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Logan O'Connor
Colorado Avalanche Right Wing
Undrafted, 175 pounds, three shorthanded goals, and the best penalty killer on a club that wins fifty games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | COL | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 6:49 |
| 2019-20 | COL | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 13.3 | 8:26 |
| 2020-21 | COL | 22 | 3 | 2 | 5 | +6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 8.1 | 10:56 |
| 2021-22 | COL | 81 | 8 | 16 | 24 | +10 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 127 | 6.3 | 13:52 |
| 2022-23 | COL | 82 | 9 | 17 | 26 | +11 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 104 | 8.6 | 14:12 |
| 2023-24 | COL | 57 | 13 | 12 | 25 | +13 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 85 | 15.3 | 14:57 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 263 | 35 | 47 | 82 | +38 | 117 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 369 | 9.5 | 13:30 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
Fifty-seven games, 13 goals and 12 assists with 3 shorthanded, 14:57 a night and plus-13. He converted 15.29 per cent of 85 shots.
He took 52.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 720 minutes, the 75th percentile, and his ice went 31-24 against an expectation of 31.36-27.97. Thirteen goals is a career high and 25 points at fourteen minutes a night from a fourth-line winger is real value.
The Finesse Game
Eighty-five shots at a median of 19 feet with 50 per cent from inside 20 — half of everything he shoots comes from the slot, which for a man of 175 pounds is a choice about courage.
Thirty-five goals in 263 career games at 9.49 per cent. The 15.29 last season is above his level and the shot is ordinary. Forty-seven career assists says the puck skill is not why he plays.
The Physical Game
The skating is the game — he is among the quicker forwards in the league over the first three strides and he uses it to pressure rather than to attack.
He is 6-0 and 175 and he does not win physical battles, but he takes 34 penalty minutes in 57 games finishing checks he has no business finishing. He forechecks aggressively and is usually the first man in.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Denver, six seasons in one organisation, 263 games and a Stanley Cup. He is plus-38 across a career spent almost entirely in a bottom-six role.
He scored 3 shorthanded goals and has 6 in 263 career games, and at 6-0 and 175 he pressures the point man rather than sitting in a box. He is the best penalty killer on the club and the cheapest useful player on the roster.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
34% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He scored 3 shorthanded goals and has 6 in 263 career games, and at 6-0 and 175 he pressures the point man rather than sitting in a box.”
“He forechecks aggressively and is usually the first man in.”
“Undrafted out of Denver, six seasons in one organisation, 263 games and a Stanley Cup.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 720 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.9%
- 75th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.8%
- 89th 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: 31 for, 24 against. Expected: 31.4 and 28.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 44 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2023-24 · 57 games
- Top speed
- 23.1 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.51 a game
- Distance
- 2.36 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.1 mph
- 39th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 720 minutes at five-on-five
- Ross Colton55%
- Miles Wood47%
- Andrew Coglianooff the roster20%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- COL took 52.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.9% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 720 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Colton | 54.3% | 50.5% | 50.4% |
| Miles Wood | 52.2% | 53.8% | 45.6% |
| Josh Manson | 52.9% | 52.8% | 52.5% |
54.3% together, 50.5% for him apart and 50.4% for Colton apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
127 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.