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Nicklas Backstrom

CFA · age 38 · 2025-26 · drafted 2006 by WSH, round 1, #4 overallCompare with…
SHL
League
45
GP
3
G
27
A
30
P
0.67
P/GP
0.39
NHL-equiv. P/GP
37.8
Age
0.000.601.211.0112-13KHLage 24.80.9613-14NHLage 25.80.9514-15NHLage 26.80.9315-16NHLage 27.81.0516-17NHLage 28.80.8817-18NHLage 29.80.9318-19NHLage 30.80.8919-20NHLage 31.80.9620-21NHLage 32.80.6621-22NHLage 33.80.5422-23NHLage 34.80.1323-24NHLage 35.80.3925-26SHLage 37.8

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.

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 25-26: SHL, 45 GP, 0.39 NHL-equivalent at 37.8. Also matched on draft slot, height, playing against adults and centre or wing. Then their NHL careers.

PlayerDraftedHtAt his ageGPPNHLeNHL GPNHL PP/GPBest NHL season
Jonathan Toews F#3, 20066'2"25-26 NHL82290.3511499120.7981 P in 82 GP, 18-19
Dick Axelsson F#62, 20066'2"24-25 Allsvenskan29310.4100–never played in the NHL
David Perron LW#26, 20076'0"25-26 NHL65280.4312398120.6666 P in 70 GP, 17-18
Nikolay Kulemin F#44, 20066'1"23-24 KHL46250.426692740.4157 P in 82 GP, 10-11
Jori Lehtera C#65, 20086'2"25-26 Liiga34280.453071110.3644 P in 75 GP, 14-15

4 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.

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