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Oskar Sundqvist
St. Louis Blues Center
Forty-five per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet, and a Stanley Cup ring from the last time this club won one.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | PIT | 18 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7.7 | 10:19 |
| 2016-17 | PIT | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 9:10 |
| 2017-18 | STL | 42 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 2.4 | 10:29 |
| 2018-19 | STL | 74 | 14 | 17 | 31 | -1 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 113 | 12.4 | 13:49 |
| 2019-20 | STL | 57 | 12 | 11 | 23 | +5 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 97 | 12.4 | 14:23 |
| 2020-21 | STL | 28 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 12.5 | 15:09 |
| 2021-22 | STL/DET | 59 | 8 | 15 | 23 | +5 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 11.4 | 13:60 |
| 2022-23 | DET/MIN | 67 | 10 | 18 | 28 | -4 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 14.5 | 13:52 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 71 | 6 | 15 | 21 | -6 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 8.8 | 13:15 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 67 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -6 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 10.0 | 13:12 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 493 | 62 | 102 | 164 | -22 | 205 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 572 | 10.8 | 13:19 |
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
6 goals and 14 assists in 67 games — 20 points at 13:12 a night, minus-6, with 4 power-play goals and 32 penalty minutes.
52.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 73rd percentile, across 713 minutes. His ice went 29-23 against an expectation of 23.55-21.60, which is a fourth line that won the play and the scoreboard.
The Finesse Game
60 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20, and 6 goals at a 10.0 per cent rate. He plays in the paint and he does not finish especially well from it.
14 assists in 67 games. He wins the draw that begins the shift and he makes the simple correct play out of his own end, which is the job.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 210 and he plays a heavy, honest game. He forechecks hard, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he blocks shots.
32 penalty minutes in 67 games is a moderate rate. He is not an agitator; the physicality is structural and he does not go looking for anything.
The Intangibles
A third-round pick of Pittsburgh in 2012 who was traded here in 2017 and won a Stanley Cup two years later — 493 games and 164 points.
He is 31, he left for Detroit and came back, and he is one of three men on this roster who were here for 2019.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 713 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.2%
- 73rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.4%
- 28th 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: 29 for, 23 against. Expected: 23.6 and 21.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 24 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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 · 713 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, 2024-25
- The club
- STL took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.2% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 713 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zachary Bolduc | 53.3% | 50.1% | 52.0% |
| Ryan Suter | 46.3% | 56.6% | 48.5% |
| Mathieu Joseph | 57.2% | 49.3% | 50.8% |
53.3% together, 50.1% for him apart and 52.0% for Bolduc apart. He was worse away from Bolduc, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Bolduc did.
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
94 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.