Armchair Hockey Scout Beta
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Rasmus Kupari

Winnipeg Jets Center

No goals in 28 games, from a twentieth-overall pick.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21LAK7101-52000812.511:28
2021-22LAK575813-518111519.811:48
2022-23LAK6631215-512000535.710:06
2023-24WPG28011-54000280.09:08
2024-25 so far
Career15892130-20361111406.410:36

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

28 games, no goals and 1 assist, 4 penalty minutes, 9:08 a night and minus-5. He took 44.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 229 minutes, the 16th percentile, and his ice went 3-7 against an expectation of 6.21-7.88.

Three goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and a goal of goaltending above them. Three goals for in 229 minutes of five-on-five hockey is the smallest total on this club.

The Finesse Game

38 attempts at a median of 30 feet with 32 per cent of them from inside twenty and 29 per cent from beyond forty, 28 of those on goal, converted at nothing at all against a career 6.43 across 140 shots.

Nine career goals and 21 assists in 158 games. Twenty-eight of his 38 attempts reached the goaltender and none of them went in; a career 6.43 per cent across a hundred and forty shots is a forward whose skating has always been better than his hands.

The Physical Game

He is 6-2 and 201 and took 4 penalty minutes.

Thirty-six career penalty minutes in 158 games. He is a reasonable size and does very little with it; the game is built on speed through the neutral zone and there is no wall work or net-front work in it at all.

The Intangibles

Twentieth overall in 2018 by Los Angeles, four seasons, and Winnipeg is his second organisation.

A career minus-20 in 158 games. He was a first-round pick, he is 24, and he has 30 points in four NHL seasons.

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.

  • net-fronthe lacks it· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips

    “He is a reasonable size and does very little with it; the game is built on speed through the neutral zone and there is no wall work or net-front work in it at all.”

  • playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes

    “Twenty-eight of his 38 attempts reached the goaltender and none of them went in; a career 6.43 per cent across a hundred and forty shots is a forward whose skating has always been better than his hands.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 229 minutes

Expected goals
44.1%
16th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
47.6%
32nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 3 for, 7 against. Expected: 6.2 and 7.9.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
62nd
Numbers
16th

The report ranks him 46 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 — 72 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

2023-24 · 229 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
WPG took 52.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.1% — 7.9 below the club he did it on.
The role
229 minutes at five-on-five — 2nd percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Dylan Samberg43.2%44.5%52.9%
Nate Schmidt40.1%46.2%54.9%
David Gustafsson44.2%44.0%43.1%

43.2% together, 44.5% for him apart and 52.9% for Samberg apart. Samberg 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

38 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 0 of them goals. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 29% from beyond forty.