Photo by Jesse Kornblum, CC BY-SA 4.0
Zack Ostapchuk
San Jose Sharks Center #63
6-4, 58 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and 4 goals.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | OTT | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 10:30 |
| 2024-25 | OTT/SJS | 56 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -8 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 3.9 | 9:25 |
| 2025-26 | SJS | 59 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -11 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 44 | 9.1 | 10:06 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 122 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -20 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 6.7 | 9:49 |
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
4 goals and 3 assists in 59 games — 7 points, minus-11, at 10:06 a night with 45 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Thin, and placed well. 57 unblocked attempts, 4 goals, median 15 feet with 58 per cent from inside 20.
That is a fourth-line forward standing in the right place and not finishing. 11 points in 122 career games says the same thing from further back.
3 assists in 59 games is close to the bottom of this edition.
The Physical Game
6-4, 212, and he plays to it — he forechecks heavily, wins the wall, and screens. 45 penalty minutes in 10 minutes a night is a high rate.
The skating is the ceiling and it is why he cannot be given more than a fourth line.
The Intangibles
43.3 per cent of the expected goals, 8th percentile, and 44.1 per cent of the shot attempts, eighth, across 524 minutes, with the goals 13-22 against.
Those are poor numbers even for the role.
2 points in his last 10. He is 23, a 39th overall pick who came from Ottawa, and a big, willing fourth liner on a club that will not need one for another 2 years. The shot chart is the only thing here worth watching.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
35% 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
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 524 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.3%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.1%
- 8th 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: 13 for, 22 against. Expected: 14.8 and 19.4.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 15 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 — 67 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 · 59 games
- Top speed
- 23.3 mph
- 91st pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.58 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.2 mph
- 31st 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 — 1 goals, 1 assists, 12 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 524 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Reavesoff the roster41%
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
- SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.3% — 4.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 524 minutes at five-on-five — 19th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Reaves | 40.9% | 45.3% | 49.4% |
| Mario Ferraro | 35.9% | 48.0% | 48.3% |
| Adam Gaudette | 52.3% | 39.4% | 44.9% |
40.9% together, 45.3% for him apart and 49.4% for Reaves 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
57 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 25 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.