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2026-2027 Regular Season Player Card
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2020-10-26	Article	Wild West: Western Conference Roster Changes Part 3
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2020-01-13	Article	Wild West – The Week That Was (Jan 13 2020)
2020-01-12	Article	21 Fantasy Hockey Rambles
2019-10-09	Article	Rambling: ... Sami Niku was patrolling the top unit during Tu...
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2019-07-01	Article	Fantasy Take: Canucks Get Their D-Man In Myers
2019-06-23	Article	21 Fantasy Hockey Rambles
2019-06-19	Article	Rambling: ...mer AHL Defenseman of the Year, Sami Niku. The 22-year-old doesn’t immedi...
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2019-04-21	Article	Rambling: ...s should finally be able to see Sami Niku on the Jets for a full season. Then y...

Salary/CapHit Information

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2026-2027 Salary	UFA Year	Expiry Status	Arbitration Eligible?	Group 6 UFA Eligible?
N/A			No	No

Year	Cap Hit	AAV

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Profile	Price	Chg	Chg%	YTD%	FPTS	FPTS/$
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NHL ID: 8478915

2026-2027 Regular Season Game Log

Date	OPP	Team	Status	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	SOG	PPG	PPP	HITS	BKS	FOW	FO%	PPTOI	%PP	SHTOI	%SH	TOI	HIghlights

Daily Fantasy Sports

Game Date	Team	Opponent	DraftKings	Yahoo	FanDuel	OwnersBox

2026-2027 Regular Season Game Log

Date	OPP	Team	Status	W	L	OTL	GA	SA	GAA	SV%	GSAA	SO	QS	RBS	xGA	GSAx	STEAL	PL	MIN

DraftKings

Game Date	Team	Opponent	DraftKings	Yahoo	FanDuel	OwnersBox

2026-2027 Regular Season Line Combinations

Even Strength Line Combinations

Freq	Line Combination

Num	Time	%	Line	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%

Even Strength Line Production (total pts: )

PTS	%Total	Line Combination

Even Strength Best Linemate

PTS	Linemate

Power Play Line Combinations

Freq	Line Combination

Num	Time	%	Line	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%

Power Play Line Production (total pts: )

PTS	%Total	Line Combination

Power Play Best Linemate

PTS	Linemate

Last Game Lines (0000-00-00)

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Num	Time	%	EV - FORWARDS	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%
Num	Time	%	EV - DEFENSE	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%
Num	Time	%	PP - FORWARDS	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%
Num	Time	%	PP - DEFENSE	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%
Num	Time	%	SH - FORWARDS	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%
Num	Time	%	SH - DEFENSE	GF	GA	+/-	SF	SA	SF%	CF	CA	CF%

