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Jamie Oleksiak
Seattle Kraken Defense
Six-foot-seven and 252 pounds — the heaviest defenceman in this edition — at eighteen and a half minutes a night.
| 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 | SEA | 82 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -2 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 6.1 | 18:47 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 680 | 40 | 106 | 146 | -6 | 487 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 739 | 5.4 | 17:34 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
4 goals and 13 assists in 82 games — 17 points at 18:47 a night, minus-2, with 34 penalty minutes.
46.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 20th percentile. His ice went 42-55 against an expectation of 44.02-50.48 — eight goals better than expected for and twelve worse against, on a top pairing.
The Finesse Game
66 attempts in 82 games at a median of 53 feet with 76 per cent from beyond 40 and 7 per cent from inside 20, and 4 goals. The shot exists and it is used to get the puck to the net.
13 assists. The first pass is simple and it is where the limitation is: under a heavy forecheck he chips it out rather than making a play, and the club’s exits get worse when he is the one making them.
The Physical Game
6-7 and 252 pounds — the heaviest defenceman in this edition and among the largest men in the league. Nobody moves him from anywhere. He clears the front of his own net by simply standing in it, he defends the rush with reach rather than with speed, and he wins every battle he is close enough to enter.
34 penalty minutes in 82 games is a low rate for a man that size. He is not an agitator and he does not take liberties, which is close to remarkable.
The Intangibles
Fourteenth overall in 2011 and 680 games and 146 points across three organisations in thirteen seasons.
He is 32 and has been in the top four here since the expansion draft. On a blue line whose two best puck-movers are 6-0 and 200 pounds, he is the reason either of them can play the way they do.
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
- 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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“Nobody moves him from anywhere.”
“He clears the front of his own net by simply standing in it, he defends the rush with reach rather than with speed, and he wins every battle he is close enough to enter.”
“He clears the front of his own net by simply standing in it, he defends the rush with reach rather than with speed, and he wins every battle he is close enough to enter.”
“He is not an agitator and he does not take liberties, which is close to remarkable.”
“under a heavy forecheck he chips it out rather than making a play, and the club's exits get worse when he is the one making them.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,250 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.1%
- 19th 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: 42 for, 55 against. Expected: 44.0 and 50.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 53rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.35 a game
- Distance
- 2.57 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 97.2 mph
- 87th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
2024-25 · 1250 minutes at five-on-five
- Josh Mahura14%
- Adam Larsson11%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,250 minutes at five-on-five — 88th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Montour | 48.2% | 43.1% | 48.2% |
| Matty Beniers | 51.8% | 44.5% | 48.6% |
| Jaden Schwartz | 50.5% | 45.0% | 45.8% |
48.2% together, 43.1% for him apart and 48.2% for Montour apart. He was worse away from Montour, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Montour 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
111 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 52 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 76% from beyond forty.