🏒@HockeyBangers2026-27 projections

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2026-27 Projection

Isak Rosen

WPG · Age 23.4 · 🇸🇪 Sweden · 5′11″, 156 lb · Draft 2021, 14th overall (BUF)
WPGteam
LWposition
240position rank
705skater rank
-43overall
-27offense
-15peripherals

Value over replacement, based on 82 games played.
Ideal for H2H 12-team banger category leagues, 16 roster spots.

Per 82 GP2026-27projection adj2025-2637 GPH224 GPH113 GPPrev 3thin
TOI11.8311.5010.6314.95
PP TOI1.511.561.312.94
G14131227
A149-027
PTS28221255
PPP87418
SOG1047876111
PIM7000
Hits39383746
Blocks38444173

Sample: 37 GP · 361 5v5 min (2025-26) — how much ice time backs these rates

Positional rankingLeft wing · league-wide (of 281)
offenseperipheralsvalue over replacement

Counts = projected deployment × projected /60 rate, per 82 GP. Rates regress off the process metric (ixG, shot-driving), not last year's finishing %. PP points = projected PP rate (anchored on the 2nd-half PP1 role, finishing regressed) × projected PP TOI.

Context-adjusted (▲/▼ vs the rate-model baseline): Rookie baseline: projected role (bigger minutes coming, Jets need scoring; one day could become someone like DeBrincat) blended with 2025-26 NHL (37 GP) at w=0.50. Per-82 line; GP/availability is separate. Tune here. PERIPHERALS RE-DERIVED 2026-07-27: the rookie-baseline blend applied its w=0.50 blend weighting to hits/blocks/PIM as well as to scoring, which is wrong for role stats. Hits and blocks are the most persistent, least noisy things a young player produces (they are excluded from the engine's 3-yr rate hedge for exactly that reason), and that side of the blend carries no real information about them, so halving the observed rate toward it just discards the best signal available. Re-derived at 65/35 toward his own observed rate over projected TOI rather than 100%, since rookie minutes can still move.

Metrics worth highlighting

The charts that move this projection — where he broke from his own 3-year rate, where the season split in half, and where we’re taking the number next year
Second-half fade
PPP
822-2323-2424-25H1H226-27

Power play points ran at a 4 pace in the second half after 18 in the first, per 82 games.

Second-half fade
PTS
2822-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5

Points ran at a 12 pace in the second half after 55 in the first, per 82 games.

Picked automatically from every chart on this card, ranked by how far each number moved. Each claim is measured off the chart drawn beside it.

Similar & complementary players

Similar makeup Forward
Closest across all seven categories — match % is the whole-profile fit
Complementary Forward
Same position, opposite profile — strong where Isak Rosen is weak or average, light where he’s strong
Profile shape — per-82 category values vs the league p99 for the position (same scale as the hero bars)
This player
GAPPPSOGPIMHitsBlocks
the profile below
vs Similar
GAPPPSOGPIMHitsBlocks
similar players hug the shape
vs Complementary
GAPPPSOGPIMHitsBlocks
complements fill the gaps

Deployment

Deployment projection — next-year TOI & PP TOI vs the last two years (the role that drives every count)
Coaching
2026-27 · Scott Arniel (WPG)
Last year (WPG, traded): Lindy Ruff BUF · pre-trade → Scott Arniel WPG · acquired mid-season (small sample) — in-season change
Metric26-27
proj
2025-26Prev 3Diff
TOI11.8311.50n/a
5v5 TOI9.949.76n/a
PP TOI1.511.56n/a
By quarter — 2025-26 vs 3-yr baseline
GP  9 · 4 · 4 · 20
TOI*
10.63Q1Q2Q3Q4
5v5 TOI
9.32Q1Q2Q3Q4
PP TOI
1.31Q1Q2Q3Q4
*Total TOI by quarter reconstructs 5v5+PP quarterly totals plus a held-flat season PK/GP — NST has no all-strength quarterly export. Level is accurate; quarter-to-quarter movement comes from 5v5+PP.
By season — year over year
TOI
11.8322-2323-2424-2525-2626-27
5v5 TOI
9.9422-2323-2424-2525-2626-27
PP TOI
1.5122-2323-2424-2525-2626-27

Shooting — volume & conversion

How much and how well he shoots — volume (SOG), finishing (% vs chance quality), and the individual shot-quality funnel (iCF ⊇ iSCF ⊇ iHDCF).

