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Right wing · #42

Kasperi Kapanen

Toronto Maple Leafs Pittsburgh Penguins St. Louis Blues Edmonton Oilers(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Kuopio, FIN
Draft
2014, round 1, #22 (PIT)

Career · 2015–16 to 2026–27

Games
571
Goals
99
Points
241
TOI per game
14:22
xGF% (5v5)
48.5%
Goals above expected
+6.9
ShowAll teamsToronto Maple LeafsPittsburgh PenguinsSt. Louis BluesEdmonton Oilers

Season by season

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

2015–16TOR9000−314:47140.0%01.442.7%
2016–17TOR8101−210:42119.1%01.048.4%
2017–18TOR38729−111:155512.7%05.552.5%
2018–19TOR78202444+1216:3717411.5%318.751.0%
2019–20TOR69132336015:4712110.7%312.147.2%
2020–21PIT40111930+1515:326816.2%46.046.6%
2021–22PIT79112132+214:321298.5%513.153.1%
2022–23PIT4371320−812:026910.1%65.442.6%
2022–23STL238614016:454717.0%04.644.3%
2022–23All teams66151934−813:4111612.9%610.043.3%
2023–24STL7361622−514:23996.1%010.343.5%
2024–25STL10101−611:19119.1%00.945.6%
2024–25EDM575813−1612:01559.1%05.750.9%
2024–25All teams676814−2211:55669.1%06.750.2%
2025–26EDM418917+514:356512.3%06.649.6%
2026–27EDM3112−418:10520.0%10.755.6%
Total4 teams57199142241−1114:2292310.7%2292.148.5%

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)
00.20.40.60.811.2100200300400500
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Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 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

62nd 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 /600.7259th pct
  • Assists /601.0468th pct
  • ixG /600.6744th pct
  • Goals above expected+6.984th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)48.5%46th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.9%65th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.831st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1559th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:2263rd pct
  • PP time share20.0%53rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts56.7%54th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%56th 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. Luke EvangelistaNSH0.73
  2. Andre BurakovskyWSH/COL/SEA/CHI0.72
  3. Ondrej PalatTBL/NJD0.70
  4. Artemi PanarinCBJ/NYR/LAK0.69
  5. Andreas JohnssonTOR/NJD/SJS0.68
  6. Alexis LafrenièreNYR0.67

Faceoffs

How often Kapanen wins the draw over 2015–16 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2154+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

37.2%

97–164 · below the 2154 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

36.8%

Opponents won 49.7% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.3% against them.

Wins above average

−34

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

Draws per game

2.4

261 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

35%37 · +2.029%24 · −0.430%88 · +1.671%14 · +0.231%16 · −0.263%8 · +2.122%9 · +0.244%16 · +2.545%49 · +1.1Attacking 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 zone29.5% 33–79
  • Neutral zone41.7% 35–49
  • Defensive zone44.6% 29–36

By strength

  • Even strength37.5% 81–135
  • Power play50.0% 2–2
  • Shorthanded34.1% 14–27

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, −13 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–18714.3%19.8%
2018–191050.0%49.3%
2019–201513.3%12.8%
2020–2110.0%-13.5%
2021–221241.7%41.9%
2022–237938.0%37.6%
2023–243834.2%33.0%
2024–259441.5%41.3%
2025–2630.0%-1.1%
2026–272100.0%101.7%

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.

+6.9 goals above expected

020406080100100200300400500Game

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

−500+50+100

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 speed37.7 km/h100th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1089th pct
  • Hardest shot98.4 km/h13th pct
  • Distance skated15 km71st pct
  • Offensive-zone time46.4%84th 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

38.5 km/h98th pct

▲ +1.3 km/h since 2024–25

34353637383921–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 37.8 km/h, 96th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 37.1 km/h, 87th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 37.6 km/h, 93rd percentile (73 games)2024–25: 37.2 km/h, 84th percentile (67 games)2025–26: 38.5 km/h, 98th percentile (41 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.874th pct

▼ −0.4 since 2024–25

2468101221–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 10.3, 87th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 10.3, 89th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 8.5, 81st percentile (73 games)2024–25: 8.3, 77th percentile (67 games)2025–26: 7.8, 74th percentile (41 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.5 km49th pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.0 km, 72nd percentile (79 games)2022–23: 15.8 km, 75th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 15.8 km, 67th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 15.5 km, 43rd percentile (67 games)2025–26: 15.5 km, 49th percentile (41 games)

Hardest shot

146.8 km/h85th pct

▼ −5.1 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 160.5 km/h, 98th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 151.2 km/h, 84th percentile (66 games)2023–24: 163.1 km/h, 100th percentile (73 games)2024–25: 151.9 km/h, 93rd percentile (67 games)2025–26: 146.8 km/h, 85th percentile (41 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.8%21st pct

▼ −1.6 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 43.9%, 78th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 40.5%, 32nd percentile (66 games)2023–24: 39.5%, 23rd percentile (73 games)2024–25: 41.4%, 43rd percentile (67 games)2025–26: 39.8%, 21st percentile (41 games)