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Simon Despres

DFA · age 35 · 2025-26 · drafted 2009 by PIT, round 1, #30 overallCompare with…
DEL
League
52
GP
2
G
17
A
19
P
0.37
P/GP
0.15
NHL-equiv. P/GP
30.1
Age
0.000.180.350.1513-14NHLage 22.10.3114-15NHLage 23.10.1315-16NHLage 24.10.0016-17NHLage 25.10.1917-18KHLage 26.10.2419-20SHLage 28.10.2220-21DELage 29.10.1521-22DELage 30.1

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 21-22: DEL, 52 GP, 0.15 NHL-equivalent at 30.1, after 0.22 the year before. Also matched on draft slot, height, playing against adults. Then their NHL careers.

PlayerDraftedHtAt his ageGPPNHLeNHL GPNHL PP/GPBest NHL season
Brendan Mikkelson D#31, 20056'3"17-18 SHL50120.14131100.083 P in 41 GP, 11-12
Tommy Cross D#35, 20076'3"19-20 AHL50210.18310.331 P in 3 GP, 15-16
Ian McCoshen D#31, 20136'2"25-26 KHL6680.096070.124 P in 38 GP, 17-18
Joel Edmundson D#46, 20116'5"23-24 NHL5360.116861530.2223 P in 82 GP, 25-26
Xavier Ouellet D#48, 20116'0"23-24 AHL63250.17178280.1612 P in 66 GP, 16-17

1 of 5 played 200 or more NHL games. How players like this turned out, not a forecast for him.

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