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Kalle Kossila

#83 · Centre · Anaheim Ducks

Born Apr 14, 1993 in Kauniainen, FIN · 5'11", 182 lb · Shoots left

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2018-19. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Matt Puempel DET · 1 P in 8 GP Nikita Scherbak LAK · 1 P in 8 GP Sonny Milano CBJ · 1 P in 8 GP Tanner Fritz NYI · 1 P in 8 GP Alex Formenton OTT · 1 P in 9 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.

00.511.522016-17: 0 points016-172017-18: 2 points217-182018-19: 1 points118-19

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2016-17 ANA 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 $925K
2017-18 ANA 10 1 1 2 -4 0 9 7 0.20 $925K
2018-19 ANA 8 1 0 1 -1 4 11 5 0.13 $650K
3 seasons Career 19 2 1 3 -5 4 21 13 0.16

2018-19 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
8 1 0 1 -1 4 11 5 0.13 9.1 10:18

Contract

$650KCap hitends in 2019
$650KCap dollars per point1 points in 8 games

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. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. It runs through 2018-19, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2018-19 $650K

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
2018-19 to 2018-19 $650K
2016-17 to 2017-18 $925K

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 2018-19 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.

2018-19 analytics

Rating

-0.8Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-1.0Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.5Even-strength defence+0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill-0.2Penalties-0.3

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.

-1-0.500.512016-172017-182018-19Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

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

48.5Corsi for %50 attempts for, 53 against
+0.5CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
40.6Expected goals for %1.5 expected for, 2.2 against
-10.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
46.7Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
33.3Goals for %1 for, 2 against
97.2PDO3.8% shooting + 93.3% saves
17Attempts 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.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brian Gibbons · Kalle Kossila · Kiefer Sherwood427:3050.028.90-1
Brian Gibbons · Nick Ritchie · Kalle Kossila212:4941.776.01-0
Ben Street · Kalle Kossila · Kiefer Sherwood29:5163.668.80-0
Ben Street · Pontus Aberg · Kalle Kossila14:1460.046.40-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. 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.

1Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.6Expected goalsfrom 12 unblocked attempts
+0.4Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.45 expected goals per 60 minutes4th
Shot quality 5.1% chance per attempt1st
Finishing +0.4 goals above expected61stOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 426 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.20.40.60.81Goals 1Expected 0.6

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took this season, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Nov 25, 2018 @ NSH L 2-5 0 0 0 0 4 2 1 10:19
Nov 23, 2018 vs EDM W 2-1 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 08:13
Nov 21, 2018 vs VAN W 4-3 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 09:31
Nov 18, 2018 vs COL L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:24
Nov 16, 2018 vs TOR L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 11:27
Nov 14, 2018 @ VGK L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 15:06
Nov 12, 2018 vs NSH W 2-1 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:04
Nov 1, 2018 vs NYR L 2-3 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 11:22