LW · CBJ · NHL id 8482451
Mikael Pyyhtia has played 5 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets in 2025-26, scoring 1 goal and 0 assists (1 points) on 6 shots while averaging 10:16 a night (9:53 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 0:23 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 85% of his 5v5 minutes with Brendan Gaunce and 67% with Danton Heinen over the last 5 games, and the Blue Jackets have controlled 59% of shot attempts with Pyyhtia on the ice (1-2 in goals, 36% offensive-zone starts). In the Blue Jackets' most recent game against VAN he was on L4 with Brendan Gaunce and Danton Heinen and off the power play. He is shooting 16.7% this season against 8.1% across the 71 games in our data.
Right now
From the Jan 15 game vs VAN, detected from shift data
Deployment timeline
2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes
Usage: 5 games, 10:16 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- 5-game average
- Did not play
- ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
NHL EDGE tracking
2024-25 percentiles among skaters at his position
Only 5 GP in 2025-26; showing 2024-25 NHL EDGE data.
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
2025-26 · 15 attempts, 6 on goal, 1 goal
Shot map, OPP at CBJ: 15 attempts, 6 on goal, 1 goal, 0.63 expected goals; best chance Mikael Pyyhtia at 0.13 xG.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- Goal
- Shot on goal
- Missed
- Blocked
Luck
2025-26 · 5 GP · 1 points vs 1.2 expected
- 16.7%
- 92.5
- 100.0%
- G vs xG
- 1 / 0.5
- • Only 5 games: treat the meter as a hint.
- Actual goals
- Expected
- ±1σ
- Above expected
- Below expected
Player analytics
Compare with another player →2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among forwards. Each stat links to its explainer.
Fantasy box score
- Games played5
- Goals1
- Assists0
- Points1
- Shots on goal6
- Hits1
- Blocked shots2
- Plus/minus−1
- Penalty minutes0
Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)
- Corsi (CF%)59.2%
- Fenwick (FF%)59.2%
- Sequence xG (sxGF%)60.8%
Transition, turnovers & faceoffs
- Turnover Ledger /60+0.197
Usage
- Ice time per game10:16
- Offensive-zone start %35.7%
Special teams & discipline
Luck & trend
- On-ice PDO925
- Luck Meter+6343rd of 828
NHL EDGE tracking
- Hardest shot84.2
- Offensive-zone time44.9%
Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).
Beyond the box score
2024-25 regular season · 42 of 47 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)
- −0.035
- Season net
- −0.29xG
5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.
- Per 60
- 0.61
- Attempts
- 5
- 0.018
5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.
How the goals happened
5 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation
| Game | Play | Entry | Passes | Shot mph | Notes | Replay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2026 @ UTA | Rush | carry | 0 | 62.5 | — | |
| Jan 4, 2025 vs STL | Rush | carry | 1 | 55.7 | — | |
| Dec 21, 2024 @ PHI | Dump and chase | dump | 0 | 55.4 | 3-on-2 | |
| Dec 17, 2024 @ TBL | Forecheck turnover | — | 1 | 66.4 | — | |
| Oct 28, 2024 vs EDM | Rush | carry | 0 | 55.6 | one-timer |
* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.
