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 / 0.6
- • 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+2352nd 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
teammates' average xGF%
13th percentile · higher = stronger linemates
opponents' average ice-time share
68th percentile · higher = faces more top-line minutes
Hard minutes: tough opponents with little help from linemates.
QoT averages the season xGF% of Pyyhtia's 5v5 teammates; QoC averages how much of their team's ice time Pyyhtia's opponents get, so a high QoC means facing top lines. Both are weighted by time shared on the ice, lean on last season for small samples, and are ranked within forwards or defence.
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.