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Artturi Lehkonen

27 goals in 69 games from 19 feet out, plus-36, and the best chance share on the club's top line.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	590	144	144	288	+54	188	23	9	23	1272	11.3	16:32

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

27 goals and 18 assists in 69 games for 45 points, plus-36 — the highest figure on the club — on 20:23 a night.

57.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 96th percentile. The shot chart is the report: a median shot from 19 feet with 53 per cent of them inside 20 and 6 per cent from beyond 40. He does not shoot from anywhere that does not matter.

The Finesse Game

His best offensive work is getting to a spot and being ready when the puck arrives, which sounds like faint praise and is the hardest habit to teach. He is not a puck-carrier and does not create off the rush; what he does is arrive at the net-front or the inside lane a half-second before the pass, every shift, for 20 minutes.

The finishing has caught up with the positioning. 18.2 per cent shooting is high and will regress, but a man taking every shot from inside 20 feet has a real claim to a rate above the league’s, and he has now had two seasons like it.

The Physical Game

5-11 and 179, and he goes into corners against defencemen with 50 pounds on him and comes out with the puck often enough that clubs stopped treating it as a mismatch. 34 penalty minutes is the cost of playing that way.

The body has paid for it. He has played a full 82 once in his career, and the last three seasons have all ended short of it.

The Intangibles

A Cup-winning goal on his record and the reputation of being the man a coach uses in every situation. He kills, he plays with MacKinnon, and those two do not usually belong to the same player. The third thing the reputation adds is the defensive-zone draw, and it is not in the deployment: 58.7 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 83rd percentile.

At 30 with this style, the question is how many years the body has left rather than how many the game does. Nothing about how he plays gets easier.

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
a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

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
66.2% of his attempts in the slot, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
57.0% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 51.4% for his club in the minutes he sat: +5.6, 91st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:40 a game at five-on-five, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“what he does is arrive at the net-front or the inside lane a half-second before the pass, every shift, for 20 minutes.”
transitionhe lacks it· carries it out; gains the line under control
“He is not a puck-carrier and does not create off the rush”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“he goes into corners against defencemen with 50 pounds on him and comes out with the puck often enough that clubs stopped treating it as a mismatch.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He kills, he plays with MacKinnon, and those two do not usually belong to the same player.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,081 minutes

Expected goals: 57%; 96th pct
Shot attempts: 56.6%; 94th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 62 for, 37 against. Expected: 55.8 and 42.1.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

93rd

Numbers

96th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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, 2024-25 · 69 games

Top speed: 22.2 mph; 45th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.87 a game
Distance: 3.07 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.1 mph; 73rd 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 1081 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, 2024-25

The club: COL took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.0% — 3.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,081 minutes at five-on-five — 72nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Nathan MacKinnon	59.5%	49.7%	58.4%
Cale Makar	62.8%	48.2%	53.0%
Devon Toews	61.1%	51.1%	50.9%

59.5% together, 49.7% for him apart and 58.4% 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

231 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 27 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.