Luke Kunin

18 points, 55 penalty minutes, and a minus-28 — the worst rating in this chapter by 13.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	MIN	19	2	2	4	-3	13	0	1	0	32	6.3	12:59
2018-19	MIN	49	6	11	17	-9	27	0	0	1	88	6.8	15:53
2019-20	MIN	63	15	16	31	-10	55	0	1	1	128	11.7	15:28
2020-21	NSH	38	10	9	19	+3	13	0	0	2	71	14.1	13:59
2021-22	NSH	82	13	9	22	-11	99	0	0	0	125	10.4	13:50
2022-23	SJS	31	5	8	13	-9	42	2	0	0	58	8.6	15:26
2023-24	SJS	77	11	7	18	-30	83	2	0	1	98	11.2	15:44
2024-25	SJS/CBJ	75	11	7	18	-28	55	0	0	0	112	9.8	14:42
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	434	73	69	142	-97	387	4	2	5	712	10.3	14:53

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

11 goals and 7 assists in 75 games for 18 points, minus-28, on 14:42 a night with San Jose.

112 shots and 11 goals at 9.8 per cent, on the worst club in the league. The minus-28 belongs largely to the environment and it is still the worst number in this chapter.

The Finesse Game

Limited. 18 points in 75 games is close to his rate over the last four seasons, and 7 assists says there is no playmaking.

He goes to the net and shoots from close range. That is the whole offensive contribution and it has produced one 15-goal season in eight years.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 197, and he plays a hard, willing, physical game. He forechecks, finishes checks, and takes a defensive-zone draw.

55 penalty minutes over 75 games is a moderate rate for the style. The body has cost him — two knee reconstructions before turning 25.

The Intangibles

A first-round pick, four organisations, and a career that the injuries redirected from scoring to checking.

Florida signed him for the fourth line and the penalty kill. At 28 the projection is 15 points, and on a club with genuine depth he is a thirteenth forward rather than a fourth-liner.

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.

net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He goes to the net and shoots from close range.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“7 assists says there is no playmaking”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks, finishes checks, and takes a defensive-zone draw.”
punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally
“He forechecks, finishes checks, and takes a defensive-zone draw.”
faceoffsa strength· takes the draw that starts it
“He forechecks, finishes checks, and takes a defensive-zone draw.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“Florida signed him for the fourth line and the penalty kill.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 931 minutes

Expected goals: 40.7%; 4th pct
Shot attempts: 40.9%; 1st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 26 for, 52 against. Expected: 28.0 and 40.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

36th

Numbers

4th

The report ranks him 32 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 — 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, 2024-25 · 75 games

Top speed: 22.4 mph; 56th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.09 a game
Distance: 2.26 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.5 mph; 49th 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 with SJS · 805 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: CBJ took 48.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 40.7% — 7.6 below the club he did it on.
The role: 931 minutes at five-on-five — 50th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Barclay Goodrow	34.0%	44.5%	40.8%
Alexander Wennberg	40.1%	41.0%	46.2%
Mario Ferraro	43.7%	39.4%	47.1%

34.0% together, 44.5% for him apart and 40.8% for Goodrow 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

157 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 11 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 20% from beyond forty.