Fantasy Hockey Feature: Logan Stankoven – Superstar in the making

One year ago, this column covered the first few NHL games for Dallas Stars forward Logan Stankoven. Since then, he has 11 goals and 25 assists in 74 games, which is fine production for a young player but certainly not high-end production. The 74 additional games give us a lot more data so let’s dig into what Stankoven has done in the NHL, how it compares to other players in recent history, and what that tells us about his future. 

That earlier writing on Stankoven reviewed his trajectory as a prospect, so there is no need to re-hash that. 

Checking in with the model from Hockey Prospecting, which can be used to compare players across generations and leagues by normalizing their production, brought up another smaller forward who had a very long, very successful NHL career: 

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