Ben Danford

Defence, 20.6 years old, Toronto Marlies (AHL), 6′2″ 200 lb, shoots right

Odds he's an NHL regular

Long shot

Scouting report

Ben Danford is a 20-year-old defenceman with Toronto Marlies in the AHL. He has 0 goals and 2 assists in 5 games, 0.40 a game, which works out to about 13 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate. His team scores 3.7 a game, one of the better offences around. And the five best scorers around him average 1.39 points a game, well above the norm. Some of those points come from the company he keeps, and the model discounts them.

At 20.6 he is among the youngest regulars in the league, and age matters more than any single stat in these projections. Listed at 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds. The model's median outcome for him is a long shot, with a fair sample behind it. Players drafted from 2010 to 2017 with numbers like his give him a 7% chance of becoming an NHL regular. This is a points model, so it can't see what he does without the puck. Few players with numbers like these made it, though some did.

Written by the model from his numbers, on a fair sample. prospects-0.3.

His odds

His chance of reaching at least each tier, from 2010 to 2017 draft picks with a line, age like his. The highest tier where he's at even odds or better is his likeliest outcome.

Elite<1%
Top-pair<1%
Second-pair<1%
Third-pair7%
Tweener9%
AHLer16%

How he got there

1His line
0.40 P/GP
0 G, 2 A in 5 games, AHL
2League exchange rate
13 pts
NHL-equivalent points over 82
3Team around him
−21%
Discount for a strong offence or stacked roster
4Age
20.6
On 15 September. The same line is worth more at 17 than at 20
5Draft slot
None
Passed over, read as a pick after the last one
6If he makes it
21 pts
Peak points per 82 for players like him who became regulars

Season lines

Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	P	P/GP
This season	Toronto Marlies	AHL	5	0	2	2	0.40
Last season	Brantford Bulldogs	OHL	45	3	17	20	0.44