Calgary Flames Prospect Update: a mid-season NHLe progress report

It’s a quiet week for the hockey world, with the majority of the Calgary Flames’ prospects off due to the holidays or COVID-19 protocol stoppages. Either way, we figured it’s a good time to look at each player’s offensive contributions in the context of their NHLe (NHL equivalent) progression.

Let’s dive in!

For the unfamiliar, NHLe is a method of roughly approximating what a player’s production in one league would translate to at the NHL level. It’s an approximation based on large data samples of players who played in those leagues and made the jump (or didn’t) to NHL success. Take them with a grain of salt, as they’re not meant to be predictions, but mere conversions meant to put a player’s…