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Centre · #71

Luke Kunin

Minnesota Wild Nashville Predators San Jose Sharks Columbus Blue Jackets Florida Panthers(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Chesterfield, USA
Draft
2016, round 1, #15 (MIN)

Career · 2017–18 to 2025–26

Games
171
Goals
27
Points
49
TOI per game
15:30
xGF% (5v5)
36.8%
Goals above expected
−4.4

Season by season

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

2017–18MIN19224−312:59326.3%02.144.0%
2018–19MIN4961117−915:53886.8%17.651.0%
2019–20MIN63151631−1015:2812811.7%214.749.8%
2020–21NSH3810919+313:597114.1%08.046.1%
2021–22NSH8213922−1113:5012510.4%215.243.9%
2022–23SJS315813−915:26588.6%46.445.1%
2023–24SJS7711718−3015:449811.2%512.333.9%
2024–25SJS6311718−2415:159511.6%012.737.3%
2024–25CBJ12000−411:46170.0%01.753.2%
2024–25All teams7511718−2814:411129.8%014.339.3%
2025–26FLA624610−69:41498.2%05.748.9%
Total5 teams4967775152−10314:1476110.1%1486.343.4%

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)
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Player card

Model-based

How 2017–18 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

19th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.6548th pct
  • Assists /600.6424th pct
  • ixG /600.7352nd pct
  • Goals above expected−9.315th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.4%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.9%9th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.812th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2020th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game14:1462nd pct
  • PP time share16.2%47th pct
  • Offensive zone starts44.7%26th 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. Bo GroulxANA0.87
  2. Michael RasmussenDET0.85
  3. Riley TufteDAL0.84
  4. Sam CarrickANA/EDM/NYR0.82
  5. Alexey ToropchenkoSTL0.81
  6. Jacob Josefson0.81

Faceoffs

How often Kunin wins the draw over 2017–18 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1737+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

45.9%

1015–1198 · #170 of 204 regulars, 17th percentile

Against an average centre

45.9%

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

Wins above average

−91

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

Draws per game

5.8

2,213 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

50%308 · +0.943%187 · +1.046%480 · +1.347%55 · +0.341%91 · +1.741%59 · +0.138%99 · −1.950%204 · +0.945%730 · +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 zone45.6% 304–363
  • Neutral zone45.4% 278–334
  • Defensive zone46.4% 433–501

By strength

  • Even strength47.0% 812–917
  • Power play46.0% 64–75
  • Shorthanded40.3% 139–206

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +10 after a win, −23 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–185444.4%45.1%
2018–1920044.0%44.3%
2019–2047244.5%45.3%
2020–214533.3%31.2%
2021–2210944.0%43.2%
2022–231241.7%41.0%
2023–2448045.6%44.9%
2024–2539847.0%46.8%
2025–2644349.4%49.9%

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.

−4.4 goals above expected

010203020406080100120140160Game

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 speed35.3 km/h36th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph6653rd pct
  • Hardest shot134.1 km/h40th pct
  • Distance skated153 km39th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.1%8th 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

35.3 km/h24th pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.0 km/h, 51st percentile (82 games)2022–23: 35.9 km/h, 47th percentile (31 games)2023–24: 34.9 km/h, 15th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 36.0 km/h, 46th percentile (75 games)2025–26: 35.3 km/h, 24th percentile (62 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.663rd pct

▲ +2.1 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.0, 47th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 6.3, 63rd percentile (31 games)2023–24: 2.5, 15th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 4.5, 40th percentile (75 games)2025–26: 6.6, 63rd percentile (62 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.3 km34th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2024–25

131415161721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.5 km, 7th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 13.9 km, 2nd percentile (31 games)2023–24: 14.4 km, 6th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 14.9 km, 11th percentile (75 games)2025–26: 15.3 km, 34th percentile (62 games)

Hardest shot

134.1 km/h28th pct

▼ −3.6 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 141.8 km/h, 42nd percentile (82 games)2022–23: 136.8 km/h, 20th percentile (31 games)2023–24: 136.7 km/h, 25th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 137.6 km/h, 37th percentile (75 games)2025–26: 134.1 km/h, 28th percentile (62 games)

Offensive-zone time

38.1%9th pct

▲ +1.2 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.9%, 27th percentile (82 games)2022–23: 37.5%, 6th percentile (31 games)2023–24: 35.7%, 2nd percentile (77 games)2024–25: 36.9%, 2nd percentile (75 games)2025–26: 38.1%, 9th percentile (62 games)