Returning regular · 2025-26
Hunter St. Martin
Florida Panthers · LW · — shot · age 21 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- FLA
- Lane
- LW
- Age
- 21
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
6 LW regulars in FLA
The all-team median is 4. FLA’s farm system ranks #30 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 · OFF
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.
Nothing listed against Hunter St. Martin.
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Hunter St. Martin is in the middle of the pack for attention (30th 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: 5 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 1 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract
No contract for this player has been sourced yet. CapOrCup does not estimate it.
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 0 NHL hours through his age-25 season (80% band 0 to 26). He logged 0 hours, between the median and the 90th percentile. 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 13 CSSHL U15 0.67 → age 14 CSSHL U15 0.68 → age 16 WHL 0.00 → age 17 WHL 0.36 → age 18 WHL 0.77 → age 19 WHL 0.91 → age 20 AHL 0.28
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Josh AndersonR · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.01 | age 21 NHL 0.33 → age 22 NHL 0.37 → age 23 NHL 0.48 → age 24 NHL 0.57 → age 25 NHL 0.15 |
| Frank VatranoR · matched at ages 17, 18, 19 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.30 → age 22 NHL 0.28 → age 23 NHL 0.41 → age 24 NHL 0.08 → age 25 NHL 0.48 |
| Luke TuchL · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.02 | age 21 NCAA 0.19 → age 22 NCAA 0.29 → age 23 AHL 0.14 → age 24 AHL 0.09 |
| McKade WebsterL · matched at ages 17, 19, 20 | 0.03 | age 21 NCAA 0.14 → age 22 NCAA 0.18 → age 23 NCAA 0.28 |
| J.T. MillerC · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.03 | age 21 NHL 0.20 → age 22 NHL 0.40 → age 23 NHL 0.52 → age 24 NHL 0.68 → age 25 NHL 0.64 |
| Sam LaffertyC · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.03 | age 21 NCAA 0.12 → age 22 NCAA 0.43 → age 23 NCAA 0.27 → age 24 AHL 0.32 → age 25 NHL 0.26 |
| Joel Ratkovic BerndtssonRW · matched at ages 18, 19, 20 | 0.04 | age 21 HockeyEttan 0.21 → age 22 HockeyEttan 0.20 |
| Dominic ToninatoC · matched at ages 17, 18, 19, 20 | 0.04 | age 21 NCAA 0.29 → age 22 NCAA 0.20 → age 23 NCAA 0.26 → age 24 NHL 0.05 → age 25 AHL 0.23 |
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.
No NHL EDGE data for this player in 2025-26 (usually fewer NHL games, or a goalie).