Saturday, May 22, 2010

Rookies and Sophomores of 2009-10

Here is a look at the offensive progression of Leafs' rookies (Bozak, Stalberg, Gunnarsson, Caputi*, and Hanson) and sophomores (Grabovski, Kulemin, Mitchell, and Schenn) over the past three seasons.
EqPt/GP stands for Equivalent Point-per-Game-Played average, which is a projection of how the player would produced at the NHL level according to Gabriel Desjardins' terrific league translations. Pts/82 is the number of points that the player was projected to score over 82 NHL games.
The following players, since making the NHL, have mostly produced at close to the same rate as they'd been projected to at the minor/college/junior level or in the European leagues. Plus, if you combine Bozak and Gunnarsson's wildly divergent 2009-10 NHL/AHL numbers, you'll get a number closer to their EqPt/GP of the previous season.
Ages are as of January 1, 2010.

Rookies:

TYLER BOZAK, Centre
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
21
NCAA
41
0.34
-
28
2008-09
22
NCAA
19
0.50
-
41
2009-10
23
AHL
32
0.29
-
24
2009-10
23
NHL
37
-
0.73
60


VIKTOR STALBERG, Wing
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
21
NCAA
39
0.24
-
20
2008-09
22
NCAA
39
0.41
-
34
2009-10
23
AHL
39
0.40
-
33
2009-10
23
NHL
40
-
0.35
29


CARL GUNNARSSON, Defence
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
21
SEL
53
0.13
-
11
2008-09
22
SEL
53
0.24
-
20
2009-10
23
AHL
12
0.07
-
6
2009-10
23
NHL
43
-
0.35
29


LUCA CAPUTI, Wing
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
19
AHL
66
0.49
-
40
2008-09
20
AHL
66
0.33
-
22
2008-09
20
NHL
5
-
0.20
16
2009-10
21
AHL
54
0.41
-
34
2009-10
21
NHL
23
-
0.35
29


CHRISTIAN HANSON, Centre/Wing
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
21
NCAA
47
0.19
-
16
2008-09
22
NCAA
37
0.34
-
28
2008-09
22
NHL
5
-
0.40
33
2009-10
23
AHL
38
0.38
-
31
2009-10
23
NHL
31
-
0.23
19


Sophomores:

MIKHAIL GRABOVSKI, Centre
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
23
AHL
12
0.70
-
57
2007-08
23
NHL
24
-
0.38
31
2008-09
24
NHL
78
-
0.62
51
2009-10
25
NHL
59
-
0.59
48


NIKOLAI KULEMIN, Wing
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
21
RUS
57
0.48
-
39
2008-09
22
AHL
5
0.00
-
0
2008-09
22
NHL
73
-
0.42
34
2009-10
23
NHL
78
-
0.46
38


JOHN MITCHELL, Centre
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
22
AHL
79
0.30
-
25
2008-09
23
NHL
76
-
0.38
31
2009-10
24
NHL
60
-
0.38
31


LUKE SCHENN
, Defence
Season
Age
League
GP
EqPt/GP
Pt/GP
Pts/82
2007-08
18
WHL
57
0.14
-
11
2008-09
19
NHL
70
-
0.20
16
2009-10
20
NHL
79
-
0.22
17

* - I just realized that Caputi will still be considered a rookie next season, as long as he plays 25 games or more. To qualify as a rookie according to NHL rules, the player must play in 25+ games throughout the season, and not have played at least 25+ games the year before nor in 6+ games in each of any two preceding seasons.

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