Valtteri Puustinen

#48Right Wing27 years oldShoots R5'11"181 lb

2024-25 regular season

SOG

25.0% SH

9:54

TOI/GP

RW · PIT · NHL id 8481703

Valtteri Puustinen has played 13 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2024-25, scoring 2 goals and 1 assist (3 points) on 8 shots while averaging 9:54 a night (8:46 at even strength, 1:06 on the power play and 0:00 shorthanded). At 5v5 the Penguins have controlled 43% of shot attempts with Puustinen on the ice (2-6 in goals, 58% offensive-zone starts). In the Penguins' most recent game against WSH he was on L4 with Sam Poulin and Vasily Ponomarev and on PP2; added to PP2 in the last game. He is shooting 25.0% this season against 7.4% across the 66 games in our data.

Right now

From the Apr 17 game vs WSH, detected from shift data

Line

Sam Poulin Vasily Ponomarev

Power play

PP2

Evgeni Malkin Erik Karlsson Danton Heinen Philip Tomasino

Penalty kill

No PK unit

Added to PP2 in the last gameLast 5: L4/PP2 · L4 · L3/PP2 · L4 · L4/PP2

Deployment timeline

2024-25 · 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

3 games shown, 9:54 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2023-24 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 13 GP in 2024-25; showing 2023-24 NHL EDGE data.

Top speed53rd5322.2 mph

Bursts 20+ mph62nd6382

Hardest shot86th8793.5 mph

Offensive-zone time72nd7243.9%

Distance skated41st4199.3 mi

High-danger SOG46th4626

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

2024-25 · 16 attempts, 8 on goal, 2 goals

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

2024-25 · cumulative goals against expected goals from his own shots

Actual goals
Expected
±1σ
Above expected
Below expected

Beyond the box score

2024-25 regular season · 11 of 13 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)

Method Leaders

: −0.011
Season net: −0.02xG

Offensive TK/600.00 (0)

Offensive GV/601.58 (3)

Neutral TK/600.53 (1)

Neutral GV/600.00 (0)

Defensive TK/601.05 (2)

Defensive GV/600.53 (1)

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

Method Leaders

Per 60: 0.00
Attempts: 0
: 0.000

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

Method Leaders

Season: −0.19G
Per 60: −0.088
Drawn / taken: 1 / 2minors

Method Leaders

: 51.8%
: 51.3%
: 52.5%
Transition CF/60: 2.6
Turnovers won/60: 21.6
Turnovers lost/60: 21.1

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

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

All alerts →

Moved down to L3 from L2Mar 14, 2024 alerts →
Dropped off PP1 to PP2Dec 31, 2023 alerts →
Dropped off PP1 to PP2Dec 30, 2023 alerts →

How the goals happened

7 goals since 2023-24 with NHL EDGE tracking: press Replay to watch the tracking animation

Method

Goal anatomy
Game	Play	Entry	Passes	Shot mph	Notes
Apr 11, 2025 @ NJD	Deflection	—	1	5.8	rebound
Oct 29, 2024 vs MIN	Cycle	—	2	51.6	—
Apr 17, 2024 @ NYI	Forecheck turnover	—	0	42.3	—
Mar 17, 2024 vs DET	Forecheck turnover	—	1	53.0	—
Mar 16, 2024 vs NYR	Odd-man rush	pass	0	70.1	3-on-1, one-timer
Feb 20, 2024 vs NYI	Rebound	—	0	14.1	rebound
Dec 27, 2023 @ NYI	Forecheck turnover	—	2*	79.6	one-timer

* includes a royal-road (cross-slot) pass. Derived from NHL EDGE puck and player tracking.

Linemates

2024-25 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Puustinen

No 5v5 pairing data this season yet.

Linemate and opposition quality

2024-25 · 5v5 · 113:55 on ice · ranked against 495 forwards

Quality of teammates (QoT)48.0%

28th percentile · higher = stronger linemates

Quality of competition (QoC)49.4%

9th percentile · higher = tougher opponents

Sheltered minutes: mostly faces weaker opposition.

Each value is the ice-time-weighted average season xGF% of the skaters Puustinen shared the 5v5 ice with, each shrunk toward 50%. 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

13 games in 2024-25, newest first

Season

Date	Opp	Result	G	A	P	+/-		PIM	HIT	BLK			EV	PP	PK
Apr 17	vs WSH	W 5-2	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	—	9:31	8:28	1:03	—
Apr 13	vs BOS	L 1-4	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	—	8:12	8:12	—	—
Apr 11	@ NJD	W 4-2	1	0	1	+1	1	0	1	0	—	12:00	10:34	1:26	—
Nov 15	@ CBJ	L 2-6	0	0	0	-1	1	0	2	0	—	9:33	8:55	0:38	—
Nov 13	vs DET	OTL 2-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	8:33	7:49	0:44	—
Nov 11	vs DAL	L 1-7	0	1	1	-1	1	0	1	0	—	11:09	11:09	—	—
Nov 8	@ WSH	W 4-2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	—	7:30	6:34	0:31	—
Nov 7	@ CAR	L 1-5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	9:16	6:47	2:29	—
Nov 2	vs MTL	W 3-1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	—	10:08	8:15	1:53	—
Oct 31	vs ANA	W 2-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	—	12:45	10:03	2:42	—
Oct 29	vs MIN	L 3-5	1	0	1	-1	1	0	0	1	—	11:50	10:39	1:11	—
Oct 26	@ VAN	L 3-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	—	8:15	6:36	1:39	—
Oct 20	@ WPG	L 3-6	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	2	—	9:54	9:54	—	—

Season splits by strength

2024-25 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

Strength	GP		TOI/GP						SA	GF	GA	GF%
All situations	13	128:36	9:54	108	115	48.4%	49.7%	55	58	4	6	40%	6.2	3.7	65%
Even strength	13	113:55	8:46	85	113	42.9%	43.1%	43	58	2	6	25%	4.1	3.7	58%
5v5	13	113:55	8:46	85	113	42.9%	43.1%	43	58	2	6	25%	4.1	3.7	58%
Power play	10	14:16	1:26	22	2	91.7%	90.5%	12	0	2	0	100%	2.1	0.1	100%
5v4	10	14:16	1:26	22	2	91.7%	90.5%	12	0	2	0	100%	2.1	0.1	100%

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
2024-25	PIT	13	2	1	3	-4	4	8	25.0%	10	5	9:54
2023-24	PIT	52	5	15	20	+4	6	86	5.8%	40	33	11:45
2021-22	PIT	1	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0.0%	1	0	10:14