Ville Koivunen

LW · 23.3 years old · AHL 25-26

Drafted 2021 · round 2, 51 overall, CAR

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 AHL season we do not model would look like analysis and be a guess.

This season · 26-27

NHL

League

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P/GP

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NHL-equiv. P/GP

23.3

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: AHL + NHL, 73 GP, 0.34 NHL-equivalent at 22.3, after 0.45 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
Vladislav Firstov LW	#42, 2019	6'0"	23-24 KHL + AHL	77	39	0.37	0	0	–	never played in the NHL
Jeremy Bracco RW	#61, 2015	5'9"	19-20 AHL	44	34	0.34	0	0	–	never played in the NHL
Artturi Lehkonen LW	#55, 2013	5'11"	17-18 NHL	66	21	0.32	661	338	0.51	51 P in 64 GP, 22-23
Christian Dvorak LW	#58, 2014	6'0"	18-19 NHL + AHL	22	7	0.32	616	300	0.49	51 P in 80 GP, 25-26
Dylan Gambrell C	#60, 2016	5'11"	18-19 NHL + AHL	59	45	0.34	233	40	0.17	12 P in 49 GP, 20-21

3 of 5 played 200 or more NHL games; 2 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
25-26	AHL	34	13	28	41	1.21	42
24-25	AHL	63	21	35	56	0.89	52
23-24	Liiga	59	22	34	56	0.95	26
22-23	Liiga	52	12	16	28	0.54	26
22-23	AHL	12	1	0	1	0.08	4
21-22	Liiga	53	11	18	29	0.55	20

AHL game log

Date		Opp	G	A	P	PIM	SOG	+/-
2026-04-18	vs	ROC	1	1	2	0	3	+2
2026-04-17	vs	BRI	1	2	3	0	2	+1
2026-04-09	@	BRI	0	1	1	0	3	0
2026-04-04	@	LV	0	2	2	2	2	+2
2026-04-03	vs	LV	0	0	0	4	2	0
2026-03-22	@	TOR	0	0	0	0	0	-1
2026-03-04	vs	SPR	0	0	0	2	3	-1
2026-02-28	@	CLE	0	1	1	0	3	-2
2026-02-27	@	CLE	1	0	1	0	1	0
2026-02-22	@	BRI	0	1	1	0	1	+1
2026-02-21	vs	BRI	1	0	1	0	3	0
2026-02-18	@	SPR	2	0	2	2	4	+2
2026-02-15	vs	CLE	1	1	2	2	3	+1
2026-02-14	vs	SYR	0	0	0	2	1	0
2026-02-07	@	HER	0	2	2	2	0	0
2026-02-06	@	LV	1	3	4	2	1	+1
2026-02-04	vs	HER	0	1	1	2	3	+1
2026-02-01	@	LV	0	1	1	2	0	+1
2026-01-31	vs	SYR	0	0	0	2	0	+1
2026-01-24	vs	CLT	0	1	1	10	2	+1
2026-01-23	@	HER	1	1	2	2	5	+2
2026-01-21	vs	BEL	0	0	0	0	1	-3
2026-01-19	@	SPR	0	0	0	4	2	+1
2026-01-17	vs	HFD	0	1	1	0	0	0
2026-01-16	vs	HFD	0	0	0	0	0	-1
2026-01-14	@	PRO	0	1	1	0	0	+1
2026-01-10	@	CLT	0	1	1	0	3	-3
2026-01-09	@	CLT	0	0	0	0	2	0
2025-10-25	@	CLT	1	1	2	0	1	0
2025-10-24	@	CLT	1	2	3	2	2	+2
2025-10-22	vs	LV	1	1	2	0	3	+1
2025-10-18	@	BRI	1	1	2	0	4	+1
2025-10-17	@	HFD	0	0	0	0	0	0
2025-10-12	@	LV	0	2	2	0	0	+1