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Photo of NHL player Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Buffalo Sabres Logo Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Position Goaltender Current Team Buffalo Sabres
Catches Left Current Contract 5 years ($4.8M CapHit)
Height 6'5" Expires 2028-29
Weight (lbs) 223 Expiry Age (Jun 30) 30
Age (DOB) 27 (Mar 9, 1999) Expiry Status UFA
Drafted 2017, Round 2, Overall 54 (BUF)
Date Team Transaction
Feb 25, 2026 Buffalo Sabres Activated from IR
Feb 2, 2026 Buffalo Sabres Placed on IR
Oct 23, 2025 Buffalo Sabres Activated from IR
Oct 6, 2025 Buffalo Sabres Placed on IR
Aug 24, 2024 Buffalo Sabres Signed 5 years @ $4.750M AAV starting in 2024-25
Aug 31, 2022 Buffalo Sabres Signed 2 years @ $837K AAV starting in 2022-23
Jun 14, 2018 Buffalo Sabres Signed to an entry level contract.
Status History Coming Soon

About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary
  • Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
  • Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
  • 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
  • Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
  • Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
  • Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
  • Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
  • Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
  • Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
  • Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
  • 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
  • Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
  • Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
  • Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
  • 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Data Sources
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5v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2020-21 BUF 4 170:10 50.07 37.38 3.05 3.17 -0.13 91.51 91.85 -0.34
2021-22 BUF 9 427:05 46.78 33.16 2.52 2.81 -0.29 91.53 92.40 -0.88
2022-23 BUF 33 1549:46 42.78 31.82 2.97 3.21 -0.25 89.90 90.68 -0.77
2023-24 BUF 54 2509:02 40.99 27.52 2.49 2.34 0.15 91.49 90.94 0.54
2024-25 BUF 55 2531:56 41.33 27.35 2.50 2.75 -0.25 89.95 90.87 -0.92
2025-26 BUF 35 1614:40 40.39 26.12 2.49 2.27 0.22 91.32 90.48 0.85

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2020-21 BUF 4 14:42 130.61 81.63 13.32 8.16 5.15 90.00 83.69 6.31
2021-22 BUF 9 34:58 80.65 51.48 7.76 3.43 4.32 93.33 84.93 8.40
2022-23 BUF 33 112:56 100.94 72.79 10.37 10.63 -0.26 85.40 85.76 -0.36
2023-24 BUF 54 236:34 76.85 56.05 7.28 5.83 1.45 89.59 87.01 2.59
2024-25 BUF 55 234:32 73.42 49.89 6.96 7.93 -0.97 84.10 86.05 -1.95
2025-26 BUF 35 156:13 72.21 49.55 7.04 4.61 2.43 90.70 85.80 4.90

Legend

Percentile 0-25 Percentile 25-50 Percentile 50-75 Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic Definition
SAA/60Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%Save Percentage.
xSv%Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AESave Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).
Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

News and Opinions

Current Contract

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen signed a $23,750,000 5-year contract with the Buffalo Sabres and General Manager Kevyn Adams on August 24, 2024 with an AAV of $4,750,000. This contract will start in 2024-25 and end after the 2028-29 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 5.40% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2024-25 25 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 - $2,000,000 $2,750,000 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 RFA-arb
2025-26 26 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 - - $4,750,000 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 RFA-arb
2026-27 27 M-NTC $4,750,000 $4,750,000 - - $4,750,000 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 UFA
2027-28 28 M-NTC $4,750,000 $4,750,000 - - $4,750,000 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 UFA
2028-29 29 M-NTC $4,750,000 $4,750,000 - - $4,750,000 $4,750,000 $4,750,000 UFA
Total - $2,000,000 $21,750,000 $23,750,000 $23,750,000
Signed: Aug 24, 2024
Team: Buffalo Sabres
GM: Kevyn Adams
Exp. Status: UFA
Cap %: 5.4
Clause: Player can submit a 5 team no trade list in 2026-27, 2027-28 and 2028-29.

