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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.
47.8 per cent at five-on-five, the 33rd 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.
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
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
32.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“a genuine ability to hold the puck on the wall and find a teammate”
“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.”
“he uses it in the right places — below the goal line, on the forecheck, in front of the net.”
“he uses it in the right places — below the goal line, on the forecheck, in front of the net.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 408 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.8%
- 33rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.9%
- 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: 18 for, 21 against. Expected: 15.7 and 17.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 34 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 13th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.74 a game
- Distance
- 2.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 88.2 mph
- 68th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 · 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 47.8% — 0.1 below 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 | 45.2% | 50.6% | 47.6% |
| Jason Zucker | 47.6% | 48.0% | 48.9% |
| Bowen Byram | 50.1% | 46.3% | 48.6% |
45.2% together, 50.6% for him apart and 47.6% 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.