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Right wing · #18

Jake Virtanen

Vancouver Canucks
Age
30
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
103 kg
Born
Langley, CAN
Draft
2014, round 1, #6 (VAN)

Career · 2015–16 to 2020–21

Games
317
Goals
55
Points
100
TOI per game
12:45
xGF% (5v5)
46.0%
Goals above expected
−1.9

Season by season

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

2015–16VAN557613−711:34947.4%17.148.5%
2016–17VAN10011+110:09130.0%00.741.7%
2017–18VAN75101020−1111:591307.7%012.747.9%
2018–19VAN70151025−414:491549.7%217.141.9%
2019–20VAN69181836−413:0515012.0%813.648.5%
2020–21VAN38505−412:155010.0%15.844.8%
Total1 team3175545100−2912:455919.3%1256.946.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.8150100150200250300
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Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 to 2020–21 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

47th 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

2nd line
  • Goals /600.8272nd pct
  • Assists /600.6730th pct
  • ixG /600.8474th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.944th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.0%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%43rd pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.453rd pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0634th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:4542nd pct
  • PP time share15.2%46th pct
  • Offensive zone starts55.4%49th pct
  • Quality of competition24.3%63rd 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Jonny BrodzinskiLAK0.84
  2. Noah GregorSJS0.79
  3. Jack SkilleCOL/VAN0.74
  4. Miles WoodNJD0.73
  5. Austin WagnerLAK0.72
  6. Carl GrundstromLAK0.70

Faceoffs

How often Virtanen wins the draw over 2015–16 to 2020–21, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1122+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.8%

31–45 · below the 1122 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

41.4%

Opponents won 50.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.4% against them.

Wins above average

−7

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

Draws per game

1.2

76 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

83%6 · +0.420%5 · 0.039%31 · −0.40%2 · –40%10 · −1.2100%2 · –50%2 · 0.00%2 · –38%16 · +2.9Attacking 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 zone36.1% 13–23
  • Neutral zone54.5% 12–10
  • Defensive zone33.3% 6–12

By strength

  • Even strength38.5% 25–40
  • Power play54.5% 6–5

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, +4 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2015–16540.0%41.6%
2016–173100.0%97.5%
2017–182231.8%33.2%
2018–191533.3%34.1%
2019–201827.8%28.4%
2020–211369.2%68.9%

Finishing

Model-based

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.

−1.9 goals above expected

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

−40−200+20+40+60