GRIT & GF

Prospect board, #2088 overall

Mathias Bourque

Centre, 19.6 years old, Val-d'Or Foreurs (QMJHL), 6′0″ 173 lb, shoots left

Odds he's an NHL regular

1%

Long shot

Scouting report

Mathias Bourque is a 19-year-old centre with Val-d'Or Foreurs in the QMJHL, undrafted. He has 0 goals and 1 assist in 12 games, 0.08 a game, which works out to about 1 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate.

That is down from 0.32 a game last season, and the projection drops with it. His team scores 4.2 a game, one of the better offences around. And the five best scorers around him average 1.42 points a game, well above the norm. Some of those points come from the company he keeps, and the model discounts them. Listed at 6-foot-0 and 173 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 1% 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.

  1. Elite<1%
  2. First-liner<1%
  3. Middle-sixer<1%
  4. Fourth-liner1%
  5. Tweener1%
  6. AHLer13%

How he got there

  1. 1His line

    0.08 P/GP

    0 G, 1 A in 12 games, QMJHL

  2. 2League exchange rate

    1 pts

    NHL-equivalent points over 82

  3. 3Team around him

    −16%

    Discount for a strong offence or stacked roster

  4. 4Age

    19.6

    On 15 September. The same line is worth more at 17 than at 20

  5. 5Draft slot

    None

    Passed over, read as a pick after the last one

  6. 6If he makes it

    44 pts

    Peak points per 82 for players like him who became regulars

Season lines

SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPP/GP
This seasonVal-d'Or ForeursQMJHL120110.08
Last seasonVal-d'Or ForeursQMJHL5699180.32