Owen Protz

Scouting report

Owen Protz is a 20-year-old defenceman with Laval Rocket in the AHL, a Montreal Canadiens fourth-round pick, 102 overall in 2024. He has 0 goals and 0 assists in 5 games, 0.00 a game, which works out to about 0 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate. His team scores 4.2 a game, one of the better offences around. And the five best scorers around him average 1.47 points a game, well above the norm. Linemates like that pad a stat line, so the model takes some of his points back.

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-1 and 213 pounds. His most likely outcome is a long shot, with a fair sample behind it. Players drafted from 2010 to 2017 with numbers like his give him an 8% 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.