP · 2 G · 0 A7 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.VAN0.33 P/GP6 GP · 2 G · 0 A7 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.SEA0.20 P/GP5 GP · 0 G · 1 A4 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.EDM0.10 P/GP10 GP · 0 G · 1 A8 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.COL0.00 P/GP12 GP · 0 G · 0 A8 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.MIN0.00 P/GP12 GP · 0 G · 0 A10 shots · 0 PP pointsFrozen from the local NHL AI Opponent Atlas. These are descriptive career splits through the source snapshot, not a projection of the next matchup and not evidence that the opponent caused the result.
Against the goaltenders.
Goaltenders faced, from play-by-playNHL play-by-play · 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 4,192 games · fetched 2026-08-18
Lian Bichsel has faced 32 goaltenders in this dataset but none of them for the 20 shots on goal a published rate requires here. The counts exist; the rates would be noise, so they are not printed.
The source receipt.
Official basics plus named researchOfficial NHL API Web player landing, with local nhl api draft cache reuse
Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.
Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.
The room.
Every current Dallas Stars teammate, one click awaycanonical player directory