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2022 NHL Draft

Aleksanteri Kaskimaki in the 2022 NHL Draft

St. Louis Blues selected Aleksanteri Kaskimaki 73rd overall in the 2022 NHL Draft, with the 8th pick of round 3.

He was the eighth of the 14 Finns selected that year. It was the second of the 6 picks St. Louis Blues made in the draft. Of the 225 players selected in 2022, 83 have played in the NHL regular season. His 13 games put him 55th in the class.

Overall pick
73
Round and pick
Round 3, pick 8
Drafting team
STLSt. Louis Blues
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 70–76 in the 2022 draft

  1. 70Alexander SuzdalevLWSH
  2. 71Alexander PerevalovLCAR
  3. 72Oskar PetterssonROTT
  4. 73Aleksanteri KaskimakiC13 GP · 2 PSTL
  5. 74Viktor NeuchevLBUF
  6. 75Vinzenz RohrerCMTL
  7. 76Michael FisherDSJS

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2022 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2022 class

8th
of 14 Finns selected
50th
of 132 forwards selected

Counted in draft order across the whole draft. The position is the one listed at the draft.

First Finns selected

  1. 17Joakim KemellR18 GP · 3 PNSH
  2. 30Brad LambertC42 GP · 9 PWPG
  3. 41Topias LeinonenGBUF
  4. 49Jani NymanR43 GP · 13 PSEA
  5. 58Nikke KokkoG4 GP · 1 WSEA
  6. 59Topi RonniCCGY
  7. 67Miko MatikkaRARI
  8. 73Aleksanteri KaskimakiC13 GP · 2 PSTL
  9. 84Kasper KulonummiDNSH
  10. 148Otto SalinDLAK

+ 4 more

Every pick from Finland in the 2022 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Aleksanteri Kaskimaki made his NHL debut on December 4, 2025, 3 years and 149 days after the draft.

13
Games
1
Goals
1
Assists
2
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

St. Louis Blues picks in the 2022 draft

  1. 23Jimmy SnuggerudR94 GP · 67 PSTL
  2. 73Aleksanteri KaskimakiC13 GP · 2 PSTL
  3. 88Michael BuchingerDSTL
  4. 120Arseni KoromyslovDSTL
  5. 152Marc-Andre GaudetDSTL
  6. 184Landon SimRSTL