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Joona Väisänen
D · 6′0″ / 175 lb · Shoots R · Espoo, FIN · Age 22 · 2024 #175 by PIT
Overview
No NHL record yet.
The official NHL landing carries no regular-season NHL game for Joona Väisänen. Nothing here is reported as zero. The pre-NHL record below is the whole file.
What this draft slot returns.
Rates: insufficient sample (n=5 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Sample: 5 defencemen taken #175, 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 | NCAA | Western Michigan Univ. | 7 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2024-25 | NCAA | Western Michigan Univ. | 42 | 4 | 22 | 26 |
| 2023-24 | USHL | Dubuque Fighting Saints | 53 | 9 | 31 | 40 |
| 2023-24 | WJC-20 | Finland U20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | USHL | Dubuque Fighting Saints | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022-23 | U20 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U20 | 44 | 4 | 24 | 28 |
| 2021-22 | U18 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U18 Ch | 14 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2021-22 | U18 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U18 | 26 | 4 | 19 | 23 |
| 2021-22 | U20 Mestis | Kiekko-Espoo U20 Ch | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-22 | U20 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U20 Ch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021-22 | U20 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021-22 | U18 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U18 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020-21 | U18 Mestis | Kiekko-Espoo Blues U18 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2019-20 | U16 SM-sarja | Kiekko-Espoo U16 Ch | 14 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016-17 | QC Int PW | Blues Selects | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
The comparable set.
Selection rule. Joona Väisänen 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 #175 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 Väisänen. 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 Väisänen. 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 Väisänen. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Joona Väisänen 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.