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Joona Koppanen

#15 · Left wing · Free agent, last with the Pittsburgh Penguins

Born Feb 25, 1998 in Tampere, FIN · 6'5", 216 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 135th overall in 2016 by BOS (round 5)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2025-26. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Luca Del Bel Belluz CBJ · 1 P in 14 GP Michael Brandsegg-Nygård DET · 1 P in 14 GP Nolan Foote FLA · 1 P in 12 GP Mitchell Chaffee TBL · 1 P in 11 GP Owen Beck MTL · 1 P in 15 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.

00.20.40.60.812022-23: 1 points122-232023-24: 0 points023-242024-25: 1 points124-252025-26: 1 points125-26

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2022-23 BOS 5 0 1 1 0 4 2 8 0.20 $750K
2023-24 PIT 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0.00 $775K
2024-25 PIT 11 1 0 1 -3 0 10 40 0.09 $775K
2025-26 PIT 13 0 1 1 -2 2 7 11 0.08 $775K
4 seasons Career 33 1 2 3 -5 6 23 62 0.09

2025-26 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
13 0 1 1 -2 2 7 11 0.08 0.0 12:08

Contract

$775KCap hitends in 2026
$775KCap dollars per point1 points in 13 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 2025-26, so this is its last season.

Season Cap hit
2025-26 $775K

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
2025-26 to 2025-26 $775K
Jul 1, 2023 Pittsburgh Penguins New contract 2023-24 to 2024-25 2 $1.55M $775K
Jun 2, 2022 Boston Bruins Extension 2022-23 to 2022-23 1 $750K $750K
Jul 7, 2021 Boston Bruins Extension 2021-22 to 2021-22 1 $750K $750K
Apr 13, 2017 Boston Bruins Entry-level 2018-19 to 2020-21 signed for 2017-18, slid 3 $2.825M $753K

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 2025-26 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.

2025-26 analytics

Rating

-0.4Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.8Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-1.1Even-strength defence+0.2Power play0.0Penalty kill+0.0Penalties+0.0

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.

-0.500.512022-232023-242024-252025-26Goals 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

50.2Corsi for %127 attempts for, 126 against
-0.6CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
48.4Expected goals for %5.4 expected for, 5.7 against
-0.6xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
48.9Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
33.3Goals for %3 for, 6 against
96.4PDO6.5% shooting + 89.8% saves
18Attempts 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
Joona Koppanen · Connor Dewar · Blake Lizotte532:0854.541.90-1
Danton Heinen · Joona Koppanen · Blake Lizotte428:1454.261.31-0
Kevin Hayes · Joona Koppanen · Ville Koivunen213:4950.064.80-0
Noel Acciari · Joona Koppanen · Rafael Harvey-Pinard18:5246.256.50-0

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.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.7Expected goalsfrom 15 unblocked attempts
-0.7Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.27 expected goals per 60 minutes1st
Shot quality 4.7% chance per attempt1st
Finishing -0.7 goals above expected54thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 444 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.7Goals 0

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
Apr 14, 2026 @ STL L 5-7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10:51
Apr 12, 2026 @ WSH L 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:07
Apr 11, 2026 vs WSH L 3-6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 12:10
Nov 29, 2025 vs TOR L 2-7 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 13:28
Nov 28, 2025 @ CBJ W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:24
Nov 26, 2025 vs BUF W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 13:02
Nov 22, 2025 vs SEA L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:31
Nov 21, 2025 vs MIN L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 14:15
Nov 16, 2025 vs NSH W 4-0 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 13:27
Nov 14, 2025 @ NSH L 1-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:52
Nov 9, 2025 vs LAK L 2-3 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 10:38
Nov 8, 2025 @ NJD L 1-2 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:36
Nov 6, 2025 vs WSH W 5-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:27