Metric (5v5)26-27
proj
2025-26Prev 3Diff
SOG/604.624.49n/a
G/600.850.83n/a
iSH%18.4918.49n/a
ixG/600.58n/a
iCF/6012.79n/a
iSCF/606.48n/a
iHDCF/602.33n/a
By quarter — 2025-26 vs 3-yr baseline
GP  9 · 4 · 4 · 20
SOG/60
4.83Q1Q2Q3Q4
iSH%
13.25Q1Q2Q3Q4
ixG/60
0.54Q1Q2Q3Q4
iCF/60
15.12Q1Q2Q3Q4
iSCF/60
6.11Q1Q2Q3Q4
iHDCF/60
1.93Q1Q2Q3Q4
By season — year over year
SOG/60
4.4922-2323-2424-2525-26
iSH%
18.4922-2323-2424-2525-26
ixG/60
0.5822-2323-2424-2525-26
iCF/60
12.7922-2323-2424-2525-26
iSCF/60
6.4822-2323-2424-2525-26
iHDCF/60
2.3322-2323-2424-2525-26
Per-82 count — 3 seasons, 2025-26 halves & 26-27 projection
G
1422-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
SOG
10422-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
The blue 26-27 point is our projection. The bold line is all situations; the muted line under it is 5v5 alone, so the gap between them is his special-teams production. Full seasons are true per-82 counts; the 2025-26 H1/H2 reconstruct all-strength from the 5v5+PP quarterly exports plus the season's held-flat PK/other. The projected 5v5 point is the engine's even-strength share of the total, converted to 5v5 by his own 5v5-to-even-strength split, so overtime and 4-on-4 scoring stays out of it.
Regression read — where next year's /60 rate lands and why (process over finishing)
TailwindProject Rosen for a bigger 2026-27 WPG role than his prior TOI implies; scoring upside if minutes climb.
ContextTrajectory: 5v5 ixG/60 fell from 0.73 (1st half) to 0.54 (2nd) even though shot volume held — a chance-quality dip, not a volume one.
TailwindAge 23 — still on the up-slope of the scoring curve.
TailwindAge 23 on a single NHL season — projected a development step, not a flat repeat: scoring rates +4% and role +3% toward the mid-20s peak (a young riser improves on last year, not repeats it).

Assists — playmaking & on-ice offense

Primary vs secondary helpers, plus the on-ice offense and luck signals underneath them.

Metric (5v5)26-27
proj
2025-26Prev 3Diff
on-ice SH%9.009.00n/a
IPP58.2958.29n/a
1A/600.330.33n/a
2A/600.000.00n/a
By quarter — 2025-26 vs 3-yr baseline
GP  9 · 4 · 4 · 20
1A/60
0.00Q1Q2Q3Q4
2A/60
0.00Q1Q2Q3Q4
By season — year over year
1A/60
0.3322-2323-2424-2525-26
2A/60
0.0022-2323-2424-2525-26
Per-82 count — 3 seasons, 2025-26 halves & 26-27 projection
A
1422-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
PTS
2822-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
The blue 26-27 point is our projection. The bold line is all situations; the muted line under it is 5v5 alone, so the gap between them is his special-teams production. Full seasons are true per-82 counts; the 2025-26 H1/H2 reconstruct all-strength from the 5v5+PP quarterly exports plus the season's held-flat PK/other. The projected 5v5 point is the engine's even-strength share of the total, converted to 5v5 by his own 5v5-to-even-strength split, so overtime and 4-on-4 scoring stays out of it.
Regression read — where next year's /60 rate lands and why (process over finishing)
TailwindProject Rosen for a bigger 2026-27 WPG role than his prior TOI implies; scoring upside if minutes climb.
ContextAssist environment looks normal (on-ice SH% 9.0%, IPP 58.3%).

Power play

PP opportunity and finishing — modelled separately from 5v5.

Metric26-27
proj
2025-26Prev 3Diff
PP TOI1.511.56n/a
PP iSH%14.3414.34n/a
PP SOG/607.257.25n/a
PP ixG/600.97n/a
By quarter — 2025-26 vs 3-yr baseline
GP  9 · 4 · 4 · 20
PP TOI/GP
1.31Q1Q2Q3Q4
PP SOG/60
6.86Q1Q2Q3Q4
PP ixG/60
0.64Q1Q2Q3Q4
By season — year over year
PP TOI/GP
1.5622-2323-2424-2525-26
PP SOG/60
7.2522-2323-2424-2525-26
PP ixG/60
0.9722-2323-2424-2525-26
Per-82 count — 3 seasons, 2025-26 halves & 26-27 projection
PPP
822-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
PPG
322-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
PPA
522-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
The blue 26-27 point is our projection. PPG and PPA are the 2 halves of the PPP above them, split by the projection's own goal/assist mix. PP-only, so the halves are exact.
Regression read — where next year's /60 rate lands and why (process over finishing)
ContextPP role steady at ~1.5 PP TOI/gp.

Physical — PIM · hits · blocks

Peripheral counting categories. Noisier and scorer-biased — read as role over the years, not pure talent.

Metric (5v5)26-27
proj
2025-26Prev 3Diff
PIMs/600.000.00n/a
Hits/602.822.82n/a
Blks/603.323.32n/a
By quarter — 2025-26 vs 3-yr baseline
GP  9 · 4 · 4 · 20
PIMs/60
0.00Q1Q2Q3Q4
Hits/60
2.90Q1Q2Q3Q4
Blks/60
3.22Q1Q2Q3Q4
By season — year over year
PIMs/60
0.0022-2323-2424-2525-26
Hits/60
2.8222-2323-2424-2525-26
Blks/60
3.3222-2323-2424-2525-26
Per-82 count — 3 seasons, 2025-26 halves & 26-27 projection
PIM
722-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
HITS
3922-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
BLK
3822-2323-2424-25H1H226-27
all5v5
The blue 26-27 point is our projection. The bold line is all situations; the muted line under it is 5v5 alone, so the gap between them is his special-teams production. Full seasons are true per-82 counts; the 2025-26 H1/H2 reconstruct all-strength from the 5v5+PP quarterly exports plus the season's held-flat PK/other. The projected 5v5 point is the engine's even-strength share of the total, converted to 5v5 by his own 5v5-to-even-strength split, so overtime and 4-on-4 scoring stays out of it.
Regression read — where next year's /60 rate lands and why (process over finishing)
ContextHits role-stable at 2.82/60 (36th pct league-wide) → 2.82 projected.
ContextBlocks role-stable at 3.32/60 (69th pct league-wide) → 3.32 projected.