Returning regular · 2025-26
Braeden Cootes
Vancouver Canucks · C · — shot · age 19 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- VAN
- Lane
- C
- Age
- 19
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 C regulars in VAN
The all-team median is 7. VAN’s farm system ranks #14 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 · 10:00 p.m. ET
VAN at EDM
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 Vancouver Canucks assigned F Braeden Cootes to the minors. (2026-09-25).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Braeden Cootes is among the most talked-about (90th percentile); attention this week is 3.67× 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: 19 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 68 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.
From the video · model judgement
What the condensed games showed
Read from the league's free condensed games (1 game so far): entries, exits, battles and turnovers the model could see and attribute to his jersey number. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations, not season counts.
Career arc · era-adjusted points per 82 games
Braeden Cootes, 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.
Position band: quantile regression (10th/50th/90th) of qualifying seasons on an age spline, weighted for players who drop out.
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 74 NHL hours through his age-25 season (80% band 7 to 119). He logged 1 hours, below the 10th percentile. The model was applied to his draft class without being fitted or tested on it.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 18 | 3 | 0.0 | −8.7 to 95.0 |
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-09-29
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.
This player so far: age 15 CSSHL U15 2.23 → age 16 AEHL U18 1.41 → age 17 WHL 0.55 → age 18 WHL 1.05 → age 19 WHL 1.35
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Riley KidneyC · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.02 | age 20 QMJHL 0.39 → age 21 AHL 0.14 → age 22 AHL 0.13 → age 23 ECHL 0.25 |
| Matias MaccelliL · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.02 | age 20 Liiga 0.38 → age 21 NHL 0.26 → age 22 NHL 0.77 → age 23 NHL 0.69 → age 24 NHL 0.33 |
| Gracyn SawchynC · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.02 | age 20 WHL 0.40 → age 21 AHL 0.30 |
| Alexander SuzdalevL · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.03 | age 20 WHL 0.23 → age 21 ECHL 0.27 → age 22 AHL 0.27 |
| Mathieu CatafordC · matched at ages 17, 18, 19 | 0.03 | age 20 QMJHL 0.32 → age 21 AHL 0.10 |
| Brett HowdenC · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.03 | age 20 WHL 0.43 → age 21 NHL 0.35 → age 22 NHL 0.27 → age 23 NHL 0.17 → age 24 NHL 0.43 |
| Ozzy WiesblattC · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.03 | age 20 WHL 0.27 → age 21 AHL 0.15 → age 22 AHL 0.15 → age 23 AHL 0.28 → age 24 NHL 0.13 |
| Jackson BlakeR · matched at ages 16, 17, 18, 19 | 0.03 | age 20 NCAA 0.57 → age 21 NHL 0.42 → age 22 NHL 0.65 |
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 Vancouver Canucks assigned F Braeden Cootes 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.