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Centre · #86

Noah Ostlund

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Stockholm, SWE
Draft
2022, round 1, #16 (BUF)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
71
Goals
12
Points
30
TOI per game
13:46
xGF% (5v5)
53.1%
Goals above expected
+3.7

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2024–25BUF8000−610:3340.0%00.649.1%
2025–26BUF60111627+1113:586018.3%66.852.4%
2026–27BUF3123+218:15714.3%00.964.7%
Total1 team71121830+713:467116.9%68.353.1%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.810203040506070
10m11m12m13m14m15m16m10203040506070Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

66th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.7450th pct
  • Assists /601.1163rd pct
  • ixG /600.5111th pct
  • Goals above expected+3.780th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)53.1%79th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.6%82nd pct
  • Relative xGF%+2.378th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1254th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:4645th pct
  • PP time share28.5%56th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.6%80th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%43rd pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Faceoffs

How often Ostlund wins the draw over 2024–25 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 422+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

33.1%

108–218 · below the 422 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

33.1%

Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.

Wins above average

−55

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

4.9

326 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

46%84 · +1.830%93 · +0.910%40 · +1.950%14 · −1.138%16 · −1.236%11 · −0.236%14 · +2.238%26 · +1.318%28 · +2.3Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone24.1% 32–101
  • Neutral zone43.9% 61–78
  • Defensive zone27.8% 15–39

By strength

  • Even strength34.0% 106–206
  • Power play10.0% 1–9
  • Shorthanded25.0% 1–3

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +19 after a win, 0 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2024–252236.4%36.1%
2025–2627331.5%31.7%
2026–273145.2%43.5%

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+3.7 goals above expected

02468101210203040506070Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−20−100+10+20+30

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed33.0 km/h22nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph559th pct
  • Hardest shot131.9 km/h74th pct
  • Distance skated15 km71st pct
  • Offensive-zone time50.6%96th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.2 km/h21st pct

▲ +1.7 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373824–2525–262024–25: 33.4 km/h, 1st percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.2 km/h, 21st percentile (60 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.225th pct

▼ −2.5 since 2024–25

24681024–2525–262024–25: 5.7, 54th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 3.2, 25th percentile (60 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km86th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 16.0 km, 74th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.2 km, 86th percentile (60 games)

Hardest shot

140.6 km/h58th pct

▲ +7.9 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515024–2525–262024–25: 132.7 km/h, 17th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 140.6 km/h, 58th percentile (60 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.5%59th pct

▲ +0.2 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 42.3%, 57th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 42.5%, 59th percentile (60 games)