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Left wing · #82

Mikael Pyyhtia

Columbus Blue Jackets
Age
24
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
81 kg
Born
Turku, FIN
Draft
2020, round 4, #114 (CBJ)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
71
Goals
5
Points
11
TOI per game
12:16
xGF% (5v5)
37.6%
Goals above expected
+0.1

Season by season

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

2022–23CBJ2011−213:3220.0%10.239.6%
2023–24CBJ17022−513:09220.0%01.432.4%
2024–25CBJ47437−1112:063212.5%02.637.7%
2025–26CBJ5101−110:16616.7%00.758.7%
Total1 team715611−1912:16628.1%14.937.6%

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)
00.10.20.30.410203040506070
10m11m12m13m14m15m16m10203040506070Game

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 /600.3410th pct
  • Assists /600.416th pct
  • ixG /600.341st pct
  • Goals above expected+0.160th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)37.6%2nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.2%11th pct
  • Relative xGF%−8.94th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0733rd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:1636th pct
  • PP time share3.5%24th pct
  • Offensive zone starts45.6%30th pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%40th 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. Mitchell StephensSEA0.95
  2. Zack Kassian0.91
  3. Marat KhusnutdinovMIN0.91
  4. Jayson Megna0.90
  5. Tanner Laczynski0.89
  6. Kasperi KapanenEDM0.88

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.

+0.1 goals above expected

01234510203040506070Game

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 speed34.6 km/h21st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1017th pct
  • Hardest shot135.5 km/h45th pct
  • Distance skated13 km12th pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.9%84th 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

34.6 km/h9th pct

▼ −2.3 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 34.2 km/h, 5th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.9 km/h, 14th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 37.0 km/h, 79th percentile (47 games)2025–26: 34.6 km/h, 9th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

11.791st pct

▲ +5.5 since 2024–25

05101522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 8.9, 83rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 6.7, 66th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 6.2, 60th percentile (47 games)2025–26: 11.7, 91st percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km58th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.522–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 16.0 km, 80th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.6 km, 50th percentile (47 games)2025–26: 15.6 km, 58th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

135.5 km/h34th pct

▼ −1.9 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 131.3 km/h, 9th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 134.3 km/h, 16th percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 137.3 km/h, 34th percentile (47 games)2025–26: 135.5 km/h, 34th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

44.9%86th pct

▲ +8.4 points since 2024–25

30%35%40%45%50%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 37.9%, 7th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.7%, 1st percentile (17 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 36.5%, 1st percentile (47 games)2025–26: 44.9%, 86th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)