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Jesperi Kotkaniemi

#82

C · 6'3", 212 lb · 26 years old · Shoots left · Pori, FIN

Drafted 2018 · MTL · round 1 · #3 overall

Last 5 games

Date	Opp	G	A	PTS	SOG	+/−	TOI
Oct 18	@CGY	1	0	1	4	+1	12:46
Oct 17	@WPG	1	0	1	1	+1	10:00
Oct 13	WSH	0	0	0	1	-1	11:14
Oct 11	@PHI	0	0	0	2	0	10:43
Oct 10	@CHI	0	1	1	0	0	14:17

Against his position

This playerAverage forward

Against 443 forwards, on rates per 60 minutes so a shortened season is not read as a worse one.

Role

Hits / 607.94124th

Blocks / 601.98204th

Takeaways / 600.66236th

Giveaways / 603.31269th

Faceoff win %31.0%298th

Penalty minutes6326th

Off the radar because these describe a role rather than a quality — a shutdown defenceman blocks more than a power-play specialist, and neither is better for it.

NHL regular season

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/−	SOG	S%	TOI
2026-27	Carolina Hurricanes	8	2	2	4	+1	9	22.2	11:20
2025-26	Carolina Hurricanes	42	2	7	9	+3	42	4.8	11:21
2024-25	Carolina Hurricanes	78	12	21	33	+9	115	10.4	14:04
2023-24	Carolina Hurricanes	79	12	15	27	-4	128	9.4	12:59
2022-23	Carolina Hurricanes	82	18	25	43	+10	129	14.0	14:44
2021-22	Carolina Hurricanes	66	12	17	29	+3	81	14.8	12:01
2020-21	Montréal Canadiens	56	5	15	20	-1	87	5.7	14:48
2019-20	Montréal Canadiens	36	6	2	8	-11	55	10.9	13:00
2018-19	Montréal Canadiens	79	11	23	34	+1	134	8.2	13:44
Career		526	80	127	207	+11	780	10.3	13:27

Other competitions

Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	PTS
2020-21	Liiga	Ässät	10	2	6	8
2019-20	AHL	Laval Rocket	13	1	12	13
2017-18	Liiga	Ässät	57	10	19	29
2017-18	Ivan Hlinka Memorial	Finland U18	4	2	2	4
2017-18	WJC-18	Finland U18	7	3	6	9
2016-17	U20 SM-liiga	Ässät U20	17	9	6	15
2016-17	WJC-18	Finland U18	7	1	5	6
2015-16	U20 SM-liiga	Ässät U20	23	5	10	15
2015-16	U18 Mestis	Ässät U18	6	5	12	17
2015-16	YOG	Finland U16	6	3	4	7
2014-15	Jr. C SM-sarja	Ässät U16	30	21	12	33

Shot maps, expected goals and comparisons against league average at this position are coming to this page. They come from Puckflow’s own model rather than the NHL feed, and an empty chart would be worse than this sentence.