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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.
46.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 20th percentile. His ice went 53-64 against an expectation of 44.79-52.25 — 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.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,250 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.2%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.3%
- 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: 53 for, 64 against. Expected: 44.8 and 52.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 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.
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 46.2% — 1.0 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 | 47.1% | 44.2% | 49.8% |
| Matty Beniers | 50.6% | 44.4% | 47.5% |
| Jaden Schwartz | 51.2% | 44.3% | 46.1% |
47.1% together, 44.2% for him apart and 49.8% for Montour 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
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.