Returning regular · 2025-26

Nikita Klepov

Anaheim Ducks · RW · — shot · age 18 at the dated snapshot.

Team: ANA
Lane: RW
Age: 18

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

3 RW regulars in ANA

The all-team median is 3.5. ANA’s farm system ranks #13 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 15 to 17

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 seasons3 of 8

Their later peak (adjusted pts/game)0.60median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 15 AYHL 15U 3.27 → age 16 USHL 0.53 → age 17 OHL 1.45

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Andrew CristallL · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.07	age 18 WHL 0.49 → age 19 WHL 0.50 → age 20 WHL 0.60 → age 21 AHL 0.38
Mathew BarzalC · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.08	age 18 WHL 0.42 → age 19 WHL 0.54 → age 20 NHL 1.04 → age 21 NHL 0.76 → age 22 NHL 0.88
Charlie ForslundLW · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.08	age 18 J20 Nationell 0.13 → age 19 U20 Nationell 0.12
Oliver BjorkstrandR · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.10	age 18 WHL 0.44 → age 19 WHL 0.56 → age 20 NHL 0.67 → age 21 NHL 0.50 → age 22 NHL 0.49
Alex CiernikL · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.10	age 18 J20 Nationell 0.28 → age 19 HockeyAllsvenskan 0.11 → age 20 HockeyAllsvenskan 0.10 → age 21 Liiga 0.08
Jordan DumaisR · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.11	age 18 QMJHL 0.58 → age 19 QMJHL 0.60 → age 20 AHL 0.24 → age 21 AHL 0.18
Matthew WoodR · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.11	age 18 NCAA 0.37 → age 19 NCAA 0.31 → age 20 NCAA 0.38 → age 21 NHL 0.42
Alex TuchR · matched at ages 15, 16, 17	0.11	age 18 NCAA 0.29 → age 19 NCAA 0.33 → age 20 AHL 0.29 → age 21 NHL 0.47 → age 22 NHL 0.70

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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Nikita Klepov

Official split unavailable

3 RW regulars in ANA

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Questions a GM still has to answer

ANA do not play today

Nikita Klepov is in the middle of the pack for attention (52th percentile); attention this week is 2.54× his usual

Contract

No career arc on file

Who looked like this at 15 to 17

Reading it

Every goal, with the league's video

What the club lists him as

Speed, shot and ice