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Left wing · #92

Patrik Laine

Winnipeg Jets Columbus Blue Jackets Montréal Canadiens(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
193 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
Tampere, FIN
Draft
2016, round 1, #2 (WPG)

Career · 2016–17 to 2025–26

Games
537
Goals
224
Points
422
TOI per game
17:28
xGF% (5v5)
44.3%
Goals above expected
+81.1
ShowAll teamsWinnipeg JetsColumbus Blue JacketsMontréal Canadiens

Season by season

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

2016–17WPG73362864+717:5520417.6%1418.247.6%
2017–18WPG82442670+816:2924118.3%3124.448.8%
2018–19WPG82302050−2417:1424512.2%2322.542.4%
2019–20WPG68283563+819:2522612.4%1422.643.0%
2020–21WPG1213+116:20366.7%10.3–
2020–21CBJ45101121−2917:287912.7%65.541.8%
2020–21All teams46121224−2817:278214.6%75.841.8%
2021–22CBJ56263056−718:5016715.6%1417.140.4%
2022–23CBJ55223052−1219:0718412.0%1616.747.1%
2023–24CBJ18639−1015:134114.6%24.141.6%
2024–25MTL52201333−1414:1811617.2%1910.942.5%
2025–26MTL5011−312:3660.0%00.636.0%
Total3 teams537224198422−7517:281,51214.8%140142.944.3%

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)
00.511.52100200300400500
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

75th 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.4399th pct
  • Assists /601.2782nd pct
  • ixG /600.9179th pct
  • Goals above expected+81.199th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)44.3%16th pct
  • CF% (5v5)46.5%24th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.022nd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0345th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game17:2889th pct
  • PP time share63.5%96th pct
  • Offensive zone starts71.7%94th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%83rd 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. Brock BoeserVAN0.92
  2. Mike HoffmanOTT/FLA/MTL0.92
  3. Alex OvechkinWSH0.92
  4. Kyle ConnorWPG0.91
  5. Kirill MarchenkoCBJ0.91
  6. Dominik KubalikCHI/DET/OTT0.90

Faceoffs

How often Laine wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1937+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

34.8%

123–230 · below the 1937 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

35.8%

Opponents won 50.9% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.1% against them.

Wins above average

−50

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

Draws per game

1.9

353 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

41%39 · +1.134%77 · +2.433%131 · +1.955%11 · +1.624%17 · −2.540%5 · 0.036%14 · +1.644%16 · +1.533%43 · +3.7Attacking 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 zone33.2% 69–139
  • Neutral zone38.4% 33–53
  • Defensive zone35.6% 21–38

By strength

  • Even strength34.4% 99–189
  • Power play36.1% 22–39
  • Shorthanded50.0% 2–2

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +22 after a win, −9 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–1730.0%-2.1%
2017–184325.6%25.8%
2018–193036.7%37.5%
2019–202737.0%38.3%
2020–212524.0%24.8%
2021–223836.8%39.1%
2022–238035.0%36.4%
2023–247938.0%37.9%
2024–252544.0%45.8%
2025–26366.7%68.0%

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.

+81.1 goals above expected

050100150200100200300400500Game

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 speed32.5 km/h2nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph24th pct
  • Hardest shot141.3 km/h68th pct
  • Distance skated15 km13th pct
  • Offensive-zone time43.8%72nd 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

32.5 km/h0th pct

▼ −2.6 km/h since 2024–25

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.7 km/h, 41st percentile (56 games)2022–23: 36.3 km/h, 61st percentile (55 games)2023–24: 35.2 km/h, 22nd percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.1 km/h, 17th percentile (52 games)2025–26: 32.5 km/h, 0th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.99th pct

▼ −1.4 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.5, 54th percentile (56 games)2022–23: 6.0, 61st percentile (55 games)2023–24: 8.5, 81st percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 3.3, 23rd percentile (52 games)2025–26: 1.9, 9th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.7 km11th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.0 km, 19th percentile (56 games)2022–23: 14.9 km, 21st percentile (55 games)2023–24: 15.7 km, 62nd percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.2 km, 23rd percentile (52 games)2025–26: 14.7 km, 11th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

141.3 km/h61st pct

▼ −4.6 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016017021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 163.4 km/h, 100th percentile (56 games)2022–23: 162.7 km/h, 99th percentile (55 games)2023–24: 158.2 km/h, 97th percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 146.0 km/h, 78th percentile (52 games)2025–26: 141.3 km/h, 61st percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

43.8%75th pct

▼ −0.4 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 41.8%, 52nd percentile (56 games)2022–23: 43.7%, 71st percentile (55 games)2023–24: 41.6%, 48th percentile (18 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 44.1%, 78th percentile (52 games)2025–26: 43.8%, 75th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)