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Cole Koepke
Winnipeg Jets Left Wing #45
A sixth-round winger who has turned himself into a dependable fourth-liner at 28.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | TBL | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 8.3 | 9:06 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.0 | 6:42 |
| 2024-25 | BOS | 73 | 10 | 7 | 17 | +1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 85 | 11.8 | 11:15 |
| 2025-26 | WPG | 66 | 8 | 9 | 17 | +1 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 86 | 9.3 | 10:28 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 165 | 19 | 18 | 37 | -3 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 192 | 9.9 | 10:28 |
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
8 goals and 17 points in 66 games, plus-1, on 10 and a half minutes a night. Both are career highs, in the first season he has held an NHL job from start to finish.
The Finesse Game
Modest. 19 goals in 165 career games, mostly from within a few feet. He shoots when a puck arrives and does not carry it into trouble.
86 shots in 66 games at 10 minutes a night is a genuinely high rate, and reflects a player who goes to the net rather than one who is looking to make plays.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 207, and this is the job. He forechecks hard, finishes checks, and is willing in the corners. He kills penalties.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick, a long route through college and the minors, and a first full NHL season at 27. That sequence describes a player who is here on habits rather than talent.
There is not much projection. He is a fourth-line winger who does the job properly, and the club will keep him until somebody cheaper and younger does the same thing.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 577 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.5%
- 9th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.6%
- 23rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 19 for, 18 against. Expected: 19.9 and 25.9.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 52 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 74 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 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 24.2 mph
- 99th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.86 a game
- Distance
- 1.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.7 mph
- 82nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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
3
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 1 assists, 22 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 577 minutes at five-on-five
- Tanner Pearsonoff the roster34%
- Jonathan Toewsoff the roster26%
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
- WPG took 47.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.5% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 577 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Barron | 42.6% | 44.4% | 49.5% |
| Tanner Pearson | 44.3% | 43.0% | 47.2% |
| Dylan DeMelo | 41.4% | 44.6% | 52.0% |
42.6% together, 44.4% for him apart and 49.5% for Barron apart. Barron was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
126 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.