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Left wing · #15

Joona Koppanen

Boston Bruins Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
196 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Tampere, FIN
Draft
2016, round 5, #135 (BOS)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
33
Goals
1
Points
3
TOI per game
11:50
xGF% (5v5)
45.8%
Goals above expected
−0.6
ShowAll teamsBoston BruinsPittsburgh Penguins

Season by season

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

2022–23BOS5011010:5020.0%00.151.1%
2023–24PIT400007:4940.0%00.124.5%
2024–25PIT11101−313:231010.0%00.644.2%
2025–26PIT13011−212:0870.0%00.747.6%
Total2 teams33123−511:50234.3%01.645.8%

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)
00.050.10.150.21015202530
10m11m12m13m14m1015202530Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

5th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.152nd pct
  • Assists /600.314th pct
  • ixG /600.250th pct
  • Goals above expected−0.655th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.8%25th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.0%30th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.320th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1522nd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:5030th pct
  • PP time share1.4%15th pct
  • Offensive zone starts13.5%0th pct
  • Quality of competition23.3%13th 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. Tomas NosekBOS0.91
  2. Justin Kirkland0.91
  3. Ty Dellandrea0.91
  4. David Kampf0.91
  5. Luke GlendeningTBL/NJD0.91
  6. Tim Washe0.90

Faceoffs

How often Koppanen wins the draw over 2022–23 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 820+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.9%

65–83 · below the 820 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

44.1%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

−9

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

Draws per game

5.3

148 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

52%27 · +1.742%12 · +9.960%5 · 0.033%6 · −9.067%3 · +0.675%4 · −1.10%3 · –46%52 · +3.433%36 · −0.9Attacking 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 zone47.1% 8–9
  • Neutral zone48.8% 21–22
  • Defensive zone40.9% 36–52

By strength

  • Even strength48.1% 50–54
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded34.9% 15–28

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +6 after a win, −24 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.0 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2022–234456.8%56.3%
2023–241020.0%19.3%
2024–254639.1%39.0%
2025–264841.7%42.9%

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.

−0.6 goals above expected

00.511.551015202530Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed34.8 km/h26th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1219th pct
  • Hardest shot124.3 km/h13th pct
  • Distance skated39 km20th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.7%45th 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

34.8 km/h15th pct

▼ −2.1 km/h since 2024–25

343536373822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 35.8 km/h, 42nd percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.5 km/h, 32nd percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 36.9 km/h, 78th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 34.8 km/h, 15th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.642nd pct

▼ −4.4 since 2024–25

2468101222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 7.8, 75th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 9.6, 86th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 9.0, 80th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 4.6, 42nd percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km18th pct

▼ −0.4 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 15.6 km, 58th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.2 km, 26th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.4 km, 32nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.0 km, 18th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

124.3 km/h3rd pct

▲ +0.5 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 123.5 km/h, 1st percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 119.2 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 123.9 km/h, 2nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 124.3 km/h, 3rd percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.7%48th pct

▲ +1.4 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 40.9%, 37th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.4%, 1st percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 40.4%, 29th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 41.7%, 48th percentile (13 games, too few to rank reliably)