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Oskar Sundqvist

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.

52.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 73rd percentile, across 713 minutes. His ice went 20-24 against an expectation of 22.95-21.07, 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.

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.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
37% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He plays in the paint and he does not finish especially well from it.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“He wins the draw that begins the shift and he makes the simple correct play out of his own end, which is the job.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks hard, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he blocks shots.”
shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“He forechecks hard, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he blocks shots.”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He forechecks hard, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he blocks shots.”
agitatorhe lacks it· gets under the skin; draws the retaliation
“He is not an agitator; the physicality is structural and he does not go looking for anything.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 713 minutes

Expected goals: 52.1%; 70th pct
Shot attempts: 47.3%; 27th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 24 against. Expected: 22.9 and 21.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

49th

Numbers

70th

The numbers rank him 21 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 67 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 23rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.34 a game
Distance: 2.01 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.2 mph; 68th pct

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

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 52.1% — 1.0 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	54.6%	48.3%	52.6%
Ryan Suter	48.9%	54.5%	48.0%
Mathieu Joseph	56.6%	49.7%	50.7%

54.6% together, 48.3% for him apart and 52.6% 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.