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen signed a $1,675,000 2-year contract with the Buffalo Sabres and General Manager Kevyn Adams on August 31, 2022 with an AAV of $837,500. This contract will start in 2022-23 and end after the 2023-24 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.02% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2022-23 23 $837,500 $837,500 - - $750,000 $750,000 $350,000 RFA
2023-24 24 $837,500 $837,500 - - $925,000 $925,000 $925,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $1,675,000 $1,675,000 $1,275,000
Signed: Aug 31, 2022
Team: Buffalo Sabres
GM: Kevyn Adams
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 1.02

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen signed a $2,427,500 3-year contract with the Buffalo Sabres and General Manager Jason Botterill on June 14, 2018 with an AAV of $792,500. This contract will start in 2018-19 and end after the 2021-22 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.00% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2018-19 19 $792,500 $925,000 - $92,500 - $92,500 - ELC
2019-20 20 $778,333 $910,833 $182,500 $92,500 $700,000 $792,500 $792,500 ELC
2020-21 21 $778,333 $910,833 $132,500 $92,500 $700,000 $792,500 $792,500 ELC
2021-22 22 $778,333 $910,833 $82,500 - $750,000 $750,000 $750,000 ELC
Total $397,500 $277,500 $2,150,000 $2,427,500 $2,335,000
Signed: June 14, 2018
Team: Buffalo Sabres
GM: Jason Botterill
Exp. Status: RFA
Note: This entry level contract slid one season as player did not meet the games played threshold to start the contract.

Career Statistics

Regular Season Playoffs
Season League Team GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv% GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv%
2013-14 Jr. B Suomi-sarj Jää-Ahmat U18 1 9.00 0.791
2014-15 Jr. C SM-sarja Q HPK U16 9 2.78 0.911
2015-16 WJC-18 Finland U18 3 3 72 6 2.00 0.917
2015-16 U18 SM-sarja HPK U18 31 0.901
2015-16 U20 SM-sarja HPK U20 15 1.98 0.924 8 1.94 0.920
2015-16 WHC-17 Finland U17 1 3.00 0.903
2016-17 WJC-18 Finland U18 6 5 1 178 18 2.90 0.899
2016-17 U20 SM-sarja HPK U20 35 1.78 0.917 9 2.01 0.915
2017-18 Liiga HPK 1 1 8 2 3.55 0.750
2017-18 Mestis LeKi 24 2.92 0.909
2017-18 WJC-20 Finland U20 5 2 3 132 16 3.13 0.879
2017-18 U20 SM-sarja HPK U20 2 2.50 0.924
2018-19 AHL Rochester Americans 1 1 34 2 2.00 0.941
2018-19 OHL Sudbury Wolves 53 38 11 4 1597 128 2.50 0.920 8 4 2 1 298 28 3.27 0.906
2018-19 WJC-20 Finland U20 6 3 2 162 11 1.80 0.932
2019-20 AHL Rochester Americans 10 3 4 3 253 32 3.15 0.874
2019-20 ECHL Cincinnati Cyclones 23 12 7 3 566 50 2.24 0.912
2020-21 NHL Buffalo Sabres 4 4 1 3 149 14 3.88 0.906
2020-21 Liiga TPS 13 6 3 4 360 33 2.52 0.908
2020-21 AHL Rochester Americans 14 7 5 2 438 49 3.60 0.888
2021-22 NHL Buffalo Sabres 9 9 2 5 2 277 23 2.74 0.917
2021-22 AHL Rochester Americans 35 15 14 6 1108 111 3.28 0.900
2022-23 NHL Buffalo Sabres 33 33 17 11 4 1054 115 3.61 0.892
2022-23 AHL Rochester Americans 9 6 3 265 27 3.07 0.898
2023-24 NHL Buffalo Sabres 54 54 27 22 4 1470 132 2.57 0.910
2024-25 NHL Buffalo Sabres 55 55 24 24 5 1490 169 3.20 0.887
2025-26 NHL Buffalo Sabres 35 35 22 9 3 930 85 2.52 0.910 5 5 3 2 112 14 3.36 0.875
2025-26 AHL Rochester Americans 1 1 23 2 2.01 0.913
NHL Career 190 190 93 74 18 5370 538 2.96 0.900 5 5 3 2 0 112 14 3.36 0.875