Returning regular · 2025-26

Jonathan Lekkerimäki

Vancouver Canucks · RW · R shot · age 22 at the dated snapshot.

Team: VAN
Lane: RW
Age: 22

Production and deployment

How the points were built

Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.

Games13

Goals2

Assists1

Points3

Even strength3all even-strength points

Power play0

Short handed0

Empty net0

5v5 points / 601.414

Average TOI11:41

PP TOI1:45

PK TOI0:00

Organizational context

3 RW regulars in VAN

The all-team median is 3.5. VAN’s farm system ranks #14 in the maintained two-board consensus.

Thin lane

Questions a GM still has to answer

How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?

Comparables at the same age

Who looked like this at 18 to 21

Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.

Comparables found8

Went on to two or more NHL seasons5 of 8

Their later peak (adjusted pts/game)0.64median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 15 U16 Div.1 1.11 → age 17 SHL 0.35 → age 18 HockeyAllsvenskan 0.31 → age 19 SHL 0.67 → age 20 NHL 0.25 → age 21 NHL 0.23

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Martin ChromiakR · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.03	age 22 AHL 0.26 → age 23 AHL 0.36
Cameron BergC · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.05	age 22 NCAA 0.35 → age 23 NCAA 0.32 → age 24 AHL 0.17
Blake ColemanL · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.05	age 22 NCAA 0.40 → age 23 NCAA 0.38 → age 24 AHL 0.23 → age 25 NHL 0.09 → age 26 NHL 0.32
Dmitri VoronkovL · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.06	age 22 KHL 0.44 → age 23 NHL 0.45 → age 24 NHL 0.64 → age 25 NHL 0.51
Cole O'HaraR · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.06	age 22 NCAA 0.49 → age 23 AHL 0.30
Lars EllerC · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.06	age 22 NHL 0.35 → age 23 NHL 0.65 → age 24 NHL 0.34 → age 25 NHL 0.35 → age 26 NHL 0.33
Ross ColtonC · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.07	age 22 AHL 0.21 → age 23 AHL 0.31 → age 24 NHL 0.40 → age 25 NHL 0.49 → age 26 NHL 0.40
Aliaksei ProtasL · matched at ages 18, 19, 20, 21	0.07	age 22 NHL 0.26 → age 23 NHL 0.37 → age 24 NHL 0.87 → age 25 NHL 0.68

Reading it

If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.

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