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Oliver Bjorkstrand
Tampa Bay Lightning Right Wing
21 goals across Seattle and Tampa Bay, and 31 per cent of his shot attempts from beyond 40 feet.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 624 | 172 | 212 | 384 | -39 | 120 | 38 | 0 | 18 | 1462 | 11.8 | 15:39 |
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
21 goals and 25 assists in 79 games across two clubs — 46 points at 15:09 a night, plus-2, with 5 power-play goals on 154 shots.
49.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 41st percentile. His ice went 39-49 against an expectation of 34.68-36.05 — thirteen goals conceded above expectation, the worst mark of any forward on this roster.
The Finesse Game
154 attempts at a median of 31 feet with 30 per cent from inside 20 and 31 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 13.6 per cent.
The release is the skill and it is quick and accurate from distance. 25 assists in 79 games is respectable; he is a shooter first and he has scored 20 or more in five of the last six seasons.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 175 and light. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he never has.
18 penalty minutes in 79 games. He is disciplined and uninvolved in the physical half of the game entirely.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick in 2013 out of Denmark — the most productive Danish player in NHL history, at 624 games and 384 points.
He was acquired from Seattle at the deadline in March with Yanni Gourde. He is 30 and he has never been the best player on a good hockey team, which here is not a criticism.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 952 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49%
- 41st pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.8%
- 62nd 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: 39 for, 49 against. Expected: 34.7 and 36.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 — 71 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 with SEA · 766 minutes at five-on-five
- Shane Wright33%
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
- TBL took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.0% — 1.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 952 minutes at five-on-five — 54th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eeli Tolvanen | 46.1% | 51.1% | 45.7% |
| Chandler Stephenson | 45.5% | 51.4% | 41.8% |
| Adam Larsson | 46.3% | 50.3% | 45.8% |
46.1% together, 51.1% for him apart and 45.7% for Tolvanen apart. He was better away from Tolvanen, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Tolvanen.
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
219 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.