Linemates
2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Pyyhtia
| Teammate | Pos | GP | Share | CF% together | GF% together | CF% Pyyhtia apart | CF% mate apart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendan Gaunce | C | 5 | 41:52 | 85% | 60.5% | 50% (1-1) | 52.9% 7:32 | 38.1% 10:52 |
| Danton Heinen | LW | 4 | 32:53 | 67% | 57.1% | 33% (1-2) | 62.5% 7:04 | 40.0% 5:40 |
| Ivan Provorov | D | 5 | 21:56 | 44% | 62.7% | 0% (0-2) | 55.8% 27:28 | 49.1% 82:45 |
| Zach Werenski | D | 5 | 18:33 | 38% | 60.0% | — (0-0) | 58.8% 30:51 | 54.8% 86:50 |
| Damon Severson | D | 4 | 17:39 | 36% | 59.5% | — (0-0) | 60.8% 25:01 | 56.7% 64:52 |
| Dante Fabbro | D | 5 | 14:55 | 30% | 54.8% | 50% (1-1) | 61.1% 34:29 | 48.6% 68:02 |
| Egor Zamula | D | 4 | 11:47 | 24% | 56.5% | 50% (1-1) | 58.7% 26:42 | 43.0% 53:35 |
| Zachary Aston-Reese | C | 1 | 9:10 | 19% | 64.7% | — (0-0) | — 0:17 | 0.0% 1:16 |
| Denton Mateychuk | D | 2 | 4:42 | 10% | 88.9% | — (0-0) | 50.0% 15:37 | 55.2% 27:00 |
| Jake Christiansen | D | 2 | 4:27 | 9% | 42.9% | — (0-0) | 65.0% 13:12 | 64.8% 17:55 |
| Erik Gudbranson | D | 1 | 4:15 | 9% | 37.5% | — (0-0) | 88.9% 6:40 | 63.4% 11:13 |
| Sean Monahan | C | 2 | 3:22 | 7% | 72.7% | — (0-0) | 61.3% 18:59 | 55.6% 24:00 |
| Boone Jenner | C | 2 | 3:13 | 7% | 66.7% | — (0-0) | 63.6% 19:08 | 49.1% 27:36 |
Linemate and opposition quality
2024-25 · 5v5 · 489 min on ice · ranked against 495 forwards · last season, until this season has enough games to rank
13th percentile · higher = stronger linemates
68th percentile · higher = tougher opponents
Hard minutes: tough opponents with little help from linemates.
Each value is the ice-time-weighted average season xGF% of the skaters Pyyhtia shared the 5v5 ice with. Small samples lean on each skater's previous season (or 50% for newcomers). Most skaters land between about 45% and 55% for QoT and 49% and 51% for QoC, so the percentile is the easier read.
Game log
5 games in 2025-26, newest first
| Date | Opp | Result | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | EV | PP | PK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | vs VAN | W 4-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:55 | 10:55 | — | — |
| Jan 13 | vs CGY | W 5-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 7:23 | 6:44 | — | 0:39 |
| Jan 11 | @ UTA | W 3-2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 11:54 | 11:26 | — | 0:28 |
| Jan 10 | @ COL | L 0-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | 11:39 | 10:52 | — | 0:47 |
| Jan 8 | @ VGK | L 3-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 9:27 | 9:27 | — | — |
Season splits by strength
2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data
| Strength | GP | TOI/GP | SA | GF | GA | GF% | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 5 | 51:18 | 10:16 | 61 | 50 | 55.0% | 55.3% | 20 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 25% | 2.1 | 2.4 | 36% |
| Even strength | 5 | 49:24 | 9:53 | 61 | 42 | 59.2% | 59.2% | 20 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 33% | 2.1 | 1.3 | 36% |
| 5v5 | 5 | 49:24 | 9:53 | 61 | 42 | 59.2% | 59.2% | 20 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 33% | 2.1 | 1.3 | 36% |
| Penalty kill | 3 | 1:54 | 0:38 | 0 | 8 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0% | 0.0 | 1.1 | — |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | CBJ | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 | 6 | 16.7% | 1 | 2 | 10:16 |
| 2024-25 | CBJ | 47 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -11 | 6 | 32 | 12.5% | 25 | 39 | 12:06 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 17 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -5 | 0 | 22 | 0.0% | 9 | 20 | 13:09 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 2 | 2 | 0.0% | 0 | 2 | 13:32 |
Mikael Pyyhtia news
- Blue Jackets' Mikael Pyyhtia: On non-roster injured reserveCBS Sports
- Mikael Pyyhtia StatsNHL.com
- Blue Jackets' Mikael Pyyhtia: Sustains lower-body injuryCBS Sports
- Mikael Pyyhtia HomeNHL.com
- Blue Columbus Blue Jackets re-sign depth forward Mikael PyyhtiaThe Columbus Dispatch
- Columbus Blue Jackets Re-Sign Mikael PyyhtiaYahoo Sports
- Blue Jackets sign Mikael Pyyhtia to two-year contract extensionNHL.com
- Blue Jackets Re-Sign Mikael PyyhtiaYardbarker
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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.