GRIT & GF

Prospect board, #1029 overall

Tyler Duke

Defence, 22.2 years old, Univ. of Michigan (NCAA), 5′9″ 190 lb, shoots left

Odds he's an NHL regular

14%

Long shot

Scouting report

Tyler Duke is a 22-year-old defenceman with Univ. of Michigan in the NCAA, on the Pittsburgh Penguins prospect list. He has 2 goals and 16 assists in 40 games, 0.45 a game, which works out to about 7 NHL points over 82 at his league's exchange rate. Most of it is setting up other people. There are 4 other NHL draft picks on his roster. Some of those points come from the company he keeps, and the model discounts them. Listed at 5-foot-9 and 190 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 14% 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.

  1. Elite<1%
  2. Top-pair1%
  3. Second-pair2%
  4. Third-pair14%
  5. Tweener17%
  6. AHLer29%

How he got there

  1. 1His line

    0.45 P/GP

    2 G, 16 A in 40 games, NCAA

  2. 2League exchange rate

    7 pts

    NHL-equivalent points over 82

  3. 3Team around him

    −8%

    Discount for a strong offence or stacked roster

  4. 4Age

    22.2

    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

    21 pts

    Peak points per 82 for players like him who became regulars

Season lines

SeasonTeamLeagueGPGAPP/GP
Last seasonUniv. of MichiganNCAA40216180.45