Luke Witkowski

Born Apr 14, 1990 in Holland, Michigan, USA · 6'2", 210 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 160th overall in 2008 by TBL (round 6)

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2021-22. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Alexander Alexeyev WSH · 0 P in 1 GP

Artemi Kniazev SJS · 0 P in 1 GP

Dmitri Samorukov EDM · 0 P in 1 GP

Guillaume Brisebois VAN · 0 P in 1 GP

Joey Keane CAR · 0 P in 1 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Cap hit
2014-15	TBL	16	0	0	0	0	15	10	37	0.00
2015-16	TBL	4	0	0	0	0	4	1	8	0.00	$575K
2016-17	TBL	34	0	4	4	-1	39	24	81	0.12	$575K
2017-18	DET	31	1	3	4	-1	68	16	57	0.13	$750K
2018-19	DET	34	0	2	2	-5	23	14	67	0.06	$750K
2019-20	TBL	12	1	2	3	-4	13	10	38	0.25	$700K
2021-22	DET	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	$750K
7 seasons	Career	132	2	11	13	-11	162	75	289	0.10

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP
2015-16	TBL	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.00
1 season	Playoffs	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.00

2021-22 season totals

GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	P/GP	Shooting %	Avg TOI
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	0.0	9:18

Contract

$750KCap hitends in 2023, then UFA

$11.86MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.1 goals above replacement

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2022-23, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then an unrestricted free agent.

Season	Cap hit
2021-22	$750K
2022-23	$750K

Each season left on the contract. Only its cap hit and its end are known: how the pay is split by season, and any signing bonus, are not.

Contracts he has signed

Signed	Signed by	Kind	Seasons	Years	In all	Cap hit
			2021-22 to 2022-23			$750K
			2019-20 to 2020-21			$700K
			2017-18 to 2018-19			$750K
			2016-17 to 2016-17			$575K
			2015-16 to 2015-16			$575K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2021-22 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2021-22 analytics

Rating

+0.1Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win

+0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six

+0.0Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

29.4Corsi for %5 attempts for, 12 against

-8.6CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

20.1Expected goals for %0.1 expected for, 0.5 against

-8.7xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him

33.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts

0.0Goals for %0 for, 0 against

100.0PDO0.0% shooting + 100.0% saves

0Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Game log

Date	Opponent	Result	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	Shots	Hits	TOI
Mar 12, 2022	@ CGY	L 0-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	09:18