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Oliver Bjorkstrand
Seattle Kraken Right Wing
Fifty-nine points and a minus-20, on 12 penalty minutes in 82 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 545 | 151 | 187 | 338 | -41 | 102 | 33 | 0 | 16 | 1308 | 11.5 | 15:44 |
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
82 games, 20 goals and 39 assists for 59 points, 8 on the power play, 12 penalty minutes, 16:11 a night and minus-20, with 3 game-winners. He took 51.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,088 minutes, the 64th percentile, and his ice went 42-45 against an expectation of 45.09-42.53.
Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and two more conceded than they called for. Fifty-nine points and a minus-20 is the widest disagreement between production and plus-minus on this roster, and it came with the club’s second-best chance share among the forwards.
The Finesse Game
301 attempts at a median of 36 feet with 36 per cent of them from beyond forty and 22 per cent from inside twenty, 188 of those on goal, converted at 10.8 per cent against a career 11.54 across 1,308 shots.
187 career assists against 151 goals in 545 games. He is the most reliable passer on the club and the most distant shooter on it at the same time; a third of what he attempts comes from beyond forty feet, and 33 career power-play goals is where a shot from that range earns its keep.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 175 and took 12 penalty minutes in 82 games.
102 career penalty minutes in 545 games. He is one of the lightest wingers in this edition and plays like it — there is no contact in his game at all, in either direction, and everything he does depends on arriving somewhere before somebody else can reach him.
The Intangibles
Eighty-ninth overall in 2013 by Columbus, nine seasons, two organisations, and 338 points in 545 games.
A career minus-41 and zero shorthanded goals in 545 games. He has scored twenty or more in five different seasons and has never once been trusted a man down.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,088 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.5%
- 64th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.9%
- 78th 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: 42 for, 45 against. Expected: 45.1 and 42.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 13 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 652 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1088 minutes at five-on-five
- Yanni Gourde57%
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
- SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.5% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,088 minutes at five-on-five — 70th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eeli Tolvanen | 51.4% | 51.5% | 47.0% |
| Yanni Gourde | 52.6% | 49.9% | 45.4% |
| Adam Larsson | 49.0% | 52.8% | 48.2% |
51.4% together, 51.5% for him apart and 47.0% for Tolvanen apart. Tolvanen was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Tolvanen 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
301 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 22% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 36% from beyond forty.