William Eklund

LW · 24 years old · AHL 22-23

Drafted 2021 · round 1, 7 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

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P/GP

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NHL-equiv. P/GP

23.9

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, 78 GP, 0.68 NHL-equivalent at 22.9, after 0.75 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
Nazem Kadri C	#7, 2009	6'0"	13-14 NHL	78	50	0.64	1063	762	0.72	87 P in 71 GP, 21-22
Timo Meier RW	#9, 2015	6'1"	19-20 NHL	70	49	0.70	699	479	0.69	76 P in 77 GP, 21-22
Jaden Schwartz C	#14, 2010	5'10"	15-16 NHL	33	22	0.67	862	555	0.64	63 P in 75 GP, 14-15
Nikolaj Ehlers LW	#9, 2014	5'10"	18-19 NHL	62	37	0.60	757	591	0.78	71 P in 82 GP, 25-26
Gabriel Landeskog LW	#2, 2011	6'1"	15-16 NHL	75	53	0.71	799	607	0.76	75 P in 73 GP, 18-19

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
22-23	AHL	54	17	24	41	0.76	43
21-22	SHL	29	1	13	14	0.48	4
20-21	SHL	40	11	12	23	0.57	2
19-20	SHL	20	0	2	2	0.1	4

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.