Returning regular · 2025-26

T.J. Hughes

Colorado Avalanche · RW · — shot · age 24 at the dated snapshot.

Team: COL
Lane: RW
Age: 24

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

1 RW regulars in COL

The all-team median is 3.5. COL’s farm system ranks #32 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 21 to 24

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)0.72median across the comparables; this player's own line is below

This player so far: age 16 GOJHL 0.93 → age 18 AJHL 0.62 → age 19 AJHL 1.55 → age 20 AJHL 2.12 → age 21 NCAA 0.92 → age 22 NCAA 1.17 → age 23 NCAA 1.06 → age 24 NCAA 1.43

All 3 columns shown

Player	Distance (lower is closer)	What he did afterwards
Dillon DubeC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.01	age 25 NHL 0.16 → age 26 KHL 0.20 → age 27 AHL 0.37
Andrei KuzmenkoL · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.02	age 25 KHL 0.50 → age 26 KHL 0.91 → age 27 NHL 0.91 → age 28 NHL 0.49 → age 29 NHL 0.41
Charlie CoyleC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.03	age 25 NHL 0.68 → age 26 NHL 0.56 → age 27 NHL 0.47 → age 28 NHL 0.53 → age 29 NHL 0.31
Nick FolignoL · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.03	age 25 NHL 0.42 → age 26 NHL 0.56 → age 27 NHL 0.92 → age 28 NHL 0.51 → age 29 NHL 0.65
Kyle PalmieriC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.04	age 25 NHL 0.69 → age 26 NHL 0.66 → age 27 NHL 0.71 → age 28 NHL 0.68 → age 29 NHL 0.69
Mattias JanmarkC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23	0.05	age 25 NHL 0.42 → age 26 NHL 0.31 → age 27 NHL 0.34 → age 28 NHL 0.46 → age 29 NHL 0.37
Christian DvorakC · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.05	age 25 NHL 0.55 → age 26 NHL 0.59 → age 27 NHL 0.44 → age 28 NHL 0.30 → age 29 NHL 0.40
Josh AndersonR · matched at ages 21, 22, 23, 24	0.06	age 25 NHL 0.15 → age 26 NHL 0.46 → age 27 NHL 0.46 → age 28 NHL 0.46 → age 29 NHL 0.26

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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T.J. Hughes

Official split unavailable

1 RW regulars in COL

FLA

BOS

BUF

Questions a GM still has to answer

COL do not play today

T.J. Hughes is among the most talked-about (98th percentile); attention this week is 42.84× his usual

Cap hit not published

No career arc on file

Who looked like this at 21 to 24

Reading it

Every goal, with the league's video

Speed, shot and ice