Oliver Wahlstrom
New York Islanders Right Wing
Eleventh overall in 2018, and 67 points in 193 games across five seasons.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | NYI | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 10:17 |
| 2020-21 | NYI | 44 | 12 | 9 | 21 | +2 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 94 | 12.8 | 12:23 |
| 2021-22 | NYI | 73 | 13 | 11 | 24 | -6 | 74 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 157 | 8.3 | 12:04 |
| 2022-23 | NYI | 35 | 7 | 9 | 16 | +5 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 10.0 | 12:10 |
| 2023-24 | NYI | 32 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 4.9 | 11:04 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 193 | 34 | 33 | 67 | -7 | 139 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 371 | 9.2 | 11:54 |
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
32 games, 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points, 1 on the power play, 8 penalty minutes, 11:04 a night and minus-6. He took 42.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 333 minutes, and his ice went 10-16 against an expectation of 12.30-16.39.
Two goals of scoring that did not arrive and level at the other end. Six points in thirty-two games at eleven minutes a night is a fourth-line season from an eleventh-overall pick in his fifth year.
The Finesse Game
58 attempts at a median of 31 feet with 29 per cent from inside 20, 41 on goal, converted at 4.9 per cent against a career 9.16.
33 career assists in 193 games. The shot was the reason he went eleventh and it is still the best thing about him — a heavy one-timer from the right circle. He shoots from further out than almost anybody else on this roster and gets to the interior rarely.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 205 and does not use it.
139 career penalty minutes in 193 games is a real rate for a man who plays eleven minutes and most of it is frustration. He does not forecheck by force and does not win many walls.
The Intangibles
Eleventh overall in 2018 out of Portland, Maine, five seasons, and 67 points in 193 games, all of it for one organisation.
He is 24 and the club has given him five years. Thirty-four goals in 193 games is not what an eleventh-overall pick is for, and this is the last season in which the question is still open.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 333 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.9%
- 10th pct
- Shot attempts
- 40.9%
- 2nd 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: 10 for, 16 against. Expected: 12.3 and 16.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 61 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 · 333 minutes at five-on-five
- Anders Lee39%
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
- NYI took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.9% — 6.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 333 minutes at five-on-five — 8th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jean-Gabriel Pageau | 41.3% | 45.1% | 45.5% |
| Anders Lee | 48.3% | 39.1% | 54.2% |
| Noah Dobson | 44.0% | 42.1% | 50.2% |
41.3% together, 45.1% for him apart and 45.5% for Pageau apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
58 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 29% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.