Tyson Kozak
Buffalo Sabres Center
4th percentile in shot attempts, which is nearly the bottom of the league.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | BUF | 21 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 27.3 | 10:29 |
| 2025-26 | BUF | 46 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6.7 | 11:17 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 67 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 12.2 | 11:02 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 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 46 games, minus-1, at 11:17 a night. 2 penalty minutes all season.
The Finesse Game
Not there. 30 shots on goal in 46 games produced 2 goals from a median of 23 feet. 11 points in 67 career games.
He is a defensive-minded fourth-line centre and the offence is not going to arrive; the question is only whether the defending is good enough to carry a roster spot.
The Physical Game
5-11, 185, and 2 penalty minutes in 46 games is a startling number for a player in this role. He is not initiating anything. He forechecks with his feet and finishes very little.
The Intangibles
The on-ice numbers are among the worst in this book: 41.6 per cent of the expected goals, 4th percentile, and 41.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 3rd percentile. In 466 minutes the puck went the other way almost whenever he was out there.
The goals read 12-13, level, which against expected goals of 13.7 to 19.2 is a 5-goal gap in his favour and is entirely the club’s shooting and goaltending.
a 193rd overall pick who has reached the league at 23, which is an achievement. This season has to show something the numbers can see.
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
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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.04 penalty minutes a game over 46, 0th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
27% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 2nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 466 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.6%
- 4th pct
- Shot attempts
- 41.9%
- 3rd 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: 12 for, 13 against. Expected: 13.7 and 19.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.
Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 59 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, 2025-26 · 46 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 94th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.30 a game
- Distance
- 1.88 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 81.1 mph
- 26th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
2
points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 11 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 466 minutes at five-on-five
- Peyton Krebs23%
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, 2025-26
- The club
- BUF took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.6% — 9.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 466 minutes at five-on-five — 15th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beck Malenstyn | 34.0% | 48.8% | 49.8% |
| Mattias Samuelsson | 45.2% | 38.8% | 51.9% |
| Owen Power | 36.8% | 44.5% | 52.0% |
34.0% together, 48.8% for him apart and 49.8% for Malenstyn apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
40 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.