The Value Board
Two lists: tomorrow's stars and today's bargains. The first ranks every under-23 player by how likely he is to take a leap next season. The second finds players who help their team far more than their point totals suggest — the ones the market underpays attention to. Read both as scouting leads, not a cap sheet.
How to read this
Act I is a breakout board: for every under-23 skater we blend how good he already is, how fast his chance creation is growing year-over-year, and what the trained development model projects next — that's the . It's built to spot players becoming good before the goal totals announce it.
Act II hunts bargains without contract data — because we don't have any. Instead we compare each player's on-ice impact against his (the counting stats and spotlight the market actually pays for) and flag the biggest , weighted by an estimated . When both bars are long, everyone already knows; when the top bar runs far past the bottom one, that's the blind spot. Treat every number here as a scouting lead, not a cap sheet.
- IMP
- on-ice impact, as a 0–100 percentile of the league
- MKT
- market visibility — counting stats, minutes, spotlight
- GAP
- IMP minus MKT: how under-noticed the play is
- PHASE
- contract stage estimated from age and experience
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Value in the abstract is half the job — the Trade Board crosses this same value model with each club's biggest roster need and ranks the best value fits per team.
Open the Trade Board* WAR is a model-estimated proxy from on-ice impact, not official WAR. Contract phases are age/experience estimates — every "(est.)" means exactly that. Source: NHL stats API + our own xG model, rosters from the NHL API, via the analytics sidecar.