Justin Abdelkader

L · 39.6 years old · NL 22-23

Drafted 2005 · round 2, 42 overall, DET

He does not play in the NHL yet, so this page carries what he has actually done rather than what we project. No forecast, no category value and no draft ranking: we model NHL seasons, and putting a number on a NL season we do not model would look like analysis and be a guess.

This season · 22-23

Swiss NL

League

0.21

P/GP

0.12

NHL-equiv. P/GP

35.6

Age

Trajectory · NHL-equivalent points per game

Each season's points per game times its league's translation factor (for example SHL 0.59, Liiga 0.54, AHL 0.44, Allsvenskan 0.38, CHL 0.28, J20 0.18): what a league's scoring has historically been worth in the NHL. A scoring translation, not a rating. A short current season is drawn lighter.

Players with a similar profile

Drafted players from 2005 to 2019 (3,192 of them, including the ones who never made it) whose season at his age looked most like his 22-23: Swiss NL, 24 GP, 0.12 NHL-equivalent at 35.6. Also matched on draft slot, height, playing against adults and centre or wing. Then their NHL careers.

Player	Drafted	Ht	At his age	GP	P	NHLe	NHL GP	NHL P	P/GP	Best NHL season
Vladimir Zharkov RW	#77, 2006	6'1"	23-24 KHL	33	5	0.12	82	14	0.17	10 P in 40 GP, 09-10
Jesse Joensuu F	#60, 2006	6'4"	23-24 Liiga	41	9	0.12	129	24	0.19	9 P in 42 GP, 10-11
Mattias Tedenby LW	#24, 2008	5'10"	25-26 SHL	48	10	0.12	120	30	0.25	22 P in 58 GP, 10-11
Juraj Mikus F	#121, 2005	6'1"	22-23 Slovakia	49	17	0.12	0	0	–	never played in the NHL
Artem Anisimov C	#54, 2006	6'4"	23-24 AHL	18	4	0.10	771	376	0.49	45 P in 64 GP, 16-17

1 of 5 played 200 or more NHL games; 1 never played in the NHL. How players like this turned out, not a forecast for him.

Season by season

Season	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM
22-23	NL	24	2	3	5	0.21	41
04-05	USHL	60	27	25	52	0.87	86

No games recorded since we started tracking him. The log is built by comparing his season totals from one morning to the next, so it begins the first time they move.