Artturi Lehkonen

A Finnish winger who scores more than he is given credit for and defends like his job depends on it.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2016-17	MTL	73	18	10	28	-1	8	2	1	3	158	11.4	13:52
2017-18	MTL	66	12	9	21	-11	20	3	1	3	164	7.3	16:29
2018-19	MTL	82	11	20	31	+10	32	0	0	4	176	6.3	15:33
2019-20	MTL	70	13	14	27	+2	24	0	1	1	140	9.3	15:26
2020-21	MTL	47	7	6	13	-2	6	0	2	0	78	9.0	13:25
2021-22	MTL/COL	74	19	19	38	+1	22	2	2	2	155	12.3	15:06
2022-23	COL	64	21	30	51	+8	28	8	1	3	150	14.0	20:27
2023-24	COL	45	16	18	34	+11	14	7	0	2	103	15.5	18:28
2024-25	COL	69	27	18	45	+36	34	1	1	5	148	18.2	20:23
2025-26	COL	70	21	27	48	+32	16	1	0	0	153	13.7	18:29
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	660	165	171	336	+86	204	24	9	23	1425	11.6	16:44

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

21 goals and 48 points in 70 games, plus-32, on 18 and a half minutes a night. He played 53 percent of his 5-on-5 time on the top line.

The Finesse Game

The finishing has improved every year he has been here. He scores from the net front and the inner slot, and 153 shots in 70 games is a healthy volume for a player whose primary job is not scoring.

He is not a creator. The passing is honest, he does not carry the puck through traffic, and he does his best offensive work by getting to a spot and being ready.

The skating is quick enough to hold a top-line spot beside 2 players who are much quicker.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 179, and he plays a much heavier game than that. He forechecks hard, goes into the corners against defencemen with 50 pounds on him, and is genuinely difficult to play against for a player his size.

He has missed time in most seasons, which is the cost of playing this way at this weight.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick who scored a Cup-clinching goal and has spent his career being the responsible forward on lines with players who are not.

At 31 this is his level: a 20-goal winger who can be trusted in any situation and elevates whichever line he is put on. Very few teams have one.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
67.6% of his attempts in the slot, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
5 of his 21 goals late or in overtime, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:40 a game at five-on-five, 90th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,027 minutes

Expected goals: 58.8%; 98th pct
Shot attempts: 55.5%; 91st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 68 for, 32 against. Expected: 57.9 and 40.6.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

95th

Numbers

98th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 82 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 70 games

Top speed: 21.7 mph; 27th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.81 a game
Distance: 2.74 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.9 mph; 69th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 16 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1027 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: COL took 56.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 58.8% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,027 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nathan MacKinnon	59.7%	55.8%	58.2%
Martin Necas	59.8%	56.9%	54.3%
Cale Makar	59.8%	57.7%	53.3%

59.7% together, 55.8% for him apart and 58.2% for MacKinnon apart. He was worse away from MacKinnon, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than MacKinnon did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

225 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.