An attempt at projecting NHL performance for Flyers’ prospects

There is no perfect way to predict a prospect’s success in the NHL. One of the better ways to predict a prospect’s success, however, is by finding out a player’s NHL equivalency, or NHLe. This is a measure that attempts to equate how many points a certain player would produce in the NHL by using their point totals of whatever league they are currently playing in.

Thanks to the hard work of Gabriel Desjardins and Rob Vollman, we are able to use this practice to find out the NHLe for the majority of players who aren’t currently playing in the NHL. Desjardins, the creator of the stat, sums it up like this:

“One way to evaluate the difficulty of one league relative to another is examine the…