Mikael Pyyhtia

A 39.5 per cent chance share — the 2nd percentile in the league — across 494 minutes.

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

2022-23	CBJ	2	0	1	1	-2	2	0	0	0	2	0.0	13:32
2023-24	CBJ	17	0	2	2	-5	0	0	0	0	22	0.0	13:09
2024-25	CBJ	47	4	3	7	-11	6	0	1	0	32	12.5	12:06
2025-26 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	66	4	6	10	-18	8	0	1	0	56	7.1	12:25

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

4 goals and 3 assists in 47 games for 7 points, minus-11, on 12:06 a night.

39.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 2nd percentile among all skaters. His on-ice goals were 20-20 against an expected 13-20, which means 7 goals of finishing luck disguised how badly the shifts went.

The Finesse Game

Not yet at NHL standard. 32 shots in 47 games is almost nothing, and 39 per cent of them came from beyond 40 feet — a forward who does not get inside and does not shoot much when he is outside.

3 assists in 47 games. There is no offensive contribution here at present.

The Physical Game

6 feet and 178, and light. He is willing and gets moved off pucks by NHL defencemen without much difficulty.

6 penalty minutes over 47 games. Nothing careless and nothing that wins him a job.

The Intangibles

A fourth-round pick out of Finland who has spent three seasons between the two leagues.

A 2nd-percentile chance share over 494 minutes is about as clear a signal as the numbers give. The club has genuine forward depth issues and this is not the answer to them.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 494 minutes

Expected goals: 39.5%; 2nd pct
Shot attempts: 43.9%; 7th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 20 against. Expected: 13.4 and 20.5.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

9th

Numbers

2nd

The two rank him within 7 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 357 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 494 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 39.5% — 8.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 494 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Sean Kuraly	40.9%	38.2%	50.6%
Zach Werenski	47.1%	35.6%	52.6%
Jake Christiansen	33.4%	42.4%	44.8%

40.9% together, 38.2% for him apart and 50.6% for Kuraly apart. Kuraly was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.

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

44 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 24 feet. 25% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 39% from beyond forty.