Jori Lehtera

C · 38.8 years old · Liiga 26-27

Drafted 2008 · round 3, 65 overall, STL

He does not play in the NHL yet, so this page carries what he has actually done rather than what we project. No forecast, no category value and no draft ranking: we model NHL seasons, and putting a number on a Liiga season we do not model would look like analysis and be a guess.

This season · 26-27

Liiga

League

0.25

P/GP

0.14

NHL-equiv. P/GP

38.7

Age

Trajectory · NHL-equivalent points per game

Each season's points per game times its league's translation factor (for example SHL 0.59, Liiga 0.54, AHL 0.44, Allsvenskan 0.38, CHL 0.28, J20 0.18): what a league's scoring has historically been worth in the NHL. A scoring translation, not a rating. A short current season is drawn lighter.

Players with a similar profile

Drafted players from 2005 to 2019 (3,192 of them, including the ones who never made it) whose season at his age looked most like his 25-26: Liiga, 34 GP, 0.45 NHL-equivalent at 37.7, after 0.63 the year before. Also matched on draft slot, height, playing against adults and centre or wing. Then their NHL careers.

Player	Drafted	Ht	At his age	GP	P	NHLe	NHL GP	NHL P	P/GP	Best NHL season
Dick Axelsson F	#62, 2006	6'2"	24-25 Allsvenskan	29	31	0.41	0	0	–	never played in the NHL
Linus Omark F	#97, 2007	5'10"	24-25 SHL	50	34	0.40	79	32	0.41	27 P in 51 GP, 10-11
Sergei Shirokov F	#163, 2006	5'10"	23-24 KHL	57	27	0.36	8	1	0.12	1 P in 2 GP, 10-11
Nikolay Kulemin F	#44, 2006	6'1"	23-24 KHL	46	25	0.42	669	274	0.41	57 P in 82 GP, 10-11
David Perron LW	#26, 2007	6'0"	25-26 NHL	65	28	0.43	1239	812	0.66	66 P in 70 GP, 17-18

2 of 5 played 200 or more NHL games; 1 never played in the NHL. How players like this turned out, not a forecast for him.

Season by season

Season	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM
26-27	Liiga	4	0	1	1	0.25	2
25-26	Liiga	34	2	26	28	0.82	39
24-25	Liiga	51	7	52	59	1.16	14
23-24	Liiga	57	6	50	56	0.98	36
22-23	Liiga	57	11	46	57	1	45
21-22	KHL	45	10	29	39	0.87	21
20-21	KHL	41	9	35	44	1.07	17
19-20	KHL	51	15	15	30	0.59	26
13-14	KHL	48	12	32	44	0.92	22
12-13	KHL	52	17	29	46	0.88	46
11-12	KHL	25	10	16	26	1.04	10

Liiga game log

Date		Opp	A	P	PIM	SOG	+/-
2026-09-16	vs	Jukurit	0	0	0	1	0
2026-09-09	@	Jukurit	0	0	0	4	-2
2026-09-05	@	TPS	1	1	0	4	0
2026-09-04	vs	HPK	0	0	2	3	0