Returning regular · 2025-26
Georgii Merkulov
Colorado Avalanche · C · — shot · age 25 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- COL
- Lane
- C
- Age
- 25
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
10 C regulars in COL
The all-team median is 7. COL’s farm system ranks #32 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?
Tonight
COL do not play today
League schedule for 2026-09-29; next league date 2026-09-30.
Nothing listed against him.
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Georgii Merkulov is quiet (29th percentile); attention this week is 4× 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: 2 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 8 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · COL
Cap hit not published
2026–27 through 2026–27. Certified
Career arc
No career arc on file
This player has no NHL season on file from 2000-01 on and no draft projection, so there is no arc to draw.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 22 to 25
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 15 Russia U16 1.06 → age 16 Russia U17 1.04 → age 17 MHL 0.38 → age 18 MHL 0.72 → age 19 USHL 0.92 → age 20 USHL 1.05 → age 21 NCAA 0.94 → age 22 AHL 0.82 → age 23 AHL 0.97 → age 24 AHL 0.92 → age 25 AHL 0.87
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Mattias JanmarkC · matched at ages 22, 23, 25 | 0.03 | age 26 NHL 0.31 → age 27 NHL 0.34 → age 28 NHL 0.46 → age 29 NHL 0.37 → age 30 NHL 0.38 |
| J.T. CompherL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.04 | age 26 NHL 0.47 → age 27 NHL 0.63 → age 28 NHL 0.62 → age 29 NHL 0.42 → age 30 NHL 0.34 |
| Jean-Gabriel PageauC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.04 | age 26 NHL 0.31 → age 27 NHL 0.67 → age 28 NHL 0.52 → age 29 NHL 0.51 → age 30 NHL 0.57 |
| Connor BrownR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.04 | age 26 NHL 0.61 → age 27 NHL 0.63 → age 28 NHL 0.61 → age 30 NHL 0.17 → age 31 NHL 0.37 |
| Cody GlassC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.05 | age 26 NHL 0.29 → age 27 NHL 0.37 |
| Radek FaksaC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.06 | age 26 NHL 0.30 → age 27 NHL 0.26 → age 28 NHL 0.25 → age 29 NHL 0.25 → age 30 NHL 0.26 |
| Jonathan MarchessaultC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.06 | age 26 NHL 0.68 → age 27 NHL 0.97 → age 28 NHL 0.72 → age 29 NHL 0.71 → age 30 NHL 0.80 |
| Miles WoodL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.06 | age 27 NHL 0.35 → age 28 NHL 0.35 → age 29 NHL 0.22 → age 30 NHL 0.26 |
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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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.