Prospect board, #1387 overall
Luca Romano
Centre, 19.2 years old, Kitchener Rangers (OHL), 5′11″ 170 lb, shoots right
Odds he's an NHL regular
6%
Scouting report
Luca Romano is a 19-year-old centre with Kitchener Rangers in the OHL, undrafted. He has 3 goals and 7 assists in 11 games, 0.91 a game, which works out to about 11 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate. Most of it is setting up other people. That is up from 0.60 a game last season. His team scores 2.9 a game, below the league, and much less when he is not the one scoring. He's producing without much support, and the model bumps him up for it. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 170 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 6% chance of becoming an NHL regular. 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%
- First-liner<1%
- Middle-sixer1%
- Fourth-liner6%
- Tweener9%
- AHLer30%
How he got there
1His line
0.91 P/GP
3 G, 7 A in 11 games, OHL
2League exchange rate
11 pts
NHL-equivalent points over 82
3Team around him
+22%
Credit for a weak offence or thin help
4Age
19.2
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
32 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 | Kitchener Rangers | OHL | 11 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 0.91 |
| Last season | Kitchener Rangers | OHL | 55 | 14 | 19 | 33 | 0.60 |