Valeri Nichushkin

R · 31.6 years old · KHL 17-18

Drafted 2013 · round 1, 10 overall, DAL

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 KHL season we do not model would look like analysis and be a guess.

This season · 26-27

NHL

League

0.50

P/GP

0.50

NHL-equiv. P/GP

31.5

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 25-26: NHL, 72 GP, 0.68 NHL-equivalent at 30.5, after 0.79 the year before. 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
Logan Couture C	#9, 2007	6'1"	19-20 NHL	52	39	0.75	933	701	0.75	70 P in 81 GP, 18-19
Kevin Hayes RW	#24, 2010	6'2"	22-23 NHL	81	54	0.67	805	446	0.55	54 P in 81 GP, 22-23
Josh Bailey C	#9, 2008	6'1"	20-21 NHL	54	35	0.65	1057	580	0.55	71 P in 76 GP, 17-18
T.J. Oshie C	#24, 2005	5'11"	17-18 NHL	74	47	0.64	1010	695	0.69	60 P in 79 GP, 13-14
Evgeny Kuznetsov C	#26, 2010	6'0"	22-23 NHL	81	55	0.68	743	575	0.77	83 P in 79 GP, 17-18

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

Season by season

Season	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM
17-18	KHL	50	16	11	27	0.54	14
16-17	KHL	36	11	13	24	0.67	9
12-13	KHL	18	4	2	6	0.33	0

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.