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Owen Power
Buffalo Sabres Defense
40 points at 22 from 6-6, and a minus-13 that says more about the club than about him.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | BUF | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 20.0 | 22:05 |
| 2022-23 | BUF | 79 | 4 | 31 | 35 | +10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 3.1 | 23:48 |
| 2023-24 | BUF | 76 | 6 | 27 | 33 | +8 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 108 | 5.6 | 22:55 |
| 2024-25 | BUF | 79 | 7 | 33 | 40 | -13 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 139 | 5.0 | 21:19 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 242 | 19 | 92 | 111 | +8 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 387 | 4.9 | 22:39 |
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
7 goals and 33 assists in 79 games for 40 points, minus-13, on 21:19 a night.
47.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 27th percentile. His on-ice goals were 61-65 against an expected 50-56 — 10 goals of finishing luck at one end and 6 of goaltending against him at the other, which is a good illustration of why the rating is not the story.
The Finesse Game
The skating for 6-6 is genuinely unusual — long, easy, and quick enough to recover when he is beaten wide, which most defencemen this size cannot do. He moves the puck early and well and 33 assists is a real total.
What has not arrived is the shot. 139 shots and 7 goals with only 11 per cent of the attempts from inside 20 feet; he was the 1st overall pick partly on an offensive projection that has settled into competent rather than dangerous.
The Physical Game
6-6 and 226, and he does not play to it. He defends with reach and position rather than force, and he can be moved off the front of his own net by forwards who are far smaller.
16 penalty minutes over 79 games. For a defenceman of this size playing 21 minutes a night, that is an absence of involvement rather than discipline.
The Intangibles
The 1st overall pick, a top-four job at 20, and three NHL seasons that have been steady rather than ascending.
At 22 there is a great deal of time. The concern is the shape of the development: the passing and skating are already good and the two things that would make him a top-pair defenceman — a shot and a willingness to be physical — have not moved in three years.
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.
- slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
20.2% of his attempts in the slot, 94th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He moves the puck early and well and 33 assists is a real total.”
“He defends with reach and position rather than force”
“he can be moved off the front of his own net by forwards who are far smaller.”
“the two things that would make him a top-pair defenceman — a shot and a willingness to be physical — have not moved in three years.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,330 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.2%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.8%
- 71st 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: 61 for, 65 against. Expected: 50.2 and 56.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 21 points above where the numbers do. 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 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 21.4 mph
- 39th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.59 a game
- Distance
- 3.16 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.5 mph
- 32nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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 · 1330 minutes at five-on-five
- Bowen Byram24%
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
- BUF took 47.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,330 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Tuch | 46.7% | 47.3% | 51.8% |
| John-Jason Peterka | 47.8% | 46.9% | 47.0% |
| Tage Thompson | 53.0% | 45.1% | 50.0% |
46.7% together, 47.3% for him apart and 51.8% for Tuch apart. Tuch was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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
193 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 29 feet. 11% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 53% from beyond forty.