- Age
- 23
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 85 kg
- Born
- Souris, CAN
- Draft
- 2021, round 7, #193 (BUF)
Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26
- Games
- 67
- Goals
- 5
- Points
- 11
- TOI per game
- 11:02
- xGF% (5v5)
- 41.9%
- Goals above expected
- 0.0
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
Extra / AHL
8th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
Extra / AHL- Goals /600.4117th pct
- Assists /600.499th pct
- ixG /600.403rd pct
- Goals above expected0.060th pct
Play-driving
Extra / AHL- xGF% (5v5)41.9%7th pct
- CF% (5v5)42.4%4th pct
- Relative xGF%−8.55th pct
- Penalty diff /600.2471st pct
Usage
4th line- TOI per game11:0216th pct
- PP time share0.8%11th pct
- Offensive zone starts28.7%9th pct
- Quality of competition23.9%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).
Most similar players this season
Faceoffs
How often Kozak 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
47.7%
254–278 · #119 of 183 regulars, 35th percentile
Against an average centre
47.7%
Opponents won 50.0% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.0% against them.
Wins above average
−12
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
8.3
532 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 zone51.2% 43–41
- Neutral zone51.0% 106–102
- Defensive zone43.8% 105–135
By strength
- Even strength47.3% 223–248
- Power play55.6% 5–4
- Shorthanded50.0% 26–26
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −27 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Logan Cooley85.7% 18–3
- Leon Draisaitl42.9% 6–8
- Dylan Larkin53.8% 7–6
- Andrew Copp33.3% 4–8
- Luke Kunin25.0% 3–9
- Connor McDavid45.5% 5–6
- Nazem Kadri40.0% 4–6
- Jordan Staal55.6% 5–4
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024–25 | 145 | 46.2% | 47.1% |
| 2025–26 | 387 | 48.3% | 48.0% |
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.
0.0 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 speed37.7 km/h94th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph10673rd pct
- Hardest shot130.6 km/h26th pct
- Distance skated139 km36th pct
- Offensive-zone time35.9%1st 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
37.7 km/h92nd pct
▲ +1.3 km/h since 2024–25
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
12.393rd pct
▲ +1.9 since 2024–25
Distance skated per 60
16.1 km82nd pct
▼ −0.4 km since 2024–25
Hardest shot
130.6 km/h13th pct
▼ −18.0 km/h since 2024–25
Offensive-zone time
35.9%1st pct
▼ −1.8 points since 2024–25