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Alex Turcotte

#15 · Centre · Los Angeles Kings

Born Feb 26, 2001 in Elk Grove, Illinois, USA (age 25) · 5'11", 195 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 5th overall in 2019 by LAK (round 1)

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.

Arnaud Durandeau NYI · 0 P in 4 GP Connor Brown WSH · 0 P in 4 GP Drake Caggiula PIT · 0 P in 4 GP Elliot Desnoyers PHI · 0 P in 4 GP Jean-Sebastien Dea ARI · 0 P in 4 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.

05101520252021-22: 0 points021-222022-23: 0 points022-232023-24: 4 points423-242024-25: 25 points2524-252025-26: 14 points1425-262026-27: 1 points126-27

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2021-22 LAK 8 0 0 0 0 2 13 8 0.00 $894K
2022-23 LAK 4 0 0 0 -2 5 2 1 0.00 $894K
2023-24 LAK 20 1 3 4 5 6 14 7 0.20 $894K
2024-25 LAK 68 9 16 25 6 20 79 46 0.37 $775K
2025-26 LAK 62 3 11 14 -8 21 67 51 0.23 $775K
2026-27 LAK 3 0 1 1 1 4 1 4 0.33 $850K
6 seasons Career 165 13 31 44 2 58 176 117 0.27

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2024-25 LAK 3 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 0.00
2025-26 LAK 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.00
2 seasons Playoffs 4 0 0 0 -2 0 0 9 0.00

2022-23 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
4 0 0 0 -2 5 2 1 0.00 0.0 6:59

Contract

$894KCap hitends in 2024, then RFA

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

Signed by the Los Angeles Kings on Mar 11, 2020, as an entry-level contract: 3 years and $7.425M, beginning in 2021-22. It runs through 2023-24, with 1 season left after this one, and he is then a restricted free agent.

Season Cap hit Base salary Signing bonus Performance bonuses Paid in all Clause
2021-22 $894K $833K $93K $1.55M $925K
2022-23 $894K $833K $93K $1.55M $925K
2023-24 $894K $833K $0 $1.55M $833K

Each season of the contract, with this one marked. The cap hit is the same every year; what he is paid is not. The pay is as written when the contract was recorded in October 2024, so a later change, such as the rise in the lowest salary for 2026-27, is not shown.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jun 22, 2024 Los Angeles Kings Extension 2024-25 to 2026-27 3 $2.4M $775K
Mar 11, 2020 Los Angeles Kings Entry-level 2021-22 to 2023-24 signed for 2020-21, slid 3 $7.425M $894K

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

Rating

-0.3Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.4Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.3Even-strength defence+0.1Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties-0.2

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.

-1012342021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals 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

52.4Corsi for %22 attempts for, 20 against
+7.0CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
45.1Expected goals for %0.9 expected for, 1.1 against
+0.5xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
56.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 2 against
83.3PDO0.0% shooting + 83.3% saves
5Attempts 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
Rasmus Kupari · Samuel Fagemo · Alex Turcotte316:4744.429.50-2
Brendan Lemieux · Rasmus Kupari · Alex Turcotte16:0766.749.90-0
Kevin Fiala · Jaret Anderson-Dolan · Alex Turcotte10:48100.0100.00-0
Brendan Lemieux · Viktor Arvidsson · Alex Turcotte10:3866.760.10-0

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.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.2Expected goalsfrom 4 unblocked attempts
-0.2Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.51 expected goals per 60 minutes8th
Shot quality 5.9% chance per attempt4th
Finishing -0.2 goals above expected53rdOne 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.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.2Goals 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
Jan 31, 2023 @ CAR L 4-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 07:12
Jan 27, 2023 @ FLA W 4-3 0 0 0 -1 5 1 0 05:36
Jan 24, 2023 @ PHI W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 06:56
Jan 22, 2023 @ CHI W 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:10