Eetu Luostarinen

59 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, from a checking-line centre.

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

2019-20	CAR	8	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	9:59
2020-21	FLA	44	3	5	8	-11	12	0	0	1	34	8.8	13:08
2021-22	FLA	78	9	17	26	+1	12	0	2	4	84	10.7	13:26
2022-23	FLA	82	17	26	43	+19	28	2	0	1	132	12.9	15:59
2023-24	FLA	82	12	15	27	+1	26	2	0	2	119	10.1	15:56
2024-25	FLA	80	9	15	24	+12	28	0	1	3	87	10.3	15:17
2025-26	FLA	73	11	22	33	+4	32	1	0	0	107	10.3	16:34
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	447	61	101	162	+24	138	5	3	11	572	10.7	15:07

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

11 goals and 22 assists in 73 games — 33 points, plus-4, at 16:34 a night with 32 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the best on the club and one of the better ones in this book. 59 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 17, with only 15 per cent from beyond 40.

10 goals came out of 158 attempts, which is a modest conversion from excellent ice and says the hands are the limit rather than the positioning.

22 assists in a checking role is a real return.

The Physical Game

6-3, 191, and he plays a heavy forechecking game without taking penalties. 32 penalty minutes in 73 games.

He goes to the net front and stays, which is where the shot chart comes from and why a third-line centre gets 16 and a half minutes on a Stanley Cup team.

The Intangibles

52.2 per cent of the expected goals, 72nd percentile — the best forward mark on the club — and 52.9 per cent of the shot attempts, 80th.

Plus-4, on a roster where the 2 leading scorers finished minus-18 and minus-16. He was one of the very few Panthers the goaltending did not sink, which on this club is close to an achievement in itself.

He is 27, a 42nd overall pick, and exactly the sort of player a contender needs and nobody drafts a fantasy team around.

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
67.1% of his attempts in the slot, 92nd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 978 minutes

Expected goals: 52.2%; 72nd pct
Shot attempts: 52.9%; 80th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 43 against. Expected: 40.3 and 37.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

61st

Numbers

72nd

The two rank him within 11 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 — 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 · 73 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 53rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.79 a game
Distance: 2.65 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.2 mph; 39th 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, 5 assists, 17 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 978 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: FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.2% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 978 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Anton Lundell	50.2%	54.9%	50.3%
Gustav Forsling	55.0%	49.6%	51.3%
Aaron Ekblad	53.1%	51.5%	49.1%

50.2% together, 54.9% for him apart and 50.3% for Lundell apart. He was better away from Lundell, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Lundell.

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

158 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 59% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.