Cole Knuble
Points by season
Career NHL points, ending with the 84-game projection (violet).
Pool value
Projected full-season fantasy worth.
why 44?
Each row is one fantasy category turned into points over a full 84-game season. Add the rows up and that is his total fantasy worth.
- proj goals22 × 3+66
- proj assists15 × 1+15
- PP points0 × 0.5+0
- game-winning goals0 × 0.5+0
- OT goals0 × 0.25+0
- shots149 × 0.1+14.9
- PIM0 × 0.05+0
- ice time (min)1016 × 0.01+10.2
- total106 pool points · an elite forward season scores 242106 = 44/100
Weights follow what the average fantasy league actually counts: goals at 3× assists (the universal core), power-play points and game-winners at half weight (common extra categories), OT goals, shots and PIM small (many leagues skip them), and ice time as a quiet availability bonus. The scale: add up a whole season of those categories and compare against the best forwards in the NHL — an elite season scores about 242 points, and that is what 100 means. So 106 points is 44 out of a perfect fantasy season at his position. Defensemen and forwards are graded on separate scales because the D slot can only be filled by a defenseman. Goals and assists come from the backtested season model; the rest ride your own season-to-date pace over 84 games (9 games so far — small sample, secondary lines will move as roles settle). Hits/blocks are excluded: the free NHL feeds don't publish full-season totals, and we don't invent them.
The Situation
- Off the net: 1.3 SOG/game lately vs 2.7 before — chances have dried up.
- Did not play the last 2 games (healthy scratch or injury — check the club report before rostering).
- Availability: played 9 of 16 for PHI — missed 7 games (2026-10-15, 2026-10-17, 2026-11-09, 2026-11-11, …).
- Ironman warning: multiple absences already — treat nightly projections for this player as low-confidence.
- Not on the NHL Status Report — recent absences were healthy scratches or coach's decisions unless a wire note says otherwise.
Every line is measured from our own boxscore ledger; absence reasons from the NHL Status Report and our transaction wire only — no insider guessing.
Finishing check on pace O/U ▲ +1.6
- TRADE VALUE: AT PACE — trade value is what the numbers say it is.
- 18.8% shooting on 16 shots against a league forward baseline of 13.5% — no career track record yet — that's 0.8 goals above what his shot volume normally buys for him (2.2 expected goals). on pace. His shrunk talent rate is 14.6%, worth PD +1.6 goals per 84 over/under his own standard.
- His goals track his shot volume almost exactly — what you see is what you have.
Model: goals vs shot volume vs live league position baselines; talent SH% is an empirical-Bayes shrinkage of the season…
His shooting talent is estimated by shrinking his season shooting percentage toward his league position mean in proportion to sample size (kappa pseudo-shots prior), then projecting the gap over 84 games at his current shot volume. Small samples stay near zero — the number only moves when the evidence does.
The method follows published hockey-analytics research: a shooter is judged against his own career shooting percentage, because a player's own career rate predicts his next goals better than any league average (“Expected by Whom? A Skill-Adjusted Expected Goals Model for NHL Shooters and Goaltenders,” arXiv:2511.07703). Thin careers (rookies) shrink toward the league mean for the position, and the season number is shrunk toward the player's own anchor with empirical-Bayes weights — Nandakumar & Jensen (2019), Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, doi:10.1146/annurev-statistics-030718-105202. This section is about the gap between luck and his pace, not talent.
Season stats
NHL regular-season totals, season by season. The 84-G proj line extends the current season with our public model — methodology in the caption below the table.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PPG | PPP | SHG | TOI/GP | GWG | OTG | S | S% | FOW% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | Flyers | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:06 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 18.8% | 13.3% |
| 84-G proj | Flyers | 84 | 22 | 15 | 37 | — | 25 | — | 5 | — | 13:52 | — | — | 140 | — | — |
84-G proj — current pace blended with the player's own history (recent seasons weighted heaviest), mixed with a similarity projection from historical players with comparable profiles, then adjusted for the aging curve (league-average peak at 27; decline after) — at age 22 that is 2%. Dashes mark stats the model doesn't project.
Goals — with the line
| Time | ST | Type | Goal | His line | Opp ice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1 · vs UTA | |||||
| P3 18:26 | EV | Goal | Knuble (Acciari, Drysdale) → 6-3 | Couturier · Acciari · Cates · Knuble · Michkov · Martone Seeler · Benoit · York · Drysdale | Lee · Trocheck · Stenlund · Keller · Carcone · Hayton · Guenther · Cooley Sergachev · Duda · Simashev Vejmelka (G) |
| Oct 21 · @ BUF | |||||
| P3 03:03 | EV | Goal | Knuble (Bonk) → 3-1 | Couturier · Gaucher · Foerster · Bump · Knuble · Barkey Seeler · Sanheim · Drysdale · Bonk | Thompson · Quinn · Doan · Kulich · Ostlund · Benson Samuelsson · Dahlin · Crevier · Metsa Luukkonen (G) |
Line mates
Teammates sharing the most ice time with Cole over the last 6 games — reconstructed shift-by-shift from the NHL's official timing feed (goalies excluded).
| Player | Shared min | GP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travis Sanheim PHI | 29 | 6 | |
| Oliver Bonk PHI | 29 | 6 | |
| Owen Tippett PHI | 25 | 4 | |
| Jamie Drysdale PHI | 22 | 6 | |
| Denver Barkey PHI | 20 | 6 |
Data via the public NHL API · 2026 Pro Hockey Stats