Dmitry Kulikov
Florida Panthers · LD · shoots L · 35 · UFA at expiry
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- Not on file (no sourced cap hit)
- Worth
- 2.9% of the cap
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight FLA do not play · next league date 2026-10-29
Production and deployment
How the points were built
Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.
Organizational context
LD regulars in FLA
The all-team median is . FLA’s farm system sits #30 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Dmitry Kulikov is in the middle of the pack for attention (47th percentile); attention this week is 2.32× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: .
Contract · FLA
Cap hit not published
2025–26 through 2027–28 · UFA at expiry. Certified
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Dmitry Kulikov ranks, and how sure we are
Each rank is the 10th to 90th percentile of his place when every skater's value is redrawn 1,000 times from his own band. One season rarely separates a player from the dozens around him.
- #461#267 to #572 of 678
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 267th to 572nd.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
4 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #496#174 to #633 of 678
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 174th to 633rd.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
6 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #502#276 to #630 of 744
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 276th to 630th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
1 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #495#183 to #625 of 678
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 183rd to 625th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
6 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #422#109 to #608 of 678
Likely a top-400 skater; anywhere from 109th to 608th.
In fewer than 1 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
8 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20).
Advanced scoring · 2025-26
Goals, assists and plus/minus, weighted by what they changed
Every goal counts the win probability it added, scaled so the average goal is 1.0: a late tying goal counts several, a goal at 6-1 or into an empty net late counts little. Plus/minus also credits the players on the ice when the goal's sequence began.
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Career arc ·
Dmitry Kulikov, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: .
What the numbers found
- Exceeded ceiling chance at the draft of going this far past the projection:
Projection at the draft
At the draft the model expected through his age-25 season (80% band ). He logged , above the 90th percentile. The model was applied to his draft class without being fitted or tested on it.
Every season
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Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-10-18
Club listings · licensed feeds
What the club lists him as
An injury listing and a projected slot are the club's statements relayed by a licensed feed, shown with their dates. CapOrCup infers nothing from them.
Projected slot · (FLA depth chart as of 2026-10-12; Sportradar NHL API v7, team depth charts)
Availability
Games missed
The NHL publishes no injury feed. This counts games his club played while he did not dress, for any reason: injury, illness, a healthy scratch, a suspension or a trade gap. No cause is claimed.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far:
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir DraveckyD · matched at ages | ||
| Ian ColeD · matched at ages | ||
| Kris LetangD · matched at ages | ||
| Brent BurnsD · matched at ages |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Fit components (description)
Dmitry Kulikov: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Dmitry Kulikov's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Rules that travel with him: blocked. Club-specific rules (50 contracts, 23-man roster, the two front offices) are on each team's Moves tab.
- Trade protection: Not on file. clause not confirmed. CBA Art. 11.8(a)
- Waiver exemption: blocked. signed at 18: past 3 seasons or 160 NHL games (now season 18, 1037 games). CBA Art. 13.4; CBA Art. 13.4 (11-game rule); CBA Art. 13.4 (note)
as of 2026-04-16