Returning regular · 2025-26

Ethan Del Mastro

Chicago Blackhawks · LD · L shot · age 23 at the dated snapshot.

Team: CHI
Lane: LD
Age: 23

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.

Games19

Goals0

Assists1

Points1

Even strength1all even-strength points

Power play0

Short handed0

Empty net0

5v5 points / 600.239

Average TOI14:08

PP TOI0:00

PK TOI0:47

Organizational context

6 LD regulars in CHI

The all-team median is 4. CHI’s farm system ranks #2 in the maintained two-board consensus.

Thin lane

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?

Comparables at the same age

Who looked like this at 20 to 23

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.

Comparables found8

Went on to two or more NHL seasons7 of 8

Their later peak (adjusted pts/game)0.38median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 16 U16 AAA 0.60 → age 17 OHL 0.12 → age 19 OHL 0.71 → age 20 OHL 0.95 → age 21 AHL 0.54 → age 22 NHL 0.25 → age 23 NHL 0.05

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Dmitry OrlovD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22	0.04	age 24 NHL 0.35 → age 25 NHL 0.40 → age 26 NHL 0.38 → age 27 NHL 0.35 → age 28 NHL 0.39
Nick JensenD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.05	age 24 AHL 0.16 → age 25 AHL 0.12 → age 26 NHL 0.27 → age 27 NHL 0.18 → age 28 NHL 0.25
Luke KrysD · matched at ages 21, 22, 23	0.06	age 24 AHL 0.13 → age 25 AHL 0.18
Derrick PouliotD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.06	age 24 NHL 0.31 → age 25 NHL 0.19 → age 26 AHL 0.31 → age 27 AHL 0.26 → age 28 AHL 0.21
Spencer StastneyD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.06	age 24 NHL 0.20 → age 25 NHL 0.13 → age 26 NHL 0.30
Brayden McNabbD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.06	age 24 NHL 0.34 → age 25 NHL 0.17 → age 26 NHL 0.08 → age 27 NHL 0.20 → age 28 NHL 0.20
Mattias EkholmD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.06	age 24 NHL 0.23 → age 25 NHL 0.43 → age 26 NHL 0.28 → age 27 NHL 0.42 → age 28 NHL 0.55
Nate SchmidtD · matched at ages 20, 21, 22, 23	0.07	age 24 NHL 0.22 → age 25 NHL 0.28 → age 26 NHL 0.47 → age 27 NHL 0.49 → age 28 NHL 0.53

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.

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