Ross Colton

C · 30.1 years old · NCAA 17-18

Drafted 2016 · round 4, 118 overall, TBL

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

This season · 26-27

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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, 73 GP, 0.33 NHL-equivalent at 29, after 0.47 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
Andreas Athanasiou C/LW	#110, 2012	6'0"	23-24 NHL	28	9	0.32	495	246	0.50	54 P in 76 GP, 18-19
Mario Kempe RW	#122, 2007	6'0"	17-18 NHL + AHL	65	41	0.31	70	13	0.19	9 P in 52 GP, 18-19
Danton Heinen C/LW	#116, 2014	6'0"	24-25 NHL	79	29	0.37	613	253	0.41	47 P in 77 GP, 17-18
Darren Helm F	#132, 2005	5'11"	15-16 NHL	77	26	0.34	823	266	0.32	33 P in 75 GP, 14-15
Peter Cehlarik LW	#90, 2013	6'2"	24-25 SHL	39	21	0.32	40	11	0.28	6 P in 20 GP, 18-19

3 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	NCAA	36	16	7	23	0.64	47
16-17	NCAA	33	12	15	27	0.82	22
15-16	USHL	55	35	31	66	1.2	79
14-15	USHL	58	18	15	33	0.57	22

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.