7 G · 17 A · 66 GP
0.364 P/GP · 4 PPP · 11:22 ATOI
Colorado Avalanche#48Retired
Valtteri Puustinen
R · 5′11″ / 180 lb · Shoots R · Kuopio, FIN · Age 27 · 2019 #203 by PIT
24Career points
0.364Career P/GP
66Games played
7Goals
3 seasonsNHL service
Overview
2024-253points
The last read.
3 points in 13 games in 2024-25, his most recent NHL season. Career: 24 points across 66 games.
13GP
2goals
1assists
3points
8shots
2PP points
The career ledger.
Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing
0 G · 0 A · 0 GP
— P/GP · 0 PPP · — ATOI
The arc.
Points and points per game by seasonNHL season log · 3 seasons
Last five games.
Most recent official appearancesofficial game log
2025-04-17vs WSH9:31 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2025-04-13vs BOS8:12 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S
2025-04-11@ NJD12:00 TOI1G 0A1 P · 1 S
2024-11-15@ CBJ9:33 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2024-11-13vs DET8:33 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S
What this draft slot returns.
Base rate for the exact pick, a history, never a forecastdraft-position study · 2026-07-14-prospect-translation-v2.32
2019 draft#203round 7 · PIT
Rates: insufficient sample (n=5 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Sample: 5 forwards taken #203, drawn only from classes old enough to judge, on the Schuckers-style pick curve published on Draft Value. A base rate describes a slot, not a person: it cannot predict this career and is not used to grade it.
Floor rule: rates below a minimum sample are suppressed, not shown thin. Exact slot needs 12+ players, the pooled pick-curve band needs 32+, matching this site's builders to the nhl-draft-intel engine's own bucket-calibration floors (12 / 18 / 32).
Against history.
Percentile against every NHL peercareer totals · position-aware
The height of the career.
Peak season and the best five41+ GP qualified seasons
2021-22 peak: 1 GP / 0 G / 1 A / 1 Pts / 1.000 P/GP · 10:14 TOI
| Best five | GP | G | A | PTS | P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 52 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 0.385 |
| Prime-five | 52 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 0.385 |
Career
Where he stands right now.
2025-26 league position and career shapeNHL league browser 2025-26
Season by season.
Every NHL season · peak highlighted, split seasons kept apart3 regular-season rows
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 2 | 8 |
| 2023-24 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 52 | 5 | 15 | 20 | +4 | 2 | 86 |
| 2021-22Peak | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 1 |
No NHL playoff row is available.
Before the NHL.
Junior, college, European and international rowsofficial NHL landing · season totals
| Season | League | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 35 | 7 | 19 | 26 |
| 2025-26 | AHL | Colorado Eagles | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 48 | 16 | 19 | 35 |
| 2024-25 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 24 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2023-24 | EHT | Finland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-24 | WC | Finland | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 72 | 24 | 35 | 59 |
| 2021-22 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 73 | 20 | 22 | 42 |
| 2021-22 | AHL | Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020-21 | EHT | Finland | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020-21 | Liiga | HPK | 51 | 21 | 20 | 41 |
| 2020-21 | WC | Finland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019-20 | Champions HL | HPK | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019-20 | EHT | Finland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019-20 | Liiga | HPK | 54 | 17 | 23 | 40 |
| 2018-19 | Liiga | HPK | 47 | 10 | 3 | 13 |
| 2018-19 | U20 SM-liiga | HPK U20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2018-19 | WJC-20 | Finland U20 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018-19 | Liiga | HPK | 16 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017-18 | U20 SM-liiga | HPK U20 | 52 | 15 | 19 | 34 |
| 2017-18 | U20 SM-liiga | HPK U20 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2016-17 | U18 SM-sarja | HPK U18 | 44 | 8 | 25 | 33 |
Showing the 24 most recent pre-NHL rows of 28.
The comparable set.
Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers
Selection rule. Forwards only; career games played within ±20% of 66 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 53 to 79); then the five nearest by career P/GP, ties broken by the closest games played. The pool is the 1,162 players in this site's NHL dossier set who own at least one official regular-season game: 38 of them cleared the band.
Danila YurovR · 2022 #24 · active73 GP · 12 G · 15 A · 27 P0.370 P/GP · +0.006Oliver MooreC · 2023 #19 · active60 GP · 5 G · 18 A · 23 P0.383 P/GP · +0.020Jiri KulichC · 2022 #28 · active75 GP · 18 G · 11 A · 29 P0.387 P/GP · +0.023Matthew PoitrasC · 2022 #54 · active69 GP · 7 G · 20 A · 27 P0.391 P/GP · +0.028Alex SteevesC · Undrafted · active57 GP · 10 G · 9 A · 19 P0.333 P/GP · −0.030
Similar career shape is not similar player. The rule matches volume and rate only; it knows nothing about era, position within the group, usage or role, and two careers can land on the same line for opposite reasons.
Game log
Compare observed minutes, shots and finishing across game windows →
The complete game ledger.
Per-game official box scoresofficial NHL game log
There is no 2025-26 game-log receipt on file for Valtteri Puustinen. The complete ledger is only collected for players who dressed for an NHL club in that season, so nothing here is reported as a run of zeroes. The most recent official appearances on the player landing are below.
Recent form.
Last five official NHL gamesofficial game log
| Date | Opponent | TOI | G | A | PTS | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-17 | vs WSH | 9:31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025-04-13 | vs BOS | 8:12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-04-11 | at NJD | 12:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-11-15 | at CBJ | 9:33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024-11-13 | vs DET | 8:33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
Measured puck and player trackingNHL Edge tracking · api-web.nhle.com · coverage from 2021-22 · fetched 2026-08-17
No Edge tracking on file for Valtteri Puustinen. The league publishes Edge for skaters from 2021-22 onward, and only for players it tracked in the covered season. Nothing is drawn here as a zero, because the absence is a coverage fact rather than a measurement.
The shot map.
Where his shots came from, in the league's own areasNHL Edge shot-location detail · api-web.nhle.com · fetched 2026-08-18
No Edge shot-location detail on file for Valtteri Puustinen. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Valtteri Puustinen is not in that set for 2025-26. Nothing is drawn as a zero, because an absence from the feed is a coverage fact rather than a measurement.
Against the goaltenders.
Goaltenders faced, from play-by-playNHL play-by-play · 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 4,192 games · fetched 2026-08-18
Valtteri Puustinen has faced 39 goaltenders in this dataset but none of them for the 20 shots on goal a published rate requires here. The counts exist; the rates would be noise, so they are not printed.
The source receipt.
Official basics plus named researchOfficial NHL API Web player landing, with local nhl api draft cache reuse
Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.
Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.
The room.
Every current Colorado Avalanche teammate, one click awaycanonical player directory