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Right wing · #41

Ville Koivunen

Age
23
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Oulu, FIN
Draft
2021, round 2, #51 (CAR)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
50
Goals
3
Points
16
TOI per game
13:40
xGF% (5v5)
59.7%
Goals above expected
−4.5

Season by season

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

2024–25PIT8077018:07150.0%32.161.7%
2025–26PIT39257−1012:44365.6%45.158.0%
2026–27PIT3112+513:49425.0%00.371.0%
Total1 team5031316−513:40555.5%77.559.7%

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)
00.20.40.60.8101520253035404550
11m12m13m14m15m16m17m18m101520253035404550Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

54th 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 /600.267th pct
  • Assists /601.1465th pct
  • ixG /600.6631st pct
  • Goals above expected−4.521st pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)59.7%99th pct
  • CF% (5v5)57.4%97th pct
  • Relative xGF%+9.6100th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.1820th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:4044th pct
  • PP time share23.9%50th pct
  • Offensive zone starts74.0%92nd pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%32nd 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.

−4.5 goals above expected

024681020304050Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed33.1 km/h25th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph19th pct
  • Hardest shot100.7 km/h14th pct
  • Distance skated7 km16th pct
  • Offensive-zone time42.4%56th 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

35.6 km/h33rd pct

▲ +3.1 km/h since 2024–25

303234363824–2525–262024–25: 32.5 km/h, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.6 km/h, 33rd percentile (39 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.66th pct

▲ +1.2 since 2024–25

024681024–2525–262024–25: 0.4, 0th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 1.6, 6th percentile (39 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km72nd pct

▲ +0.8 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 15.0 km, 16th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.9 km, 72nd percentile (39 games)

Hardest shot

136.3 km/h38th pct

▲ +14.3 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015024–2525–262024–25: 122.1 km/h, 1st percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 136.3 km/h, 38th percentile (39 games)

Offensive-zone time

45.2%88th pct

▼ −4.3 points since 2024–25

35%40%45%50%55%24–2525–262024–25: 49.4%, 100th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 45.2%, 88th percentile (39 games)