Kaapo Kakko

R · 25.6 years old · Liiga 18-19

Drafted 2019 · round 1, 2 overall, NYR

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

NHL

League

1.00

P/GP

1.00

NHL-equiv. P/GP

25.6

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: NHL, 65 GP, 0.61 NHL-equivalent at 24.6, after 0.56 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
Alex Galchenyuk C	#3, 2012	6'0"	18-19 NHL	72	41	0.57	654	354	0.54	56 P in 82 GP, 15-16
Evander Kane C	#4, 2009	6'2"	16-17 NHL	70	43	0.61	1001	648	0.65	57 P in 74 GP, 11-12
Derick Brassard C	#6, 2006	6'1"	12-13 NHL	47	29	0.62	1013	545	0.54	60 P in 80 GP, 14-15
Mikkel Boedker LW	#8, 2008	5'11"	14-15 NHL	45	28	0.62	709	327	0.46	51 P in 82 GP, 13-14
Jonathan Drouin LW	#3, 2013	5'10"	19-20 NHL	27	15	0.56	671	398	0.59	56 P in 79 GP, 23-24

5 of 5 played 200 or more NHL games. How players like this turned out, not a forecast for him.

Season by season

Season	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM
18-19	Liiga	45	22	16	38	0.84	10

No games recorded since we started tracking him. The log is built by comparing his season totals from one morning to the next, so it begins the first time they move.