Lian Bichsel

D · 22.4 years old · AHL 24-25

Drafted 2022 · round 1, 18 overall, DAL

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

22.3

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, 50 GP, 0.16 NHL-equivalent at 21.3, after 0.20 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
Nikita Zadorov D	#16, 2013	6'5"	16-17 NHL	56	10	0.18	805	190	0.24	22 P in 74 GP, 21-22
Joe Finley D	#27, 2005	6'8"	08-09 NCAA + AHL	28	10	0.15	21	1	0.05	1 P in 16 GP, 12-13
Logan Stanley D	#18, 2016	6'7"	19-20 AHL	44	10	0.10	279	62	0.22	21 P in 59 GP, 25-26
Ryan McDonagh D	#12, 2007	6'1"	10-11 NHL + AHL	78	17	0.16	1059	441	0.42	46 P in 82 GP, 18-19
Stuart Percy D	#25, 2011	6'1"	14-15 NHL + AHL	52	14	0.15	12	3	0.25	3 P in 9 GP, 14-15

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
24-25	AHL	28	3	6	9	0.32	36
23-24	SHL	29	2	2	4	0.14	28
23-24	AHL	16	1	6	7	0.44	34
22-23	SHL	42	1	5	6	0.14	47
21-22	SHL	29	1	2	3	0.1	16

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.