2026-2027 Regular Season Stats

Name	GP	W	L	OTL	GA	SHA	GAA	SV%	GSAA	GA 5v5	SA 5v5	SV% 5v5	xGA 5v5	GSAX	GSAX/GP	SO	QS	QS%	RBS	RBS%	MIN

Prospect Profile Pages

Name	Age	Draf Year	Draf Round	Draf Pick	Upside	Certainty
BRENT JOHNSON	49.5	1995	5	129	3.0	3.0
IVAN PROSVETOV	27.5	2018	4	114	4.8	5.5
FILIP LARSSON	28.1	2016	6	167	5.5	4.5
KEVIN MANDOLESE	26.1	2018	6	157	3.5	4.5
ISAIAH SAVILLE	26.0	2019	5	135	3.0	3.5
IVAN FEDOTOV	29.8	2015	7	188	6.8	5.0
JAKUB SKAREK	26.9	2018	3	72	4.0	4.5
VADIM ZHERENKO	25.5	2019	7	208	5.5	5.5
MAGNUS CHRONA	26.1	2018	5	152	4.0	4.5
LUKAS PARIK	25.5	2019	3	87	4.8	2.0
JOE VRBETIC	23.9	2021	7	214	4.0	3.0
VYACHESLAV PEKSA	24.1	2021	6	185	5.0	5.0
GARIN BJORKLUND	24.3	2020	6	179	6.0	6.5
HUGO OLLAS	24.4	2020	7	197	6.0	3.0
TALYN BOYKO	23.9	2021	4	112	6.5	4.0
TRISTAN LENNOX	23.9	2021	3	93	5.0	5.0
BENJAMIN GAUDREAU	23.7	2021	3	81	5.6	2.8
JESPER VIKMAN	24.5	2020	5	125	6.0	4.0
AMIR MIFTAKHOV	26.4	2020	6	186	6.0	6.5
NIKITA QUAPP	23.6	2021	6	187	4.0	4.0
JAN BEDNAR	24.1	2020	4	107	5.5	2.0
TYLER BRENNAN	23.0	2022	4	102	4.0	4.5
REID DYCK	22.7	2022	6	183	5.0	3.0
JAKUB VONDRAS	22.3	2022	6	171	4.0	4.0
NICK MALIK	24.4	2022	5	160	4.5	1.5
YANIV PERETS	26.5	0	0	0	3.0	4.0
LANDON MILLER	20.7	2024	4	126	2.5	2.0
RYERSON LEENDERS	20.3	2024	7	219	7.0	7.0
OWEN SAY	25.3	0	0	0	3.0	3.0

Career Stats (Regular Season)

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/G	84GP Pace	+/-	PIM	SOG	S%	SOG/G	HITS	PPP	BLKS	PPTOI	%PP	%SH	TOI
2021-2022	MTL	13	0	6	6	0.46	39	3	2	14	0.0	1.1	6	1	17	02:06	37.3	5.0	15:17
2020-2021	WPG	6	0	0	0	0.00	0	-3	8	2	0.0	0.3	0	0	7	00:01	0.2	0.4	12:58
2019-2020	WPG	17	0	5	5	0.29	25	-2	12	27	0.0	1.6	16	0	19	00:31	10.9	0.3	16:10
2018-2019	WPG	30	1	3	4	0.13	11	0	2	19	5.3	0.6	10	0	30	00:06	1.8	0.4	13:55
2017-2018	WPG	1	1	0	1	1.00	84	0	0	2	50.0	2.0	0	0	3	00:00	0.0	0.0	15:13
CAREER		67	2	14	16	0.24	20	-2	24	64	3.1	1.0	32	1	76	00:35	10.9	1.3	14:41

Career Stats (Per Game)

Season	Team	GP	G	G/GP	A	A/GP	PTS	PTS/G	PIM	PIM/GP	SOG	SOG/GP	PPP	PPP/GP	HITS	HITS/GP	BKS	BKS/GP
2021-2022	MTL	13	0	0.00	6	0.46	6	0.46	2	0.15	14	1.08	1	0.08	6	0.46	17	1.31
2020-2021	WPG	6	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	8	1.33	2	0.33	0	0.00	0	0.00	7	1.17
2019-2020	WPG	17	0	0.00	5	0.29	5	0.29	12	0.71	27	1.59	0	0.00	16	0.94	19	1.12
2018-2019	WPG	30	1	0.03	3	0.10	4	0.13	2	0.07	19	0.63	0	0.00	10	0.33	30	1.00
2017-2018	WPG	1	1	1.00	0	0.00	1	1.00	0	0.00	2	2.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	3	3.00

Career Stats (Non-NHL)

