Oskar Steen
Boston Bruins Center
Twenty games at twenty-three, a 56.5 per cent chance share, and a shot that leaves his stick at 80.4 mph — the 1st percentile.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | BOS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 13:24 |
| 2021-22 | BOS | 20 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 8.0 | 11:04 |
| 2022-23 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 23 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 6.5 | 11:22 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
2 goals and 4 assists in 20 games — 6 points at 11:04 a night, minus-1, on 25 shots and 6 penalty minutes.
56.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 211 minutes, which sounds excellent and is 211 minutes on the club with the second-best chance share in the league. His ice went 7-8 against an expectation of 8.37-6.44.
Twenty games and eleven minutes of them. There is not enough here to draw a conclusion and there is enough to note two things.
The Finesse Game
The shot leaves his stick at 80.4 mph — the 1st percentile among the skaters the tracking covers. Twenty-five attempts, two goals. For a forward whose route to a roster spot is skill rather than size, a release that soft is a real problem and not a small one.
25 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 26 per cent from inside 20. Six points in 23 career games.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 196, and he is built low and thick and plays that way on a forecheck. Six penalty minutes in 20 games.
Top speed 21.7 mph and 1.81 miles a game on eleven minutes of ice — both near the bottom, and both distorted by how little he played.
The Intangibles
One hundred and sixty-fifth overall in 2016, out of Farjestad in Sweden, and three seasons in Providence.
He is 24. Boston is a bad place to be a fringe forward — the top nine is expensive and settled and the fourth line is staffed with men the coaching staff trusts — and twenty games a season for three years is not a career path so much as a holding pattern.
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.
- ordinaryraised, and called ordinary
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.
“5-10 and 196, and he is built low and thick and plays that way on a forecheck”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 211 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.5%
- 92nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.2%
- 73rd 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: 7 for, 8 against. Expected: 8.4 and 6.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 75 points above where the report does. 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. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 53 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, 2021-22 · 20 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 32nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.85 a game
- Distance
- 1.81 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.4 mph
- 22nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 · 211 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake DeBrusk57%
- Nick Foligno18%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- BOS took 56.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.5% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 211 minutes at five-on-five — 1st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Carlo | 56.1% | 56.8% | 52.1% |
| Derek Forbort | 44.6% | 61.5% | 50.7% |
| Mike Reilly | 60.2% | 55.0% | 57.7% |
56.1% together, 56.8% for him apart and 52.1% for Carlo apart. Carlo was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Carlo 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
31 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 26% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.