Armchair Scout
Ozzy Wiesblatt

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Ozzy Wiesblatt

Nashville Predators Center #89

A first-round pick, forty-five career games, and one goal.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2640145-638000254.010:11
Career45156-538000293.510:17

Last Season

One goal and four assists in 40 games — five points, minus-six, at 10:11 a night with 38 penalty minutes. His first real NHL season, at 23.

The Finesse Game

Thirty-eight unblocked attempts, two goals, median 22 feet with 47 per cent from inside twenty — the ice is right and there were only thirty-eight of them.

Six points in 45 career games. There is not enough here to describe an offensive game and it would be dishonest to build one out of a junior scoring record.

The Physical Game

Five foot ten, 183, and he plays considerably harder than that. Thirty-eight penalty minutes in ten minutes a night is a high rate and the clearest thing on his page: he competes for everything and gives away six inches most shifts.

The Intangibles

Forty-six point nine per cent of the expected goals, 26th percentile, in 382 minutes — below the line and better than several forwards ahead of him on this depth chart.

He was the thirty-first pick in 2020, is on his second organisation, and is 24 with 45 NHL games. That is a first-rounder who has not arrived, and the runway is nearly gone.

Three points in his last ten. The compete is real and it is not usually enough on its own.