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Joel Kiviranta
Colorado Avalanche Left Wing
Undrafted, fifty-three per cent of his shots from inside twenty feet, and nine points in fifty-six games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | DAL | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7.7 | 10:39 |
| 2020-21 | DAL | 26 | 6 | 5 | 11 | +3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 19.4 | 12:10 |
| 2021-22 | DAL | 56 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 1.7 | 9:31 |
| 2022-23 | DAL | 70 | 8 | 1 | 9 | -9 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 9.4 | 12:09 |
| 2023-24 | COL | 56 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 6.3 | 9:50 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 219 | 19 | 18 | 37 | -14 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 236 | 8.1 | 10:49 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
Fifty-six games, 3 goals and 6 assists, 9:50 a night and minus-1. He converted 6.25 per cent of 48 shots.
He took 47.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 487 minutes, the 35th percentile, and his ice went 17-16 against an expectation of 15.70-17.31. Nine points in 56 games at under ten minutes a night is a thirteenth forward’s season.
The Finesse Game
Forty-eight shots at a median of 20 feet with 53 per cent from inside 20. He goes to the net and shoots from there, and three of them went in.
Nineteen goals in 219 career games at 8.05 per cent. Eighteen career assists. There is no offensive case and there never has been one beyond a single famous playoff night.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 185 and finishes his checks without drawing penalties — 12 penalty minutes in 56 games and 72 in 219 across his career.
He forechecks honestly and gets to the net front, and at that size neither is easy. He does not win the wall against defencemen.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Vantaa, who arrived in Dallas at 24 and scored a hat-trick in a game seven. Five seasons and 219 games later he is a fourth-line winger, and that is a career.
Colorado plays him under ten minutes a night. He does what he is asked and there is nothing else to report.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
36% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Undrafted out of Vantaa, who arrived in Dallas at 24 and scored a hat-trick in a game seven.”
“He forechecks honestly and gets to the net front, and at that size neither is easy.”
“He does not win the wall against defencemen.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 487 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 35th pct
- Shot attempts
- 47.3%
- 30th 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: 17 for, 16 against. Expected: 15.7 and 17.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 30 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 55 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, 2023-24 · 56 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 40th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.45 a game
- Distance
- 1.64 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 82.4 mph
- 27th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 · 487 minutes at five-on-five
- Andrew Coglianooff the roster46%
- Fredrik Olofssonoff the roster44%
- Ryan Johansenoff the roster22%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- COL took 52.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 4.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 487 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Cogliano | 48.1% | 47.1% | 49.2% |
| Fredrik Olofsson | 37.6% | 54.6% | 48.2% |
| Jack Johnson | 42.2% | 51.6% | 48.8% |
48.1% together, 47.1% for him apart and 49.2% for Cogliano apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
59 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 53% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.