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Jack Quinn
Buffalo Sabres Right Wing
Nine goals in twenty-seven games at twenty-two, and eighth overall four years ago.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 104 | 24 | 34 | 58 | -8 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 188 | 12.8 | 14:20 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
9 goals and 10 assists in 27 games — 19 points at 15:38 a night, minus-1, with 1 power-play goal and 2 game-winners on 56 shots, converting at 16.07 per cent, and 8 penalty minutes. An Achilles injury took the rest of the season.
50.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 343 minutes, the 59th percentile. His ice went 19-17 against an expectation of 15.53-15.02.
The Finesse Game
56 attempts at a median of 25 feet, with 35 per cent from inside 20 and 14 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 16.07 per cent.
The release is quick and accurate and the hands in tight are the best on this roster — nine goals in twenty-seven games is a forty-goal rate and it is not going to hold, but the ability that produced it is real. Twenty-four goals in 104 career games.
He is the one forward here who can make a pass a penalty kill does not expect, and ten assists in twenty-seven games says so.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 185 and light. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he avoids contact rather than absorbing it.
8 penalty minutes in 27 games and 23 in 104 for his career is one of the cleanest rates on the roster, and it is the rate of a player who is never in a battle.
The Intangibles
Eighth overall in 2020, out of Ottawa in the junior league, and 104 games and 58 points at 23 across three interrupted seasons.
The Achilles is the story of the career so far — a torn one in 2022 cost him most of a year, and this season ended at twenty-seven games. He is the fifth top-ten pick on this roster and the one whose ceiling nobody has yet seen for eighty-two games.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“**He is the one forward here who can make a pass a penalty kill does not expect**, and ten assists in twenty-seven games says so.”
“**He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he avoids contact rather than absorbing it.**”
“**He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he avoids contact rather than absorbing it.**”
“**8 penalty minutes in 27 games and 23 in 104 for his career** is one of the cleanest rates on the roster, and it is the rate of a player who is never in a battle.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 343 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.8%
- 60th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52%
- 72nd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 17 against. Expected: 15.5 and 15.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 21 points above where the report does. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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, 2023-24 · 27 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.11 a game
- Distance
- 2.58 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.4 mph
- 47th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 343 minutes at five-on-five
- Dylan Cozens69%
- Zach Benson23%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- BUF took 48.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.8% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 343 minutes at five-on-five — 9th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dylan Cozens | 52.8% | 44.8% | 47.5% |
| JJ Peterka | 59.2% | 43.1% | 50.9% |
| Owen Power | 60.4% | 45.2% | 47.8% |
52.8% together, 44.8% for him apart and 47.5% for Cozens apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
83 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 26 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.