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Left wing · #93 · Rookie

Kristian Vesalainen

Age
27
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
Helsinki, FIN
Draft
2017, round 1, #24 (WPG)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
70
Goals
2
Points
5
TOI per game
8:33
xGF% (5v5)
45.3%
Goals above expected
−1.7

Season by season

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

2018–19WPG501106:5010.0%00.041.0%
After a break: 2020–21WPG1201108:4150.0%00.433.9%
2021–22WPG53213−88:40434.7%03.247.4%
Total1 team70235−88:33494.1%03.745.3%

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)
00.050.10.150.210203040506070
5m6m7m8m9m10m11m12m10203040506070Game

Player card

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

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 /600.204th pct
  • Assists /600.303rd pct
  • ixG /600.372nd pct
  • Goals above expected−1.740th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.3%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.5%17th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.315th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3074th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game8:332nd pct
  • PP time share1.4%12th pct
  • Offensive zone starts59.8%63rd pct
  • Quality of competition22.6%10th 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).

Finishing

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.

−1.7 goals above expected

0123410203040506070Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 speed34.1 km/h18th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2334th pct
  • Hardest shot152.7 km/h90th pct
  • Distance skated121 km38th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.6%21st 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

34.1 km/h5th pct

2021–22 only

333435363721–222021–22: 34.1 km/h, 5th percentile (53 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.021st pct

2021–22 only

24681021–222021–22: 3.0, 21st percentile (53 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km65th pct

2021–22 only

14.51515.51616.521–222021–22: 15.9 km, 65th percentile (53 games)

Hardest shot

152.7 km/h86th pct

2021–22 only

13514014515015521–222021–22: 152.7 km/h, 86th percentile (53 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.6%24th pct

2021–22 only

38%40%42%44%46%21–222021–22: 39.6%, 24th percentile (53 games)