Returning regular · 2025-26
Declan Chisholm
New Jersey Devils · LD · L shot · age 26 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- NJD
- Lane
- LD
- Age
- 26
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
5 LD regulars in NJD
The all-team median is 4. NJD’s farm system ranks #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?
Contract · NJD
$1.60M 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.
- Defencemen are compared only with defencemen. Points understate defensive value, so the on-ice impact measures on each player page carry the rest: the expected goals created and allowed while he plays, and the goals whose sequence began on his shift. The impact model in a later phase addresses that.
- 8 real points at this cap hit would pass the cost test (he had 7).
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 23 to 26
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: age 16 GTHL U16 0.52 → age 17 OHL 0.12 → age 18 OHL 0.43 → age 19 OHL 0.72 → age 20 OHL 1.17 → age 21 AHL 0.46 → age 22 AHL 0.57 → age 23 AHL 0.73 → age 24 NHL 0.28 → age 25 NHL 0.18 → age 26 NHL 0.27
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe MyersD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.02 | age 27 AHL 0.17 → age 28 NHL 0.14 → age 29 NHL 0.05 |
| Adam PelechD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.05 | age 27 NHL 0.36 → age 28 NHL 0.34 → age 29 NHL 0.28 → age 30 NHL 0.35 → age 31 NHL 0.20 |
| Joe HickettsD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.05 | age 27 AHL 0.30 → age 28 AHL 0.20 → age 29 AHL 0.14 |
| Erik CernakD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.06 | age 27 NHL 0.28 → age 28 NHL 0.18 |
| Joel EdmundsonD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.06 | age 27 NHL 0.24 → age 28 NHL 0.25 → age 29 NHL 0.21 → age 30 NHL 0.14 → age 31 NHL 0.27 |
| Adam LarssonD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.06 | age 27 NHL 0.12 → age 28 NHL 0.18 → age 29 NHL 0.30 → age 30 NHL 0.40 → age 31 NHL 0.22 |
| Jack AhcanD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.06 | age 27 AHL 0.27 → age 28 NHL 0.18 |
| Jake McCabeD · matched at ages 23, 24, 25, 26 | 0.06 | age 27 NHL 0.23 → age 28 NHL 0.29 → age 29 NHL 0.36 → age 30 NHL 0.38 → age 31 NHL 0.35 |
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.
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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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.
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.