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Left wing · #36

Otto Koivula

New York Islanders
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
104 kg
Born
Nokia, FIN
Draft
2016, round 4, #120 (NYI)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
28
Goals
0
Points
4
TOI per game
8:25
xGF% (5v5)
39.7%
Goals above expected
−1.4

Season by season

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

2019–20NYI1200007:5540.0%00.236.8%
After a break: 2021–22NYI8022−210:4580.0%00.743.2%
2022–23NYI8022+16:5250.0%00.540.7%
Total1 team28044−18:25170.0%01.439.7%

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)
00.10.20.310121416182022242628
7m8m8m9m9m10m10m11m10121416182022242628Game

Player card

Model-based

How 3 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

6th 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 /600.001st pct
  • Assists /601.0257th pct
  • ixG /600.351st pct
  • Goals above expected−1.446th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)39.7%3rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.6%8th pct
  • Relative xGF%−10.91st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0041st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game8:251st pct
  • PP time share15.8%42nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts47.5%31st pct
  • Quality of competition21.8%0th 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. Vladislav Kamenev0.92
  2. Jayson Megna0.91
  3. Tanner Laczynski0.90
  4. Jakob Lilja0.88
  5. David Gustafsson0.87
  6. Justin AbdelkaderDET0.87

Faceoffs

How often Koivula wins the draw over 3 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 580+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.8%

59–79 · below the 580 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

41.3%

Opponents won 48.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 51.5% against them.

Wins above average

−12

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

Draws per game

5.5

138 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

39%23 · +1.257%21 · +1.932%22 · +3.433%6 · −0.229%7 · +3.467%3 · 0.050%4 · 0.048%23 · +4.241%29 · +2.0Attacking 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 zone44.2% 19–24
  • Neutral zone39.5% 17–26
  • Defensive zone44.2% 23–29

By strength

  • Even strength42.3% 52–71
  • Power play28.6% 2–5
  • Shorthanded62.5% 5–3

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +15 after a win, −16 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2019–206536.9%35.3%
2021–225242.3%41.3%
2022–232161.9%59.7%

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.

−1.4 goals above expected

00.511.5510152025Game

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

−40−200+20+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 speed34.5 km/h21st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph817th pct
  • Hardest shot105.3 km/h5th pct
  • Distance skated16 km14th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.5%31st 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

34.5 km/h8th pct

▲ +0.8 km/h since 2021–22

33343536373821–2222–232021–22: 33.7 km/h, 2nd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 34.5 km/h, 8th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.782nd pct

▲ +5.3 since 2021–22

24681021–2222–232021–22: 3.5, 27th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 8.7, 82nd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

17.6 km100th pct

▲ +0.8 km since 2021–22

141516171821–2222–232021–22: 16.8 km, 96th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 17.6 km, 100th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

105.3 km/h0th pct

▼ −2.1 km/h since 2021–22

10012014016021–2222–232021–22: 107.4 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 105.3 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

40.5%32nd pct

▲ +4.0 points since 2021–22

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–232021–22: 36.5%, 1st percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 40.5%, 32nd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)