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.
| 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 | COL | 80 | 10 | 11 | 21 | -4 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 89 | 11.2 | 14:07 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 343 | 45 | 58 | 103 | +34 | 143 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 458 | 9.8 | 13:38 |
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.
53.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 79th 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.
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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
33% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“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.”
“finishing checks at speed, blocking shots, and getting to the net front on the kill”
“blocking shots”
“getting to the net front on the kill”
“Undrafted out of Denver, a decade in the organisation, and the man this coaching staff uses when a lead needs protecting.”
“the man this coaching staff uses when a lead needs protecting”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 903 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.2%
- 80th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54%
- 88th 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: 21 for, 31 against. Expected: 31.4 and 27.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 8 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 93rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.17 a game
- Distance
- 2.24 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 86.1 mph
- 52nd 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 · 903 minutes at five-on-five
- Parker Kelly60%
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 53.2% — level with the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 903 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parker Kelly | 52.9% | 53.8% | 46.9% |
| Joel Kiviranta | 51.6% | 55.0% | 52.9% |
| Sam Malinski | 58.2% | 50.7% | 47.1% |
52.9% together, 53.8% for him apart and 46.9% 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.