Mikael Pyyhtia
Columbus Blue Jackets Left Wing
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.
37.9 per cent at five-on-five, the 0th percentile among all skaters. His on-ice goals were 13-22 against an expected 13-21, which means the ledger matched the chances almost exactly, and nothing 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.
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
- 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.
- disciplined· stays out of the box
0.13 penalty minutes a game over 47, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it
“He is willing and gets moved off pucks by NHL defencemen without much difficulty.”
“a forward who does not get inside and does not shoot much when he is outside”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 494 minutes
- Expected goals
- 37.9%
- 0th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.1%
- 6th 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: 13 for, 22 against. Expected: 12.6 and 20.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 47 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 83rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.26 a game
- Distance
- 1.95 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 85.3 mph
- 47th 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 · 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 37.9% — 10.4 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 | 38.0% | 37.7% | 49.0% |
| Zach Werenski | 46.2% | 33.2% | 54.1% |
| Jake Christiansen | 33.4% | 40.0% | 45.1% |
38.0% together, 37.7% for him apart and 49.0% 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.