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Left wing · #45

Cole Koepke

Tampa Bay Lightning Boston Bruins Winnipeg Jets(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
94 kg
Born
Two Harbors, USA
Draft
2018, round 6, #183 (TBL)

Career · 2022–23 to 2026–27

Games
167
Goals
19
Points
37
TOI per game
10:28
xGF% (5v5)
45.4%
Goals above expected
−3.1
ShowAll teamsTampa Bay LightningBoston BruinsWinnipeg Jets

Season by season

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

2022–23TBL17101−59:06128.3%02.150.6%
2023–24TBL902206:4290.0%01.046.7%
2024–25BOS7310717+111:158511.8%010.148.0%
2025–26WPG668917+110:28869.3%08.741.8%
2026–27WPG2000010:3810.0%00.227.3%
Total3 teams167191837−310:281939.8%022.145.4%

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)
00.20.40.60.820406080100120140160
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Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

23rd 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 /600.6543rd pct
  • Assists /600.6221st pct
  • ixG /600.7649th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.135th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.4%23rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.2%16th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.425th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4587th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:2815th pct
  • PP time share0.6%4th pct
  • Offensive zone starts30.5%10th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%21st 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. Oskar SteenBOS0.89
  2. Brandon TanevSEA/UTA0.89
  3. Tyler PitlickMIN0.88
  4. Nikita NesterenkoANA0.86
  5. Ivan MiroshnichenkoWSH0.85
  6. Adam EdstromNYR0.84

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.

−3.1 goals above expected

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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 speed36.5 km/h95th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph559th pct
  • Hardest shot89.1 km/h8th pct
  • Distance skated2 km2nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.4%73rd 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

39.0 km/h98th pct

▲ +2.3 km/h since 2024–25

3436384022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 35.4 km/h, 33rd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.8 km/h, 43rd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 36.7 km/h, 68th percentile (73 games)2025–26: 39.0 km/h, 98th percentile (66 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

16.498th pct

▲ +6.1 since 2024–25

0510152022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 11.2, 92nd percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 13.9, 96th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 10.3, 88th percentile (73 games)2025–26: 16.4, 98th percentile (66 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km51st pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 16.2 km, 90th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.2 km, 86th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.6 km, 46th percentile (73 games)2025–26: 15.6 km, 51st percentile (66 games)

Hardest shot

144.3 km/h78th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 132.0 km/h, 9th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 116.7 km/h, 0th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 143.6 km/h, 68th percentile (73 games)2025–26: 144.3 km/h, 78th percentile (66 games)

Offensive-zone time

36.8%2nd pct

▼ −2.6 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 41.1%, 41st percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 37.3%, 5th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 39.4%, 19th percentile (73 games)2025–26: 36.8%, 2nd percentile (66 games)