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Jordan Greenway
Buffalo Sabres Left Wing
6-6 and 231 pounds, 34 games, and a body that has now cost him more seasons than it has given.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | MIN | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 11:27 |
| 2018-19 | MIN | 81 | 12 | 12 | 24 | -12 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 11.0 | 13:38 |
| 2019-20 | MIN | 67 | 8 | 20 | 28 | +2 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 93 | 8.6 | 14:10 |
| 2020-21 | MIN | 56 | 6 | 26 | 32 | +5 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 7.5 | 15:48 |
| 2021-22 | MIN | 62 | 10 | 17 | 27 | +26 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 110 | 9.1 | 14:34 |
| 2022-23 | MIN/BUF | 62 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 6.1 | 13:30 |
| 2023-24 | BUF | 67 | 10 | 18 | 28 | +11 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 107 | 9.3 | 17:15 |
| 2024-25 | BUF | 34 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8.3 | 15:04 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 435 | 55 | 104 | 159 | +22 | 336 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 638 | 8.6 | 14:45 |
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
3 goals and 5 assists in 34 games for 8 points, minus-4, on 15:04 a night.
50.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 54th percentile, which is one of the better shares on the roster and came in 408 minutes. 34 games is the number that matters.
The Finesse Game
Better hands than a man of this size is usually credited with, and a genuine ability to hold the puck on the wall and find a teammate — 5 assists in 34 games understates it.
The shot has never been a weapon and 3 goals in 34 games is normal for him. He is a possession forward whose value is in keeping the puck in the offensive zone rather than in putting it in the net.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 231, one of the largest forwards in the league, and he uses it in the right places — below the goal line, on the forecheck, in front of the net.
45 penalty minutes in 34 games is a very high rate. The bigger issue is availability: he has played 60 games once in the last four seasons.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick, an Olympian, and a career that has been interrupted so often that the good stretches never accumulate.
The projection is a useful third-line winger for 45 games a season, and a club planning on more than that has not been paying attention.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 408 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.2%
- 55th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.5%
- 78th 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: 25 for, 16 against. Expected: 16.5 and 16.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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 · 408 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan McLeod51%
- Jason Zucker46%
- Alex Tuch27%
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
- BUF took 47.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.2% — 2.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 408 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan McLeod | 47.2% | 53.3% | 46.2% |
| Jason Zucker | 51.2% | 49.4% | 47.5% |
| Bowen Byram | 51.8% | 49.2% | 48.1% |
47.2% together, 53.3% for him apart and 46.2% for McLeod apart. He was better away from McLeod, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost McLeod.
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
67 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 33% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 33% from beyond forty.