Aleksi Heponiemi

#20Center27 years oldShoots L5'10"154 lb

2022-23 regular season

SOG

16.7% SH

8:35

TOI/GP

C · FLA · NHL id 8480037

Aleksi Heponiemi has played 10 games for the Florida Panthers in 2022-23, scoring 1 goal and 2 assists (3 points) on 6 shots while averaging 8:35 a night (8:24 at even strength, 0:05 on the power play and 0:01 shorthanded). At 5v5 the Panthers have controlled 35% of shot attempts with Heponiemi on the ice (4-5 in goals, 63% offensive-zone starts). In the Panthers' most recent game against BOS he was on L4 with Zac Dalpe and Grigori Denisenko and off the power play; started killing penalties in the last game. He is shooting 16.7% this season against 7.1% across the 25 games in our data.

Right now

From the Dec 19 game vs BOS, detected from shift data

Line

Zac Dalpe Grigori Denisenko

Power play

No PP unit

Penalty kill

No PK unit

Started killing penalties in the last gameLast 5: L4 · L4 · L4 · L4 · L4

Deployment timeline

2022-23 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
5-game average
Did not play
▲ promoted · ▼ demoted

9 games shown, 8:16 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2022-23 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 10 GP in 2022-23: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed30th3021.7 mph

Bursts 20+ mph16th178

Hardest shot4th565.0 mph

Offensive-zone time3rd336.9%

Distance skated16th1613.6 mi

High-danger SOG18th184

Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2022-23 · 8 attempts, 6 on goal, 1 goal

Even strength
Power play
Penalty kill
Goal
Shot on goal
Missed
Blocked

Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Puck luck

2022-23 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

Actual goals
Expected
±1σ
Above expected
Below expected

Beyond the box score

2022-23 regular season · 7 of 10 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

Method Leaders

: +0.016
Season net: +0.02xG

Offensive TK/600.71 (1)

Offensive GV/600.71 (1)

Neutral TK/600.00 (0)

Neutral GV/600.00 (0)

Defensive TK/600.00 (0)

Defensive GV/600.00 (0)

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

Method Leaders

Per 100 draws: +0.585
Season: +0.01G
: 100.0%2 draws

Wins by zone: OZ 1-0 · NZ 1-0 · DZ 0-0

Method Leaders

Per 60: 0.71
Attempts: 1
: 0.024

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

Method Leaders

Season: +0.00G
Per 60: +0.000
Drawn / taken: 1 / 1minors

Method Leaders

: 35.7%
: 44.4%
: 37.3%
Transition CF/60: 5.0
Turnovers won/60: 13.6
Turnovers lost/60: 12.8

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

Linemates

2022-23 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Heponiemi

No 5v5 pairing data this season yet.

Game log

10 games in 2022-23, newest first

Season

Date	Opp	Result	G	A	P	+/-		PIM	HIT	BLK			EV	PP	PK
Dec 19	@ BOS	L 3-7	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	100%	8:01	7:50	—	0:11
Dec 17	@ NJD	W 4-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	—	6:56	6:56	—	—
Dec 15	vs PIT	L 2-4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	—	8:13	8:13	—	—
Dec 6	@ WPG	L 2-5	0	0	0	+1	0	0	0	0	—	8:26	8:26	—	—
Dec 3	@ SEA	W 5-1	1	0	1	+1	2	0	2	0	—	8:24	8:24	—	—
Dec 1	@ VAN	W 5-1	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	—	9:20	8:29	—	—
Nov 29	@ CGY	L 2-6	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	—	8:05	7:23	0:42	—
Nov 28	@ EDM	OTL 3-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	7:31	7:31	—	—
Nov 9	vs CAR	W 3-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	10:15	10:15	—	—
Nov 6	@ ANA	W 5-3	0	1	1	+1	1	0	0	1	100%	10:42	10:37	0:04	—

Season splits by strength

2022-23 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

Strength	GP		TOI/GP						SA	GF	GA	GF%
All situations	10	85:53	8:35	54	101	34.8%	32.3%	30	55	4	5	44%	2.3	4.0	64%
Even strength	10	84:04	8:24	53	98	35.1%	32.5%	29	52	4	5	44%	2.2	3.7	63%
5v5	10	84:04	8:24	53	98	35.1%	32.5%	29	52	4	5	44%	2.2	3.7	63%
Power play	2	0:46	0:23	1	1	50.0%	50.0%	1	1	0	0	—	0.1	0.1	100%
Penalty kill	1	0:11	0:11	0	0	—	—	0	0	0	0	—	0.0	0.0	—

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

Season	Team	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM			HIT	BLK	TOI/GP
2022-23	FLA	10	1	2	3	-1	2	6	16.7%	2	1	8:35
2021-22	FLA	6	0	1	1	-6	2	7	0.0%	0	1	14:02
2020-21	FLA	9	1	1	2	+1	2	15	6.7%	0	1	12:14

On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.

Right now

Deployment timeline

NHL EDGE tracking

Shot map

Puck luck

Beyond the box score

Turnover LedgerTurnover Ledger (TO±)Takeaways credited and giveaways charged at the league xG value of the zone where possession changed, per 60.Glossary →

Draw EquityDraw Equity (DrEq)Faceoff results in goals: each win or loss scored against a coin flip and weighted by the zone. 100 extra offensive- or defensive-zone wins are worth about 1.9 goals.Σ (win − 0.5) × V(zone)Glossary →

Transition attemptsTransition attempt (TRN)An attempt within 10 s of a turnover, recovery, hit-forced recovery or faceoff win in the neutral or defensive zone, in the same play.Glossary →

Penalty ValuePenalty Value (PenV)Minor penalties drawn minus taken, times the net xG of a power play (about 0.20 per two-minute minor).(minors drawn − minors taken) × 0.20Glossary →

On-ice sequence resultsSequence xG (sxG)xG adjusted for flurries: a rebound only counts for the chance that the earlier shots in the same play did not already score.sxG_i = xG_i × Π (1 − xG_j) over earlier same-team shots in the playGlossary →

Linemates

Game log

Season splits by strength

Career by season