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Right wing · #8

Saku Maenalanen

Carolina Hurricanes Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
Kemi, FIN
Draft
2013, round 5, #125 (NSH)

Career · 2 seasons

Games
98
Goals
8
Points
18
TOI per game
10:01
xGF% (5v5)
45.6%
Goals above expected
−1.5

Season by season

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

2018–19CAR3444809:263611.1%03.850.8%
After a break: 2022–23WPG644610010:20616.6%05.842.5%
Total2 teams9881018010:01978.2%09.545.6%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080
8m10m12m14m20406080Game

Player card

How 2 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

9th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.4922nd pct
  • Assists /600.6116th pct
  • ixG /600.5817th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.541st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.6%22nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.3%22nd pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.43rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3172nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:017th pct
  • PP time share1.2%11th pct
  • Offensive zone starts46.6%30th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%22nd 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).

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.

−1.5 goals above expected

024681020406080Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed36.1 km/h65th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph10376th pct
  • Hardest shot145.3 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated174 km44th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.2%16th 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

36.1 km/h55th pct

2022–23 only

3535.53636.53722–232022–23: 36.1 km/h, 55th percentile (64 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.384th pct

2022–23 only

2468101222–232022–23: 9.3, 84th percentile (64 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km76th pct

2022–23 only

14.81515.215.415.615.81622–232022–23: 15.8 km, 76th percentile (64 games)

Hardest shot

145.3 km/h60th pct

2022–23 only

13514014515022–232022–23: 145.3 km/h, 60th percentile (64 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.2%16th pct

2022–23 only

38%40%42%44%46%22–232022–23: 39.2%, 16th percentile (64 games)