Returning regular · 2025-26

Carter Yakemchuk

Ottawa Senators · LD · — shot · age 20 at the dated snapshot.

Team: OTT
Lane: LD
Age: 20

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.

Games4

Goals1

Assists1

Points2

Even strength1all even-strength points

Power play1

Short handed0

Empty net0

5v5 points / 601.222

Average TOI14:32

PP TOI1:43

PK TOI0:01

Organizational context

3 LD regulars in OTT

The all-team median is 4. OTT’s farm system ranks #25 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 17 to 20

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 seasons6 of 8

Their later peak (adjusted pts/game)0.59median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 13 AMBHL 0.33 → age 14 AMBHL 0.88 → age 16 WHL 0.23 → age 17 WHL 0.70 → age 18 WHL 1.08 → age 19 WHL 0.88 → age 20 AHL 0.74

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Dmitry KulikovD · matched at ages 18, 19, 20	0.02	age 21 NHL 0.48 → age 22 NHL 0.29 → age 23 NHL 0.23 → age 24 NHL 0.30 → age 25 NHL 0.23
Mike BenningD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.03	age 21 NCAA 0.33 → age 22 AHL 0.16 → age 23 AHL 0.27 → age 24 NHL 0.33
Brandon MontourD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.03	age 21 AHL 0.38 → age 22 NHL 0.22 → age 23 NHL 0.40 → age 24 NHL 0.40 → age 25 NHL 0.33
Noah HanifinD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.04	age 21 NHL 0.41 → age 22 NHL 0.41 → age 23 NHL 0.31 → age 24 NHL 0.32 → age 25 NHL 0.59
Ryan UfkoD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.04	age 21 AHL 0.19 → age 22 NHL 0.61
Cam YorkD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.05	age 21 NHL 0.33 → age 22 NHL 0.37 → age 23 NHL 0.37 → age 24 NHL 0.26 → age 25 NHL 0.35
Damon SeversonD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.05	age 21 NHL 0.29 → age 22 NHL 0.39 → age 23 NHL 0.32 → age 24 NHL 0.48 → age 25 NHL 0.45
Seth JonesD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20	0.05	age 21 NHL 0.28 → age 22 NHL 0.56 → age 23 NHL 0.73 → age 24 NHL 0.61 → age 25 NHL 0.54

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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