Tyler Cooper

Scouting report

Tyler Cooper is a 16-year-old centre with Erie Otters in the OHL. He has 0 goals and 1 assist in 9 games, 0.11 a game, which works out to about 1 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate.

That is down from 0.37 a game last season, and the projection drops with it. His team scores 2.6 a game, below the league, and much less when he is not the one scoring. And the five best scorers around him average only 0.77 points a game. He's producing without much support, and the model bumps him up for it. At 16.8 he is among the youngest regulars in the league, and age matters more than any single stat in these projections. Listed at 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds. His most likely outcome is a fourth-liner, with a fair sample behind it. Players drafted from 2010 to 2017 with numbers like his give him a 62% chance of becoming an NHL regular, 25% of a first-line career and 9% of turning into one of the league's best. If he makes it, figure about 51 points a season at his best. A fourth-line job tends to come from penalty killing and faceoffs more than from scoring.

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