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Joona Saarelainen
C · 5′9″ / 193 lb · Shoots L · Mikkeli, FIN · Age 20 · 2024 #149 by TBL
Overview
No NHL record yet.
The official NHL landing carries no regular-season NHL game for Joona Saarelainen. Nothing here is reported as zero. The pre-NHL record below is the whole file.
What this draft slot returns.
Rates: insufficient sample (n=7 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Sample: 7 forwards taken #149, 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).
Career
Season by season.
No NHL regular-season row is available.
No NHL playoff row is available.
Before the NHL.
| Season | League | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Champions HL | KalPa | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | Liiga | KalPa | 51 | 8 | 16 | 24 |
| 2025-26 | Liiga | KalPa | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2024-25 | Liiga | KalPa | 21 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2024-25 | Mestis | Hokki | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024-25 | U20 SM-sarja | KalPa U20 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 2024-25 | WJC-20 | Finland U20 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | Liiga | KalPa | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | U20 SM-sarja | KalPa U20 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023-24 | Hlinka Gretzky Cup | Finland U18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | Liiga | KalPa | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-24 | Spengler Cup | KalPa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | U18 SM-sarja | KalPa U18 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023-24 | U20 SM-sarja | KalPa U20 | 41 | 13 | 23 | 36 |
| 2023-24 | WJC-18 | Finland U18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023-24 | Mestis | IPK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | U18 SM-sarja | KalPa U18 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 15 |
| 2023-24 | U20 SM-sarja | KalPa U20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-23 | Hlinka Gretzky Cup | Finland U18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022-23 | U18 SM-sarja | Jukurit U18 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2022-23 | U18 SM-sarja | KalPa U18 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2022-23 | U20 SM-sarja | Jukurit U20 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | U20 SM-sarja | KalPa U20 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2022-23 | WHC-17 | Finland U17 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Showing the 24 most recent pre-NHL rows of 30.
The comparable set.
Selection rule. Joona Saarelainen has no official NHL regular-season game, so the career-similarity rule cannot run. There is nothing to match on. Instead: every player taken within five picks of #149 in the 2024 draft, with what each one has actually done since. 10 neighbours on the board.
Draft neighbours share a night and a scouting consensus, nothing else. Their careers are evidence about the slot, not about this player.
Game log
Compare observed minutes, shots and finishing across game windows →
The complete game ledger.
There is no 2025-26 game-log receipt on file for Joona Saarelainen. 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.
Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
No Edge tracking on file for Joona Saarelainen. 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.
No Edge shot-location detail on file for Joona Saarelainen. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Joona Saarelainen 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.
The development file.
The source receipt.
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.