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Eetu Luostarinen

24 points, a plus-12, and half his shots taken from inside 20 feet on the league's best checking line.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	374	50	79	129	+20	106	4	3	11	465	10.8	14:50

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

9 goals and 15 assists in 80 games for 24 points, plus-12, on 15:17 a night with a shorthanded goal.

52.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 72nd percentile, in the hardest forward minutes on the roster after Barkov’s. 50 per cent of his shots came from inside 20 feet at a median of 20.

The Finesse Game

Limited and precisely directed. 87 shots in 80 games and 9 goals; there is no finishing and no creation, and 15 assists is what a checking winger produces.

Everything about the offensive game is a byproduct of the defensive one — he arrives at loose pucks in the offensive zone because he wins them back in the neutral zone.

The Physical Game

6-3 and 191, and he plays a genuinely hard, relentless forechecking game. He wins pucks on the wall against defencemen, blocks shots, and is trusted in every defensive situation.

28 penalty minutes over 80 games is disciplined for the style. The durability has been excellent.

The Intangibles

A second-round pick, six seasons in one organisation, and two Cups from a role nobody outside the building notices.

At 27 the projection is unchanged: 25 points and the hardest minutes on the club. With Barkov out he takes on more of them.

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

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.

durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“he plays a genuinely hard, relentless forechecking game”
wins-the-walla strength· the corners and below the goal line
“He wins pucks on the wall against defencemen”
shot-blockera strength· gets in front of it
“blocks shots”
defensively-responsiblea strength· comes back; can be trusted with a lead
“is trusted in every defensive situation”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 981 minutes

Expected goals: 52.4%; 73rd pct
Shot attempts: 54.1%; 88th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 30 for, 26 against. Expected: 36.3 and 33.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

76th

Numbers

73rd

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 — 77 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 · 80 games

Top speed: 22.9 mph; 82nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.94 a game
Distance: 2.46 miles a game
Hardest shot: 80.7 mph; 21st 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 · 981 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: FLA took 54.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 981 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Anton Lundell	51.3%	54.6%	57.3%
Gustav Forsling	52.3%	52.5%	54.8%
Niko Mikkola	53.3%	51.9%	53.3%

51.3% together, 54.6% for him apart and 57.3% for Lundell apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.

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

138 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 51% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.