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Karson Kuhlman

#20 · Centre · Winnipeg Jets

Born Sep 26, 1995 in Esko, Minnesota, USA · 5'11", 184 lb · Shoots right

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2022-23. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Sam Carrick ANA · 7 P in 52 GP Vasily Podkolzin VAN · 7 P in 39 GP Jonah Gadjovich SJS · 7 P in 35 GP Filip Zadina DET · 7 P in 30 GP Nikita Alexandrov STL · 7 P in 28 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.

02468102018-19: 5 points518-192019-20: 6 points619-202020-21: 2 points220-212021-22: 10 points1021-222022-23: 7 points722-23

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2018-19 BOS 11 3 2 5 5 2 15 6 0.45 $750K
2019-20 BOS 25 1 5 6 3 13 45 36 0.24 $750K
2020-21 BOS 20 2 0 2 -6 0 31 27 0.10 $725K
2021-22 BOS 19 1 1 2 0 0 22 42 0.11 $725K
2021-22 SEA 25 2 6 8 -2 6 46 29 0.32
2022-23 SEA 14 1 2 3 3 0 13 8 0.21 $830K
2022-23 WPG 33 2 2 4 -7 8 35 33 0.12
5 seasons Career 147 12 18 30 -4 29 207 181 0.20

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2018-19 BOS 8 1 2 3 1 0 10 8 0.38
2019-20 BOS 3 0 0 0 -1 0 6 13 0.00
2020-21 BOS 3 0 1 1 -2 2 3 3 0.33
2022-23 WPG 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 0.00
4 seasons Playoffs 15 1 3 4 -2 4 20 26 0.27

2022-23 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
47 3 4 7 -4 8 48 41 0.15 6.3 11:51

Contract

$830KCap hit2022-23
$119KCap dollars per point7 points in 47 games
$4.695MCap dollars per goal above replacement0.2 goals above replacement
$860KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
+$30KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

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. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 695 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2022-23 to 2022-23 $830K
2020-21 to 2021-22 $725K
2018-19 to 2019-20 $750K

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 2022-23 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.

2022-23 analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+0.2Goals above replacement502nd of 696 skaters, 344th of 461 forwards
+0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-1.4Goals above averagethe five parts below added up

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 461 ranked forwards: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile.

Even-strength offence-2.5 19th percentileEven-strength defence+0.3 49th percentilePower play-0.1 54th percentilePenalty kill+0.2 76th percentilePenalties+0.7 67th percentile

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, and the rank beside it is among forwards. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. 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.

00.511.522.52018-192019-202020-212021-222022-23Goals 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

49.9Corsi for %439 attempts for, 441 against
-1.8CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
49.8Expected goals for %20.4 expected for, 20.6 against
-1.1xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
50.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
40.0Goals for %14 for, 21 against
97.4PDO6.5% shooting + 91.0% saves
110Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

Each share is coloured by where it ranks among the 613 skaters who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. PDO and attempts taken are left plain, since neither is good or bad on its own.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Adam Lowry · Morgan Barron · Karson Kuhlman1695:4455.756.72-2
Kevin Stenlund · Morgan Barron · Karson Kuhlman1752:0353.550.61-1
Mark Scheifele · Karson Kuhlman · Cole Perfetti845:5646.958.02-2
Adam Lowry · Mark Scheifele · Karson Kuhlman426:5651.756.61-1

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.

2Goalsnot counting empty-netters
5.7Expected goalsfrom 76 unblocked attempts
-3.7Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.61 expected goals per 60 minutes22nd
Shot quality 7.5% chance per attempt31st
Finishing -3.7 goals above expected17thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 446 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

024Game 20Game 40Expected 5.7Goals 2

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 13, 2023 @ COL L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 17:05
Apr 2, 2023 vs NJD W 6-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 09:19
Mar 31, 2023 vs DET W 6-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 11:13
Mar 3, 2023 @ EDM L 3-6 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:50
Feb 28, 2023 vs LAK L 5-6 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:49
Feb 24, 2023 vs COL L 1-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 14:20
Feb 22, 2023 @ NYI L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 07:13
Feb 20, 2023 @ NYR W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:24
Feb 19, 2023 @ NJD L 2-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:24
Feb 14, 2023 vs SEA W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 06:49
Feb 11, 2023 vs CHI W 4-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 11:17
Jan 30, 2023 vs STL W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 06:40
Jan 28, 2023 vs PHI L 0-4 0 0 0 -3 0 1 3 13:54
Jan 26, 2023 vs BUF L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 11:57
Jan 24, 2023 @ NSH L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:54
Jan 22, 2023 @ PHI W 5-3 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 12:14
Jan 21, 2023 @ OTT W 5-1 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 13:11
Jan 17, 2023 @ MTL L 1-4 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 10:42
Jan 15, 2023 vs ARI W 2-1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:54
Jan 13, 2023 @ PIT W 4-1 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14:44
Jan 12, 2023 @ BUF W 4-2 1 0 1 2 0 2 1 14:42
Jan 10, 2023 @ DET L 5-7 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 10:35
Jan 8, 2023 vs VAN W 7-4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 16:23
Jan 6, 2023 vs TBL W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 13:23
Jan 3, 2023 vs CGY W 3-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:14
Dec 31, 2022 @ EDM W 2-1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:59
Dec 29, 2022 vs VAN W 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 15:18
Dec 27, 2022 vs MIN L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 13:34
Dec 23, 2022 @ WSH L 1-4 0 1 1 -1 2 1 2 15:50
Dec 22, 2022 @ BOS L 2-3 0 1 1 0 0 2 3 16:09
Dec 20, 2022 vs OTT W 5-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 15:01
Dec 18, 2022 @ SEA L 2-3 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12:15
Dec 17, 2022 @ VAN W 5-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 16:32
Dec 9, 2022 @ WSH L 1-4 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 04:06
Dec 3, 2022 vs FLA L 1-5 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 08:53
Dec 1, 2022 vs WSH W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:22
Nov 29, 2022 @ LAK W 9-8 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:17
Nov 13, 2022 vs WPG L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 05:41
Nov 8, 2022 vs NSH W 5-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:55
Oct 27, 2022 vs VAN L 4-5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 08:09
Oct 25, 2022 vs BUF W 5-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 14:49
Oct 23, 2022 @ CHI L 4-5 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 11:52
Oct 21, 2022 @ COL W 3-2 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 11:15
Oct 19, 2022 vs STL L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 15:07
Oct 15, 2022 vs VGK L 2-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:01
Oct 13, 2022 @ LAK W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 08:55
Oct 12, 2022 @ ANA L 4-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 07:29