Eetu Luostarinen

This Season So Far

The 2022-23 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

9 goals and 17 assists in 78 games — 26 points and a plus-1 at 13:26 a night, the 28th percentile among forwards — with 12 penalty minutes. 1:53 a night short-handed is the 88th percentile.

55.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,051 minutes, the 85th percentile, on a club that took 56.5 as a team.

The Finesse Game

4.81 shots per 60 is the 32nd-fewest of the 393 qualified forwards. Eighty-four shots in seventy-eight games. 63 per cent of them came from the slot, the 88th percentile, at a median of 20 feet — the right places, almost never.

Nine goals on 84 shots is 10.7 per cent, the 42nd percentile, and 1.48 even-strength points per 60 is the 31st. 0:05 a night on the power play, and no power-play goals in his career.

2.18 takeaways per 60 is the 83rd percentile against 1.55 giveaways at the 51st — a genuinely good ledger from a third-line winger.

85.6 mph is the 20th percentile. The shot is soft and it is not the tool.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 191. 5.90 hits per 60 is the 70th percentile among forwards and 2.63 blocks is the 85th — a real forechecking and penalty-killing profile at thirteen minutes a night.

10.24 miles per 60 is the 27th-most of the 365 forwards the tracking covers, against a 22.1 mph top speed at the 32nd percentile and 4.4 bursts over 20 mph per 60 at the 41st. He covers an enormous amount of ground and never goes fast, which is the same measured shape Anton Lundell has and the reason both of them kill penalties.

0.34 penalties taken per 60 is the 14th percentile — twelve minutes in seventy-eight games, and drawn minus taken at plus-0.46, the 84th. On a club whose fourth-liner took ninety-two penalty minutes, that is worth naming.

The Intangibles

Forty-second overall in 2017, the second round, and 130 NHL games at 24 with 35 points.

Two seasons of forty-four and seventy-eight games, and the points have gone from 8 to 26. A third-line winger who kills penalties, forechecks, wins the puck and does not shoot is a specific and undervalued job, and the chance share says he does it on a club that never has to defend.

With Radko Gudas behind him he took 60.4 per cent of the chances over 538 attempts. Every number on this page is flattered by the club, and the takeaway rate and the discipline are the two least likely to be.