AHL Profile Page

Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/G	PIM	+/-	SOG	SOG/G	S%	PPP	NHLe
2026-2027	SHL	LinkA¶ping HC	5	0	1	1	0.20	6	-3	0	0.0	0	0	10
2025-2026	NL	Lausanne HC	50	8	16	24	0.48	22	10	0	0.0	0	0	19
2025-2026	Champions HL	Lausanne HC	5	0	0	0	0.00	0	-3	0	0.0	0	0
2024-2025	NL	EHC Kloten	52	5	25	30	0.58	32	5	0	0.0	0	0	23
2023-2024	Liiga	JYP	37	11	26	37	1.00	24	-7	0	0.0	0	0	38
2023-2024	Liiga	Ilves	16	1	11	12	0.75	4	13	0	0.0	0	0	28
2023-2024	EHT	Finland	3	0	0	0	0.00	0	-3	0	0.0	0	0
2022-2023	Liiga	JYP	54	9	33	42	0.78	26	7	0	0.0	0	0	30
2022-2023	EHT	Finland	4	0	1	1	0.25	2	3	0	0.0	0	0
2021-2022	AHL	Laval Rocket	36	2	11	13	0.36	14	3	43	1.2	4.7	1	15
2019-2020	AHL	Manitoba Moose	18	3	11	14	0.78	12	-6	19	1.1	15.8	7	32
2018-2019	AHL	Manitoba Moose	20	3	9	12	0.60	14	-6	0	0.0	0	0	24
2017-2018	AHL	Manitoba Moose	76	16	38	54	0.71	30	17	0	0.0	0	0	29
2016-2017	Liiga	JYP	59	5	22	27	0.46	26	3	0	0.0	0	0	17
2016-2017	Champions HL	JYP	8	1	2	3	0.38	4	2	0	0.0	0	0
2015-2016	Liiga	JYP	38	4	7	11	0.29	2	2	0	0.0	0	0	11
2015-2016	WJC-20	Finland U20	7	1	1	2	0.29	2	3	0	0.0	0	0
2015-2016	Mestis	JYP-Akatemia	7	0	2	2	0.29	4	1	0	0.0	0	0
2015-2016	Champions HL	JYP	6	0	1	1	0.17	2	1	0	0.0	0	0
2014-2015	Finland-2	JYP-Akatemia	39	3	22	25	0.64	24	0	0	0.0	0	0
2014-2015	Finland	JYP	12	0	1	1	0.08	6	0	0	0.0	0	0
2013-2014	Finland-2	JYP-Akatemia	30	0	3	3	0.10	16	0	0	0.0	0	0
2013-2014	Fin-Jr.	JyP Jr.	20	4	10	14	0.70	20	0	0	0.0	0	0
2013-2014	WJ18-A	Finland	5	1	0	1	0.20	0	-3	0	0.0	0	0
2013-2014	Fin-U18	JyP U18	1	0	3	3	3.00	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
2012-2013	Fin-Jr.	JyP Jr.	30	0	8	8	0.27	22	0	0	0.0	0	0
2012-2013	Fin-U18	JyP U18	3	2	1	3	1.00	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
2011-2012	Fin-U18	JyP U18	17	1	1	2	0.12	0	0	0	0.0	0	0
2010-2011	Jr. C SM-sarja Q	JYP U16	9	1	2	3	0.33	4	0	0	0.0	0	0

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/G	84GP Pace	+/-	PIM	SOG	S%	SOG/G	HITS	PPG	PPP	SHG	SHP	BLKS	FOW	FOW%	PPTOI	%PP	%SH	TOI

Career Stats (Per Game)

Season	Team	GP	G	G/GP	A	A/GP	PTS	PTS/G	PIM	PIM/GP	SOG	SOG/GP	PPP	PPP/GP	HITS	HITS/GP	BKS	BKS/GP	FOW	FOW/GP

Career Stats (Non-NHL)

