Patrik Laine

L · 28.5 years old · Liiga 15-16

Drafted 2016 · round 1, 2 overall, WPG

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

This season · 25-26

NHL

League

0.20

P/GP

0.20

NHL-equiv. P/GP

27.4

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 24-25: NHL, 52 GP, 0.64 NHL-equivalent at 26.4, after 0.50 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
Bobby Ryan RW	#2, 2005	6'2"	13-14 NHL	70	48	0.69	866	569	0.66	71 P in 82 GP, 10-11
Nino Niederreiter RW	#5, 2010	6'2"	18-19 NHL	82	53	0.65	1030	499	0.48	57 P in 82 GP, 16-17
Jonathan Drouin LW	#3, 2013	5'10"	21-22 NHL	34	20	0.59	671	398	0.59	56 P in 79 GP, 23-24
James van Riemsdyk LW	#2, 2007	6'3"	15-16 NHL	40	29	0.72	1154	696	0.60	62 P in 82 GP, 16-17
Benoit Pouliot LW	#4, 2005	6'3"	12-13 NHL	34	20	0.59	625	263	0.42	36 P in 55 GP, 15-16

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
15-16	Liiga	46	17	16	33	0.72	6

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.