Oliver Bjorkstrand

9 power-play goals, and 175 pounds.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	CBJ	12	4	4	8	+6	0	0	0	1	25	16.0	15:59
2016-17	CBJ	26	6	7	13	+4	6	0	0	2	55	10.9	14:05
2017-18	CBJ	82	11	29	40	+4	9	3	0	2	163	6.8	14:18
2018-19	CBJ	77	23	13	36	+8	8	3	0	1	161	14.3	12:20
2019-20	CBJ	49	21	15	36	+8	12	3	0	5	162	13.0	17:56
2020-21	CBJ	56	18	26	44	-15	23	2	0	0	143	12.6	17:37
2021-22	CBJ	80	28	29	57	-35	16	9	0	1	215	13.0	17:57
2022-23	SEA	81	20	25	45	-1	16	5	0	1	198	10.1	15:37
2023-24	SEA	82	20	39	59	-20	12	8	0	3	186	10.8	16:11
2024-25	SEA/TBL	79	21	25	46	+2	18	5	0	2	154	13.6	15:09
2025-26	TBL	80	12	20	32	-14	16	9	0	1	130	9.2	13:38
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	704	184	232	416	-53	136	47	0	19	1592	11.6	15:26

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

12 goals and 20 assists in 80 games — 32 points, minus-14, at 13:38 a night with 9 power-play goals. His 5-on-5 work was done in Tampa.

The Finesse Game

A shooter’s shooter with a quick, disguised release. 199 unblocked attempts, 12 goals, median 28 feet with only 29 per cent from inside 20.

That is a lot of shooting from the outside, and 9 of his 12 goals came on the power play — which says where the ice is manufactured for him and where it is not.

184 goals in 704 career games is a real career.

The Physical Game

6 foot even and 175 pounds, which is very light. 16 penalty minutes in 80 games. He does not go near the interior and cannot hold a puck against pressure.

The Intangibles

49.0 per cent of the expected goals, 46th percentile, in 839 minutes on a strong Tampa club — a respectable third-line number.

He is 31 and joins a Rangers roster that finished 6th on the power play and 29th at generating even-strength offence. He will help the first thing and is unlikely to touch the second.

That is a fair description of the entire New York off-season: more men who score on the power play, on a club whose problem is 5-on-5.

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

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

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 839 minutes

Expected goals: 49%; 46th pct
Shot attempts: 50.5%; 64th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 26 for, 33 against. Expected: 28.8 and 29.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

46th

The two rank him within 8 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2025-26 · 80 games

Top speed: 22.0 mph; 36th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.02 a game
Distance: 2.09 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.6 mph; 54th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 19 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TBL · 839 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, 2025-26

The club: TBL took 53.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — 4.9 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 839 minutes at five-on-five — 41st percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Charle-Edouard D'Astous	48.9%	49.1%	57.3%
Nick Paul	48.7%	49.2%	50.6%
J.J. Moser	54.4%	46.7%	55.7%

48.9% together, 49.1% for him apart and 57.3% for D'Astous apart. D'Astous was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

199 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.