AHL Profile Page

Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/G	PIM	+/-	NHLe
2025-2026	NL	Lausanne HC	6	0	3	3	0.50	0	0	20
2024-2025	NL	EHC Kloten	9	0	1	1	0.11	4	-8	4
2023-2024	Liiga	Ilves	5	0	1	1	0.20	2	1	8
2021-2022	AHL	Laval Rocket	15	0	11	11	0.73	10	2	30
2017-2018	AHL	Manitoba Moose	9	1	2	3	0.33	2	-1	14
2016-2017	Liiga	JYP	15	1	5	6	0.40	2	-1	15
2014-2015	Finland-2	JYP-Akatemia	6	0	5	5	0.83	4	0
2012-2013	Fin-Jr.	JyP Jr.	6	0	0	0	0.00	2	0
2011-2012	U16 SM-sarja	JYP U16	3	0	3	3	1.00	0	0
2010-2011	U16 SM-sarja	JYP U16	3	0	0	0	0.00	0	0

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/G	84GP Pace	+/-	SOG	S%	SOG/G	HITS	PPP	BLKS	PPTOI	%PP	%SH	TOI
2021-2022	MTL	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	-1	1	0.0	1.0	0	0	0	00:00	0.0	0.0	05:26
2019-2020	WPG	1	0	2	2	2.00	168	2	0	0.0	0.0	1	0	2	01:32	33.1	44.4	20:59
2018-2019	WPG	5	2	2	4	0.80	67	-3	8	25.0	1.6	2	1	6	01:40	29.3	2.3	17:34
2017-2018	WPG	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	-1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0	00:00	0.0	0.0	10:41
CAREER		8	2	4	6	0.75	63	-3	9	22.2	1.1	3	1	8	01:14	19.3	8.0	15:37

Career Stats (Per Game)

Season	Team	GP	G	G/GP	A	A/GP	PTS	PTS/G	SOG	SOG/GP	PPP	PPP/GP	HITS	HITS/GP	BKS	BKS/GP
2021-2022	MTL	1	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	1.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
2019-2020	WPG	1	0	0.00	2	2.00	2	2.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	1	1.00	2	2.00
2018-2019	WPG	5	2	0.40	2	0.40	4	0.80	8	1.60	1	0.20	2	0.40	6	1.20
2017-2018	WPG	1	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00

Regular Season Quarterly Comparison

2026-2027

Quarter	PPTOI	TOI
1	0:0	0:0
2	0:0	0:0
3	0:0	0:0
4	0:0	0:0

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Quarter	Line Combination

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Quarter	PPTOI	TOI
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Advanced Stats

Year	PDO	5 on 5 S%	OZ Start%	PTS/60	SOG/60	%PP	IPP	PPIPP	CF%	Sec Assists	Sec Assist %

Expected Goals

Year	GF 5v5	xGF 5v5	xGF/60	GA 5v5	xGA 5v5	xGA/60	xG% 5v5

NHL Edge

		Skating Speed				Skating Distance								Shot Speed						Shot Location						Zone Time%
Season	Shot Map	Top speed	22+ MPH	20+ MPH	18+ MPH	Tot. dist	Tot. dist/60	Tot. dist EV	Tot. dist/60 EV	Tot. dist PP	Tot. dist/60 PP	Tot. dist PK	Tot. dist/60 PK	Top Speed	AVG Speed	100+	90-100	80-90	70-80	High Danger SOG	High Danger G	Mid Danger SOG	Mid Danger G	Long SOG	Long G	Off Zone	Def Zone	OZ - EV	DZ - EV	OZ - PP	DZ - PP	OZ - PK	DZ - PK

Extended Game Log

Date	OPP	TEAM	CF	CA	CF%	GF 5v5	xGF 5v5	xGF/60	GA 5v5	xGA 5v5	xGA/60	xG% 5v5

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Even Strength Line Combinations

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Even Strength Line Production

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Power Play Line Combinations

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Power Play Line Production

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Age	29.9	Birth Date	1996-10-10
Shoots	L	Draft Info	2015 (7/198)
Height	6'1	Fantrax Roster%	0
Weight	176	Yahoo Roster%	0
Country	FIN	Status	Off Roster

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Pos: LW

Age: 25

Shoots: L

Height: 6'1

Weight: 205

GP: LW

TOI: 25

PP: L

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