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Jamie Oleksiak
Seattle Kraken Defense
Six-seven and 252 pounds, the second-heaviest man in this edition, and 82 games of it.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-13 | DAL | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.0 | 14:50 |
| 2013-14 | DAL | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 17:47 |
| 2014-15 | DAL | 36 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 2.8 | 13:24 |
| 2015-16 | DAL | 19 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.0 | 12:43 |
| 2016-17 | DAL | 41 | 5 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 15.2 | 16:13 |
| 2017-18 | DAL/PIT | 68 | 5 | 12 | 17 | +7 | 87 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 6.2 | 16:40 |
| 2018-19 | PIT/DAL | 57 | 4 | 8 | 12 | +5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 7.3 | 14:44 |
| 2019-20 | DAL | 69 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -6 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 4.0 | 15:49 |
| 2020-21 | DAL | 56 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -3 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 84 | 7.1 | 20:29 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 72 | 1 | 16 | 17 | -1 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 1.1 | 19:20 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 75 | 9 | 16 | 25 | +13 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 76 | 11.8 | 19:15 |
| 2023-24 | SEA | 82 | 2 | 13 | 15 | -2 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 1.8 | 19:39 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 598 | 36 | 93 | 129 | -4 | 453 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 673 | 5.3 | 17:24 |
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
82 games, 2 goals and 13 assists for 15 points, none on the power play, 37 penalty minutes, 19:39 a night and minus-2. He took 49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,341 minutes, the 51st percentile, and his ice went 51-57 against an expectation of 55.47-55.86.
Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and one more conceded than they called for. Two goals on 108 shots is a 1.9 per cent finishing rate, the third-lowest of anybody in this edition who shot a hundred times.
The Finesse Game
142 attempts at a median of 48 feet with 62 per cent of them from beyond forty and 16 per cent from inside twenty, 104 of those on goal, converted at 1.9 per cent against a career 5.35 across 673 shots.
One power-play goal in 598 career games. There is no offensive dimension here and the club does not ask for one; the puck goes off the wall or up the boards and 93 career assists across twelve seasons is what that produces.
The Physical Game
He is 6-7 and 252 — the second-heaviest man in this edition, behind Nikita Zadorov — and took 37 penalty minutes.
453 career penalty minutes in 598 games. There is no version of the net front he does not own; at that size he moves men out of the blue paint without appearing to try, and the reach takes away the cross-ice pass that a smaller defenceman has to guess at.
The Intangibles
Fourteenth overall in 2011 by Dallas, twelve seasons, three organisations, and 129 points in 598 games.
A career minus-4 and 82 games last season, the third time he has played more than 70. He is 31 and does exactly one thing, and the club that finished eighth in the league at suppressing chances wanted him doing it every night.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,341 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.8%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.4%
- 39th 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: 51 for, 57 against. Expected: 55.5 and 55.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 points of one another. 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.
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 — 68 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1341 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, 2023-24
- The club
- SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,341 minutes at five-on-five — 92nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will Borgen | 49.9% | 49.5% | 49.0% |
| Yanni Gourde | 47.0% | 51.2% | 50.7% |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | 53.2% | 48.4% | 50.4% |
49.9% together, 49.5% for him apart and 49.0% for Borgen apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
142 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 46 feet. 15% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 62% from beyond forty.