Kasperi Kapanen

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FinlandFinland  Kasperi Kapanen Ice hockey player
Kasperi Kapanen
Date of birth July 23, 1996
place of birth Kuopio , Finland
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2013 , 1st lap, 25th position
Barys Astana
NHL Entry Draft 2014 , 1st round, 22nd position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
2013-2015 KalPa
2015 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2015-2018 Toronto Marlies
2016-2020 Toronto Maple Leafs
since 2020 Pittsburgh Penguins

Kasperi Kapanen (born July 23, 1996 in Kuopio ) is a Finnish ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League since August 2020 . The right winger previously spent five years in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization .

Career

youth

Kapanen started playing ice hockey at the age of four. Since his youth he played for KalPa , the Finnish club for which his father and uncle were or are already active; so he went through the U16 and the U18 there. After representing Finland at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games and the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2012 and winning a gold and a silver medal with the team, he made his debut in the professional squad of KalPa in the 2012/13 season. His father Sami was both an active player and co-owner of the club at the time, so that father and son were together in a game on the ice in January 2013. A little later he was selected in the KHL Junior Draft in 25th position by Barys Astana .

In 2013 he also took part in the U18 World Cup with the Finnish U18 national team , where he topped his team's top scorer list with five goals. The team won the bronze medal. Also in the next year he took part in the tournament with Finland and was eliminated from Sweden in the quarter-finals.

NHL

In the upcoming NHL Entry Draft 2014 , Kapanen was considered one of the most promising talents in Europe, so the Central Scouting Service put him at number one on the list of European candidates. In the actual draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins then selected him in 22nd position and accepted him into the team in July 2014 with an entry contract . In the 2014/15 season, however, Kapanen continued to play on loan at KalPa before he was called to the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League in March and played eleven games there. He also played for the first time in the U20 World Cup for Finland and finished seventh with the team there.

In July 2015 he was handed over to the Toronto Maple Leafs along with Nick Spaling , Scott Harrington and a first- and a third-round vote for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft . In return, Phil Kessel , Tim Erixon , Tyler Biggs and a second-round vote for the same draft moved to Pittsburgh. The following season 2015/16 began Kapanen with the Toronto Marlies in the AHL, the farm team of the Maple Leafs. At the turn of the year he was again part of the Finnish U20 national team , which won the gold medal at the 2016 World Cup in his own country. Kapanen scored the decisive 4: 3 in overtime in the final against Russia . At the end of the 2015/16 season, Kapanen made his NHL debut for the Maple Leafs before establishing himself in their squad over the course of the 2017/18 season. He also made his debut for the senior national team of Finland at the 2018 World Cup and finished fifth with the team.

For the 2018/19 season, Kapanen increased his personal statistics significantly to 20 goals and 44 points and then signed a new three-year contract in Toronto in June 2019, which should bring him an average annual salary of 3.2 million US dollars. However, after essentially confirming this achievement the following year, the Maple Leafs handed him back to the Pittsburgh Penguins in August 2020. Together with him, Jesper Lindgren and the NHL rights to Pontus Åberg moved to the "Steel City", while Toronto received Evan Rodrigues , David Warsofsky , Filip Hållander and a first-round vote in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012/13 KalPa SM-liiga 13 4th 0 4th +1 2 4th 0 1 1 +1 2
2013/14 KalPa Liiga 47 7th 7th 14th -8th 10 - - - - - -
2014/15 KalPa Liiga 41 11 10 21st +2 14th 6th 0 5 5 +2 2
2014/15 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 4th 1 1 2 -1 0 7th 3 2 5 ± 0 0
2015/16 Toronto Marlies AHL 44 9 16 25th +7 8th 14th 3 5 8th +1 2
2015/16 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 9 0 0 0 -3 2 - - - - - -
2016/17 Toronto Marlies AHL 43 18th 25th 43 +2 16 9 2 6th 8th -2 8th
2016/17 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 8th 1 0 1 -2 0 6th 2 0 2 -2 0
2017/18 Toronto Marlies AHL 28 12 12 24 +8 12 - - - - - -
2017/18 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 38 7th 2 9 -1 4th 7th 1 0 1 -3 0
2018/19 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 78 20th 24 44 +12 27 7th 1 1 2 −1 2
2019/20 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 69 13 23 36 ± 0 22nd 5 0 2 2 -2 14th
(SM-) Liiga overall 101 22nd 17th 39 -5 26th 10 0 6th 6th +3 4th
AHL total 119 40 54 94 +16 36 30th 8th 13 21st -1 10
NHL overall 202 41 49 90 +6 55 25th 4th 3 7th -8th 16

International

Represented Finland at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt +/- SM
2012 Finland Youth Olympics 1st place, gold 6th 4th 2 6th +3 2
2012 Finland Hlinka Memorial 2nd place, silver 4th 1 1 2 +1 0
2013 Finland WHC 7th place 5 3 6th 9 4th
2013 Finland U18 World Cup 3rd place, bronze 7th 5 3 8th +4 4th
2014 Finland U18 World Cup 6th place 5 1 1 2 -3 0
2015 Finland U20 World Cup 7th place 5 1 0 1 -1 0
2016 Finland U20 World Cup 1st place, gold 7th 2 3 5 -2 2
2018 Finland WM 5th place 8th 3 0 3 +1 0
Juniors overall 39 17th 16 33 12
Men overall 8th 3 0 3 +1 0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

family

Kasperi Kapanen comes from a hockey family. His father, Sami Kapanen , played in the NHL for over ten years and became world champion with Finland in 1995. His grandfather Hannu , his great uncle Jari and his uncle Kimmo were also professional ice hockey players.

Web links

Commons : Kasperi Kapanen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nhl.com: "Kasperi Kapanen set to take family name to next level" (English, September 23, 2013, accessed on May 17, 2014)
  2. ↑ sports.yahoo.com: "Sami Kapanen's new teammate is his 16-year-old son, making us all feel ancient" (English, January 11, 2013, accessed May 17, 2015)
  3. ↑ nhl.com: "NHL CSS 2014 International skaters final rankings" (English, April 8, 2014, accessed May 17, 2014)
  4. ↑ Maple Leafs Sign Kapanen and Johnsson to Contract Extensions. nhl.com, June 28, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Penguins Acquire Kapanen, Aberg and Lindgren from Toronto. nhl.com, August 25, 2020, accessed on August 26, 2020 .
Squad of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the season 2019/20
personal data
SURNAME Kapanen, Kasperi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapanen, Kasper
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuopio , Finland