Ryker Evans

D · 24.8 years old · AHL 23-24

Drafted 2021 · round 2, 35 overall, SEA

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

24.8

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, 67 GP, 0.25 NHL-equivalent at 23.8, after 0.34 the year before. Also matched on draft slot, height, playing against adults. Then their NHL careers.

Player	Drafted	Ht	At his age	GP	P	NHLe	NHL GP	NHL P	P/GP	Best NHL season
Brendan Smith D	#27, 2007	6'1"	12-13 NHL + AHL	66	28	0.26	741	146	0.20	19 P in 71 GP, 13-14
Alexander Romanov D	#38, 2018	5'11"	23-24 NHL	81	22	0.27	370	84	0.23	22 P in 76 GP, 22-23
Jonas Junland D	#64, 2006	6'2"	11-12 KHL	46	15	0.25	4	2	0.50	2 P in 3 GP, 09-10
Jordan Schmaltz D	#25, 2012	6'2"	17-18 NHL + AHL	44	24	0.25	42	5	0.12	2 P in 9 GP, 16-17
Jake McCabe D	#44, 2012	6'0"	17-18 NHL	53	12	0.23	725	200	0.28	28 P in 73 GP, 23-24

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
23-24	AHL	25	2	13	15	0.6	28
22-23	AHL	71	6	38	44	0.62	74
21-22	WHL	63	14	47	61	0.97	96

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.