Declan Chisholm
New Jersey Devils · LD · shoots L · 26
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- 1.5% of the cap · through 2026–27 · the contract
- Worth
- 3.1% of the cap · Cup: paid under the market
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight · Final · ANA 1–4 NJD as of 10:14 p.m. ET
ANA at NJD
Projected slot from the licensed depth chart; props from the model's learned layer on shots, finishing and the opposing starter; ratings are last season's until this one has enough games. Information, not a recommendation.
Nothing listed against Declan Chisholm.
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 NJD
The all-team median is . NJD’s farm system sits #19 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
Declan Chisholm is in the middle of the pack for attention (51st percentile); attention this week is 2.61× 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 · NJD
cap hit
2025–26 through 2026–27. Certified
Cup signal › Costs more per point than the position median, but earns it with five-on-five creation or penalty-kill work.
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Declan Chisholm 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.
- #384#165 to #548 of 678
Likely a top-400 skater; anywhere from 165th to 548th.
In 0 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). - #629#325 to #661 of 678
Likely a top-600 skater; anywhere from 325th to 661st.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
3 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #235#112 to #490 of 744
Likely a top-300 skater; anywhere from 112th to 490th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
7 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #439#189 to #612 of 678
Likely a top-500 skater; anywhere from 189th to 612th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
7 of 20 dots sit above zero (the average regular). Each dot is one equally likely outcome (1 in 20). - #643#342 to #664 of 678
Likely a top-600 skater; anywhere from 342nd to 664th.
In 0 of 100 seasons like this one, he finishes in the top ten.
2 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 ·
Declan Chisholm, 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
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
At the draft the model expected through his age-25 season (80% band ). He logged , between the median and the 90th percentile.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ||||
| 2023-24 | ||||
| 2024-25 | ||||
| 2025-26 | ||||
| 2026-27 |
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 · (NJD 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe MyersD · matched at ages | ||
| Adam PelechD · matched at ages | ||
| Joe HickettsD · matched at ages | ||
| Erik CernakD · matched at ages | ||
| Joel EdmundsonD · matched at ages | ||
| Adam LarssonD · matched at ages | ||
| Jack AhcanD · matched at ages | ||
| Jake McCabeD · 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)
Declan Chisholm: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Declan Chisholm'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 20: past 3 seasons or 160 NHL games (now season 7, 125 games). CBA Art. 13.4
as of 2026-04-16