Returning regular · 2025-26
Dillon Boucher
Chicago Blackhawks · LW · — shot · age 29 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- CHI
- Lane
- LW
- Age
- 29
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 LW regulars in CHI
The all-team median is 4. CHI’s farm system ranks #2 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?
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CHI at VGK
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 Chicago Blackhawks assigned F Dillon Boucher to the minors. (2026-09-27).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Dillon Boucher is in the middle of the pack for attention (31th 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 · 6 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · CHI
Cap hit not published
2026–27 through 2026–27. Certified
Career arc
No career arc on file
This player has no NHL season on file from 2000-01 on and no draft projection, so there is no arc to draw.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 25 to 28
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 17 QMJHL 0.25 → age 18 QMJHL 0.23 → age 19 QMJHL 0.26 → age 20 MJAHL 1.12 → age 21 USports 0.37 → age 22 USports 0.41 → age 24 USports 0.45 → age 25 ECHL 0.00 → age 26 ECHL 0.31 → age 27 ECHL 0.19 → age 28 AHL 0.15
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Brandsegg-NygårdRW · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.05 | age 29 Liiga 0.14 → age 30 Liiga 0.05 |
| Kurtis MacDermidL · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.07 | age 29 NHL 0.14 → age 30 NHL 0.07 → age 31 NHL 0.00 → age 32 NHL 0.05 |
| Scott SabourinR · matched at ages 25, 26, 27 | 0.07 | age 29 AHL 0.19 → age 30 AHL 0.29 → age 31 AHL 0.21 → age 32 AHL 0.17 → age 33 NHL 0.19 |
| Dominik ShineR · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.08 | age 29 AHL 0.17 → age 30 AHL 0.23 → age 31 AHL 0.34 → age 32 NHL 0.17 |
| Mason GeertsenL · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.08 | age 29 AHL 0.07 → age 30 AHL 0.05 |
| Mackenzie MacEachernL · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.10 | age 29 AHL 0.37 → age 30 AHL 0.25 → age 31 AHL 0.36 → age 32 AHL 0.17 |
| Roger McQueenC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.12 | age 29 ECHL 0.19 → age 30 ECHL 0.14 |
| Jake LucchiniC · matched at ages 25, 26, 27, 28 | 0.12 | age 29 AHL 0.29 → age 30 AHL 0.36 |
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.
2026-09-27 · sent to the minors · The Chicago Blackhawks assigned F Dillon Boucher 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).