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Konsta Helenius

Age
20
Shoots
Right
Height
180 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Ylojarvi, FIN
Draft
2024, round 1, #14 (BUF)

Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27

Games
12
Goals
2
Points
5
TOI per game
12:30
xGF% (5v5)
58.3%
Goals above expected
+0.3

Season by season

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

2025–26BUF9134+111:55156.7%01.159.3%
2026–27BUF3101014:16520.0%00.654.5%
Total1 team12235+112:302010.0%01.758.3%

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)
0.10.20.30.40.51010.51111.512
12m12m12m13m13m1010.51111.512Game

Player card

How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

83rd 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.8054th pct
  • Assists /601.2065th pct
  • ixG /600.7034th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.360th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)58.3%97th pct
  • CF% (5v5)58.6%97th pct
  • Relative xGF%+8.199th pct
  • Penalty diff /601.2099th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:3029th pct
  • PP time share35.8%62nd pct
  • Offensive zone starts56.8%55th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%60th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

+0.3 goals above expected

00.511.5224681012Game

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20

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 speed33.9 km/h42nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph559th pct
  • Hardest shot144.6 km/h97th pct
  • Distance skated11 km45th pct
  • Offensive-zone time46.1%82nd 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

34.4 km/h7th pct

2025–26 only

343536373825–262025–26: 34.4 km/h, 7th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.817th pct

2025–26 only

24681025–262025–26: 2.8, 17th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km61st pct

2025–26 only

1515.215.415.615.81616.225–262025–26: 15.7 km, 61st percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

134.1 km/h29th pct

2025–26 only

13013514014515025–262025–26: 134.1 km/h, 29th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

41.5%45th pct

2025–26 only

38%40%42%44%46%25–262025–26: 41.5%, 45th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)