Jesperi Kotkaniemi

What strikes me about Jesperi Kotkaniemi is the weight he has carried so young. Drafted third overall in 2018, he arrived in the NHL with enormous expectations, and that kind of spotlight can crush a player. I respect that he kept grinding through it, changing teams and still anchoring the middle of the ice as a centre. At 188 cm and born in 2000, he has plenty of road ahead. I tend to root for the quietly resilient ones, and there is a certain Finnish steadiness about him that makes me believe his best, most settled years are still in front of him.

Name (English)

Jesperi Kotkaniemi

Name (Japanese)

イェスペリ・コトカニエミ

Reading

いぇすぺり・ことかにえみ

Born

July 6, 2000 (age 26)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Dragon

Origin

Pori, Satakunta, Finland

Height

188 cm

Occupation

ice hockey player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jesperikotkaniemi/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesperi%20Kotkaniemi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%88%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%9F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39400296

Tags

• Satakunta
• ice hockey player

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.