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Kasperi Kapanen
St. Louis Blues Right Wing
Six goals on 99 shots against a career rate nearly twice that.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | TOR | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 14:47 |
| 2016-17 | TOR | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 10:42 |
| 2017-18 | TOR | 38 | 7 | 2 | 9 | -1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 12.7 | 11:15 |
| 2018-19 | TOR | 78 | 20 | 24 | 44 | +12 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 174 | 11.5 | 16:37 |
| 2019-20 | TOR | 69 | 13 | 23 | 36 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 121 | 10.7 | 15:47 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 40 | 11 | 19 | 30 | +15 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 68 | 16.2 | 15:32 |
| 2021-22 | PIT | 79 | 11 | 21 | 32 | +2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 129 | 8.5 | 14:32 |
| 2022-23 | PIT/STL | 66 | 15 | 19 | 34 | -8 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 116 | 12.9 | 13:41 |
| 2023-24 | STL | 73 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -5 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 6.1 | 14:23 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 460 | 84 | 124 | 208 | +10 | 110 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 787 | 10.7 | 14:41 |
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
73 games, 6 goals and 16 assists for 22 points, 1 shorthanded, 14 penalty minutes, 14:23 a night and minus-5, with 1 game-winner. He took 43.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 924 minutes, the 24th percentile, and his ice went 31-41 against an expectation of 32.03-41.17.
Within a goal of the chances at both ends. He shot 6.1 per cent against a career 10.67, and six goals is the fewest of any full season he has played.
The Finesse Game
137 attempts at a median of 29 feet with 31 per cent of them from inside twenty, 89 of those on goal, converted at 6.1 per cent against a career 10.67 across 787 shots.
Eighty-four career goals in 460 games. The speed is the whole asset and it has always been — he beats defencemen wide and arrives at the net with the puck — and 7 career shorthanded goals is where that speed is worth the most.
The Physical Game
He is 6-1 and 194 and took 14 penalty minutes.
110 career penalty minutes in 460 games. There is very little contact in his game and he does not win pucks he has to fight for; everything depends on getting to the puck first.
The Intangibles
Twenty-second overall in 2014 by Pittsburgh, nine seasons, three organisations, and 208 points in 460 games.
Seven career shorthanded goals and a career plus-10. He scored 20 goals in Toronto at 22 and has not been near it since, and at 28 the speed is still the reason clubs keep signing him.
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.
- 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.
“Seven career shorthanded goals and a career plus-10.”
“The speed is the whole asset and it has always been — he beats defencemen wide and arrives at the net with the puck — and 7 career shorthanded goals is where that speed is worth the most.”
“There is very little contact in his game and he does not win pucks he has to fight for; everything depends on getting to the puck first.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 924 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.8%
- 14th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.3%
- 24th 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: 31 for, 41 against. Expected: 32.0 and 41.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 37 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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 · 73 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 95th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.03 a game
- Distance
- 2.35 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.4 mph
- 100th 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 · 924 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, 2023-24
- The club
- STL took 44.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.8% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 924 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Leddy | 43.8% | 43.8% | 44.8% |
| Colton Parayko | 45.9% | 42.5% | 44.0% |
| Torey Krug | 43.0% | 44.2% | 46.1% |
43.8% together, 43.8% for him apart and 44.8% for Leddy 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
137 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 35 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 26% from beyond forty.