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Logan O'Connor

Colorado Avalanche Right Wing

10 goals from 21 feet out, a 53.4 per cent chance share, and the club's most-used penalty killer.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2018-19COL5000-2000010.06:49
2019-20COL16202020011513.38:26
2020-21COL22325+66000378.110:56
2021-22COL8181624+10380111276.313:52
2022-23COL8291726+11370201048.614:12
2023-24COL57131225+13340348515.314:57
2024-25COL80101121-4260018911.214:07
2025-26 so far
Career3434558103+341430674589.813:38

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

10 goals and 11 assists in 80 games for 21 points, minus-4, on 14:07 a night.

53.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 81st percentile, over 903 minutes. 89 shots from a median of 21 feet with half of them inside 20 — a bottom-six winger who only shoots from where it counts.

The Finesse Game

The speed is the skill and it is near the top of the league. He is the club’s most dangerous forechecker for that reason: he arrives before the defenceman has turned, which turns ordinary dump-ins into possessions.

The hands do not keep up with the feet. 10 goals on 89 shots from good locations is a finisher who is not one, and he has never been trusted with a scoring role because the play tends to end when the decision gets complicated.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 175, which is light, and he plays a hard game anyway — finishing checks at speed, blocking shots, and getting to the net front on the kill.

26 penalty minutes over a full season. The body has taken a beating for it: he has had two seasons ended early in the last four.

The Intangibles

Undrafted out of Denver, a decade in the organisation, and the man this coaching staff uses when a lead needs protecting.

At 29 he is at his ceiling, and the value is entirely in the legs. When the speed goes there is nothing underneath it, and that tends to happen quickly for players whose game is built on one thing.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 903 minutes

Expected goals
53.4%
82nd pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
54.1%
88th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 40 for, 40 against. Expected: 32.8 and 28.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
67th
Numbers
82nd

The two rank him within 15 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 — 76 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 · 903 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, 2024-25

The club
COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.4% — 0.2 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 903 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Parker Kelly54.5%51.7%49.6%
Joel Kiviranta52.1%55.0%50.7%
Sam Malinski57.4%51.3%47.4%

54.5% together, 51.7% for him apart and 49.6% for Kelly apart. Kelly was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Kelly than for him.

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

133 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.