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Jack Quinn

51 points and 191 shots, and still shooting from too far out.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2021-22	BUF	2	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	16.7	14:53
2022-23	BUF	75	14	23	37	-7	15	1	0	2	126	11.1	13:51
2023-24	BUF	27	9	10	19	-1	8	1	0	2	56	16.1	15:38
2024-25	BUF	74	15	24	39	-18	18	3	0	3	123	12.2	14:52
2025-26	BUF	82	20	31	51	+4	18	4	0	4	191	10.5	15:39
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	260	59	89	148	-22	59	10	0	11	502	11.8	14:54

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

20 goals and 31 assists in all 82 games — 51 points, plus-4, at 15:39 a night. 191 shots on goal, third-most on the club.

The Finesse Game

The release is quick and the hands are good, and the eighth pick in 2020 was taken for exactly that. What has not arrived is the willingness to use them from the right ice: only 26 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 30.

He shoots plenty and mostly from the outside, which produces 20 goals rather than the 30 the ability suggests. Zucker and Doan play on the same roster and take their shots from 14 and 17 feet. The difference is not talent.

31 assists says the playmaking is genuine and possibly the better half of him.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 185 pounds, and it is the thin part. 18 penalty minutes in 82 games. He is not going to win a puck on the wall against a defenceman and he does not put himself in the traffic where the shorter shots live.

The Intangibles

The on-ice results were respectable — 50.7 per cent of the expected goals, 61st percentile, with the goals 54-42 in his favour — on a club that finished 12th and 16th in expected goals for and against.

He is 24 and has played 260 games. 7 points in his last 10, 5 of them goals. There is a 30-goal scorer in here and it is going to require standing somewhere less comfortable.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,085 minutes

Expected goals: 50.7%; 61st pct
Shot attempts: 48.2%; 38th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 54 for, 42 against. Expected: 49.5 and 48.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

61st

The numbers rank him 23 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 23.0 mph; 86th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 2.48 a game
Distance: 2.57 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.7 mph; 67th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 2 assists, 41 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1085 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: BUF took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.7% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,085 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ryan McLeod	52.8%	46.4%	53.3%
Jason Zucker	53.6%	47.1%	48.8%
Bowen Byram	50.3%	51.0%	48.8%

52.8% together, 46.4% for him apart and 53.3% for McLeod apart. He was worse away from McLeod, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than McLeod did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

296 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 24 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 27% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.