Linus Karlsson

RW · 26.9 years old · AHL 24-25

Drafted 2018 · round 3, 87 overall, SJS

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

This season · 26-27

NHL

League

1.00

P/GP

1.00

NHL-equiv. P/GP

26.8

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, 79 GP, 0.44 NHL-equivalent at 25.8, after 0.42 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
Aleksi Saarela C	#89, 2015	5'10"	22-23 Swiss NL	48	39	0.45	9	4	0.44	4 P in 9 GP, 19-20
T.J. Hensick C	#88, 2005	5'10"	11-12 AHL	66	70	0.47	112	38	0.34	21 P in 61 GP, 08-09
Chase De Leo C	#99, 2014	5'9"	21-22 NHL + AHL	57	56	0.43	7	0	0.00	0 P in 1 GP, 18-19
Julius Nattinen C	#59, 2015	6'1"	22-23 Liiga	38	32	0.46	0	0	–	never played in the NHL
Craig Smith C	#98, 2009	6'1"	15-16 NHL	82	37	0.45	987	452	0.46	52 P in 79 GP, 13-14

1 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.

Season by season

Season	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM
24-25	AHL	32	23	16	39	1.22	24
23-24	AHL	60	23	37	60	1	30
22-23	AHL	72	24	25	49	0.68	72
21-22	SHL	52	26	20	46	0.88	18
20-21	Allsvenskan	52	20	31	51	0.98	32
19-20	Allsvenskan	36	8	14	22	0.61	18
18-19	Allsvenskan	52	5	13	18	0.35	59

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.