Returning regular · 2025-26
Dominik Badinka
Carolina Hurricanes · LD · — shot · age 20 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- CAR
- Lane
- LD
- Age
- 20
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
5 LD regulars in CAR
The all-team median is 4. CAR’s farm system ranks #24 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 · FINAL
FLA at CAR
Projected slot from the licensed depth chart; props from the model's learned layer on shots, finishing and the opposing starter; ratings are last season's until this one has enough games. Information, not a recommendation.
Latest move: The Carolina Hurricanes assigned D Dominik Badinka to the minors. (2026-09-25).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Dominik Badinka is in the middle of the pack for attention (33th percentile)
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: 3 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 9 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · CAR
Cap hit not published
2024–25 through 2026–27. Certified
Career arc · era-adjusted points per 82 games
null, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (80% band), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
At the draft the model expected 7 NHL hours through his age-25 season (80% band 0 to 82). He logged 0 hours, between the 10th percentile and the median. The model was applied to his draft class without being fitted or tested on it.
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-09-29
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.
This player so far: age 14 Czechia U17 0.25 → age 16 Czechia U17 1.90 → age 17 U20 SM-sarja 0.60 → age 18 SHL 0.12 → age 19 SHL 0.10 → age 20 AHL 0.21
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Oscar PlandowskiD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.00 | age 21 USports 0.07 → age 22 NCAA 0.03 |
| Simon LundmarkD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 AHL 0.11 → age 22 AHL 0.12 → age 23 AHL 0.12 → age 24 AHL 0.10 → age 25 AHL 0.09 |
| Luca MunzenbergerD · matched at ages 17, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.04 → age 22 NCAA 0.15 |
| Ben DanfordD · matched at ages 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.26 → age 22 NCAA 0.14 → age 23 NCAA 0.16 → age 24 NCAA 0.25 → age 25 France 0.16 |
| Maksymilian SzuberD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 AHL 0.18 → age 22 AHL 0.22 → age 23 AHL 0.19 |
| William LagessonD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.09 → age 22 SHL 0.15 → age 23 AHL 0.18 → age 24 AHL 0.18 → age 25 NHL 0.10 |
| Anton OlssonD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 SHL 0.03 → age 22 Liiga 0.11 → age 23 Liiga 0.14 |
| Victor ManciniD · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.10 → age 22 NHL 0.33 → age 23 NHL 0.13 |
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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Roster moves · as of 2026-09-28
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-09-25 · sent to the minors · The Carolina Hurricanes assigned D Dominik Badinka to the minors.
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.
No NHL EDGE data for this player in 2025-26 (usually fewer NHL games, or a goalie).