Returning regular · 2025-26
Mitchell Chaffee
New York Islanders · RW · R shot · age 28 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- NYI
- Lane
- RW
- Age
- 28
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
2 RW regulars in NYI
The all-team median is 3.5. NYI’s farm system ranks #12 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 · NYI
$0.85M cap hit
2026–27 through 2026–27 · UFA at expiry. Reported
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 25 to 28
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 18U AAA 0.74 → age 17 HPHL 16U 1.08 → age 18 USHL 0.24 → age 19 USHL 0.31 → age 20 NCAA 0.61 → age 21 NCAA 1.05 → age 22 NCAA 0.97 → age 23 AHL 0.61 → age 24 AHL 0.80 → age 25 AHL 0.70 → age 26 NHL 0.23 → age 27 NHL 0.27 → age 28 NHL 0.09
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Justin DowlingC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.04 | age 29 NHL 0.21 → age 30 NHL 0.18 → age 31 NHL 0.18 → age 32 AHL 0.37 → age 33 AHL 0.32 |
| Michael McCarronC · matched at ages 25, 27, 28 | 0.06 | age 29 NHL 0.31 → age 30 NHL 0.19 → age 31 NHL 0.20 |
| Dominic ToninatoC · matched at ages 25, 26, 28 | 0.07 | age 29 AHL 0.32 → age 30 NHL 0.33 → age 31 AHL 0.27 → age 32 AHL 0.38 |
| Stefan NoesenR · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.08 | age 29 AHL 0.55 → age 30 NHL 0.46 → age 31 NHL 0.46 → age 32 NHL 0.53 → age 33 NHL 0.18 |
| Nico SturmC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.08 | age 29 NHL 0.28 → age 30 NHL 0.22 |
| Zachary Aston-ReeseL · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.09 | age 29 AHL 0.22 → age 30 NHL 0.21 → age 31 NHL 0.18 |
| Radek FaksaC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.09 | age 29 NHL 0.25 → age 30 NHL 0.26 → age 31 NHL 0.21 → age 32 NHL 0.29 |
| Sheldon DriesC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.09 | age 29 AHL 0.43 → age 30 AHL 0.28 → age 31 AHL 0.36 |
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.