- Age
- 23
- Shoots
- Right
- Height
- 188 cm
- Weight
- 88 kg
- Born
- Timra, SWE
- Draft
- 2021, round 2, #64 (MTL)
Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26
- Games
- 100
- Goals
- 22
- Points
- 39
- TOI per game
- 13:50
- xGF% (5v5)
- 44.3%
- Goals above expected
- +1.9
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 2024–25 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
4th line
35th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
2nd line- Goals /600.9574th pct
- Assists /600.7429th pct
- ixG /600.8766th pct
- Goals above expected+1.973rd pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)44.3%15th pct
- CF% (5v5)42.7%5th pct
- Relative xGF%−5.214th pct
- Penalty diff /600.0038th pct
Usage
3rd line- TOI per game13:5046th pct
- PP time share20.7%46th pct
- Offensive zone starts60.5%64th pct
- Quality of competition24.5%50th 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
Faceoffs
How often Kapanen wins the draw over 2024–25 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 410+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
45.3%
330–398 · #152 of 183 regulars, 17th percentile
Against an average centre
45.4%
Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.
Wins above average
−33
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
7.5
728 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone46.7% 128–146
- Neutral zone47.6% 120–132
- Defensive zone40.6% 82–120
By strength
- Even strength45.0% 282–345
- Power play52.4% 33–30
- Shorthanded39.5% 15–23
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +22 after a win, −14 after a loss. Each win was worth 2.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Sidney Crosby10.5% 2–17
- Sam Bennett47.1% 8–9
- Nazem Kadri26.7% 4–11
- Pavel Zacha46.7% 7–8
- Ryan McLeod53.8% 7–6
- Anton Lundell50.0% 6–6
- Logan Stankoven25.0% 3–9
- Peyton Krebs72.7% 8–3
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | 56 | 42.9% | 42.8% |
| 2025–26 | 672 | 45.5% | 45.7% |
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.
+1.9 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed36.1 km/h60th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph12781st pct
- Hardest shot142.4 km/h74th pct
- Distance skated297 km70th pct
- Offensive-zone time40.2%23rd pct
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.
Top skating speed
36.1 km/h50th pct
▲ +0.3 km/h since 2024–25
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
6.460th pct
▼ −0.6 since 2024–25
Distance skated per 60
15.0 km21st pct
▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25
Hardest shot
142.4 km/h68th pct
▲ +7.7 km/h since 2024–25
Offensive-zone time
40.2%25th pct
▲ +0.2 points since 2024–25