Ilya Protas

Washington Capitals · LW · — shot · age 20 at the dated snapshot.

Team: WSH
Lane: LW
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

Assists3

Points4

Even strength3all even-strength points

Power play1

Short handed0

Empty net1

5v5 points / 602.311

Average TOI15:54

PP TOI2:26

PK TOI0:00

Organizational context

3 LW regulars in WSH

The all-team median is 4. WSH’s farm system ranks #10 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 16 to 19

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)0.78median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 16 Belarus Vysshaya 1.17 → age 17 USHL 0.84 → age 18 OHL 2.03 → age 19 AHL 0.96

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Logan MorrisonC · matched at ages 16, 17, 19	0.03	age 20 OHL 0.46 → age 21 AHL 0.29 → age 22 AHL 0.27 → age 23 AHL 0.41
David PastrnakR · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.06	age 20 NHL 0.93 → age 21 NHL 0.98 → age 22 NHL 1.23 → age 23 NHL 1.36 → age 24 NHL 1.00
Wyatt JohnstonC · matched at ages 16, 18, 19	0.07	age 20 NHL 0.79 → age 21 NHL 0.87 → age 22 NHL 1.05
Joshua RoyRW · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.07	age 20 NHL 0.39 → age 21 NHL 0.17 → age 22 AHL 0.36
Anthony DuclairL · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.07	age 20 NHL 0.54 → age 21 NHL 0.26 → age 22 NHL 0.46 → age 23 NHL 0.36 → age 24 NHL 0.61
Nick RobertsonL · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.07	age 20 NHL 0.10 → age 21 NHL 0.33 → age 22 NHL 0.48 → age 23 NHL 0.32 → age 24 NHL 0.41
Matt CoronatoR · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.07	age 20 NCAA 0.41 → age 21 NHL 0.27 → age 22 NHL 0.61 → age 23 NHL 0.56
Sam ReinhartC · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19	0.08	age 20 NHL 0.53 → age 21 NHL 0.59 → age 22 NHL 0.61 → age 23 NHL 0.79 → age 24 NHL 0.72

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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