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Kaapo Kakko
Seattle Kraken Right Wing
44 points in 79 games across two clubs, in the first season anybody has used him properly.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | NYR | 66 | 10 | 13 | 23 | -26 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 109 | 9.2 | 14:17 |
| 2020-21 | NYR | 48 | 9 | 8 | 17 | +3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 11.1 | 14:21 |
| 2021-22 | NYR | 43 | 7 | 11 | 18 | +9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 11.3 | 15:27 |
| 2022-23 | NYR | 82 | 18 | 22 | 40 | +12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 125 | 14.4 | 15:18 |
| 2023-24 | NYR | 61 | 13 | 6 | 19 | +6 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 91 | 14.3 | 13:17 |
| 2024-25 | NYR/SEA | 79 | 14 | 30 | 44 | -2 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 117 | 12.0 | 15:37 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 379 | 71 | 90 | 161 | +2 | 104 | 10 | 0 | 11 | 585 | 12.1 | 14:46 |
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
14 goals and 30 assists in 79 games across New York and Seattle — 44 points at 15:37 a night, with 4 power-play goals and 38 penalty minutes. It is a career high by fourteen points.
48.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 25th percentile. His ice went 48-46 against an expectation of 41.72-45.21 — three goals of scoring missing and two fewer conceded.
The Finesse Game
117 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 39 per cent from inside 20, converting at 12.0 per cent.
30 assists is the number that changed. He protects the puck below the goal line better than almost anybody on this roster and he waits — the pass arrives a beat after a defenceman has committed, and it is the reason Seattle traded for him.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 215 and genuinely strong on a puck. He wins the wall, he is difficult to separate from possession, and he forechecks properly.
38 penalty minutes in 79 games. He is not an agitator and the physicality is used to hold the puck rather than to hurt anybody.
The Intangibles
Second overall in 2019 and six seasons of being told he was a disappointment for not being the man taken first — 379 games and 161 points.
He was traded to Seattle in December for Will Borgen and a pair of picks, put on a line with a centre who needed a puck-protector, and scored at a career-best rate for the rest of the season. He is 24.
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.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He wins the wall, he is difficult to separate from possession, and he forechecks properly.”
“He wins the wall, he is difficult to separate from possession, and he forechecks properly.”
“**30 assists is the number that changed.**”
“He is not an agitator and the physicality is used to hold the puck rather than to hurt anybody.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,046 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48%
- 35th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.7%
- 49th 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: 48 for, 46 against. Expected: 41.7 and 45.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 31 points above where the numbers do. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 21.2 mph
- 11th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.34 a game
- Distance
- 2.40 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.7 mph
- 64th 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 83.9
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 · 679 minutes at five-on-five
- Jani Nyman10%
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
- SEA took 47.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.0% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,046 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matty Beniers | 48.7% | 47.0% | 50.6% |
| Jaden Schwartz | 49.6% | 46.6% | 45.1% |
| Vince Dunn | 46.3% | 48.7% | 49.7% |
48.7% together, 47.0% for him apart and 50.6% for Beniers 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
170 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.