Just looking at Chisholm compared to other OHL defensemen. I recall Whileee a couple of years ago talking about junior defensemen even-strength scoring being better correlated to future success (or something like that...? Correlated to something good, anyway). So I took a look at the OHL D in the Top 100 scoring...it's basically D with over 30 points. There are 14 such defensemen. Chisholm ranks 3rd in total points/game, and 4th in even-strength points per game.
This is sorted by ES Pts/GP
Name | Team | Age | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PPG | PPA | ESScoring% | ES Pts | ES Pts/GP | Total Pts/GP |
Hoefenmayer, Noel | OTT | 21.04 | 41 | 15 | 45 | 60 | 36 | 27 | 4 | 26 | 50.00% | 30 | 0.73 | 1.46 |
McCourt, Riley | FLNT | 19.56 | 42 | 12 | 32 | 44 | -1 | 40 | 3 | 13 | 63.64% | 28 | 0.67 | 1.05 |
Corcoran, Connor | WSR | 19.45 | 41 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 21 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 67.57% | 25 | 0.61 | 0.90 |
Chisholm, Declan | PBO | 20.02 | 43 | 9 | 43 | 52 | 7 | 29 | 4 | 22 | 50.00% | 26 | 0.60 | 1.21 |
Lyle, Brady | OS | 20.61 | 42 | 11 | 30 | 41 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 60.98% | 25 | 0.60 | 0.98 |
Drysdale, Jamie | ER | 17.77 | 34 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 52.63% | 20 | 0.59 | 1.12 |
Tucker, Tyler | FLNT | 19.87 | 34 | 9 | 23 | 32 | -4 | 49 | 1 | 11 | 62.50% | 20 | 0.59 | 0.94 |
Bergkvist, Axel | KIT | 19.63 | 44 | 4 | 31 | 35 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 13 | 60.00% | 21 | 0.48 | 0.80 |
Constantinou, Billy | SOO | 18.81 | 42 | 9 | 27 | 36 | -9 | 33 | 2 | 14 | 55.56% | 20 | 0.48 | 0.86 |
Merkley, Ryan | LDN | 19.43 | 40 | 11 | 38 | 49 | 7 | 40 | 6 | 24 | 38.78% | 19 | 0.48 | 1.23 |
Solovyov, Ilya | SAG | 19.50 | 35 | 3 | 28 | 31 | 18 | 31 | 1 | 14 | 51.61% | 16 | 0.46 | 0.89 |
Harley, Thomas | MISS | 18.41 | 42 | 16 | 24 | 40 | 6 | 25 | 8 | 13 | 47.50% | 19 | 0.45 | 0.95 |
Regula, Alec | LDN | 19.45 | 37 | 14 | 20 | 34 | 18 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 44.12% | 15 | 0.41 | 0.92 |
Calisti, Robert | SOO | 18.97 | 43 | 12 | 19 | 31 | -9 | 48 | 7 | 11 | 41.94% | 13 | 0.30 | 0.72 |
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I added their current ages in, but I believe the stats folks over at Canucks Army determined the age adjustment for defensemen isn't as large as it is for forwards...but we should still note that Chisholm is the 3rd oldest on this list.
Merkley does a lot of his work on the PP it seems, scoring over 60% of his points there. Hoefenmayer is about a year older than just about everyone on the list...still a decent late-round selection by the Yotes. And that Drysdale kid looks alright...
Undrafted: Riley McCourt, Brady Lyle, Billy Constantinou, Ilya Solovyov, and Robert Calisti. Drysdale is eligible at this June's draft.