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Jiri Kulich

Buffalo Sabres

Jiri Kulich

BUFForwardJersey number #20

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2026-27 regular season

Games played
1
Goals
0
Assists
0
Points
0

As of Oct 2, 6:09 AM ET · updated each morning

How good

Among 980 forwards, 2021-22 to 2026-27

Pool: every forward who played in those seasons · Sample: 76 games

Top quarter of his pool in shots on goal and goals. Top quarter in blocked shots, which describes his role rather than his quality.

Production

Production: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Points570.38
Goals800.23
Assists290.15
Shots on goal841.96
Power-play points80.00

Style and role

Style and role: percentile among 980 forwards, and the adjusted per-game rate it was computed from
StatPctlAdjusted per game
Hits210.71
Blocked shots750.67
Penalty minutes330.30

Further right means more, not better: hits, blocked shots and penalty minutes describe a role, not quality.

What adjusted per game means — not his recorded rate
Adjusted per game is the rate each percentile was computed from: his recorded rate, weighted toward recent games and pulled toward the league average by sample size, so a short career does not read as an elite one. It sits closer to average than the rate recorded, so a skater with no points in his games can still show points per game above zero.

How he got here

Each regular season

  • 2023-24: 0.00 over 1 games
  • 2024-25: 0.15 over 62 games
  • 2025-26: 0.17 over 12 games
  • 2026-27 to date: 0.00 over 1 games
  • 2026-27 projected: 0.15
Assists per game played, regular season. Filled dots are finished seasons; the smaller dot is the season to date; the dotted ring is the 2026-27 projection, the per-game rate the projections board uses. GP: games played.

What next

2026-27, projected

Full-season pace · his rate times the schedule

If he plays all 84 Buffalo Sabres games at his modelled per-game rate

Points
31.9
Goals
19.3
Assists
12.6
Shots on goal
164.3
Power-play points
0.3
Hits
59.9
Blocked shots
56.3
Penalty minutes
24.8

Based on 76 games he has played, weighted toward recent ones. It assumes he plays all 84: injuries, scratches and trades are not modelled.

How the pace is worked out — the figure the projections board ranks on

Each figure is his per-game rate, weighted toward recent games, times the 84 games on the Buffalo Sabres schedule. It is the pace the projections board ranks the league on, so the figure a reader clicked there is the one at the top of this card.

Shooting

Where he shoots, and how he finishes

Shot density · 2025-26 · open play, regular season

FewerMore attempts, up to this skater’s busiest cell

1 more attempt came from outside the offensive zone and is not in the grid.

Open play · regular season · goals

Goals against a league-average finisher, by season

In 2025-26 he scored 3 where a league-average finisher would score 2.6 from his chances: 0.4 more.

  1. 2025-26 · on the rink3 G · 2.6 avg · +0.4 · 12 GP

  2. 2024-2515 G · 15.9 avg · −0.9 · 57 GP

  3. 2023-240 G · 0.0 avg · 0.0 · 1 GP

  • Goals
  • A league-average finisher
What the ring counts — what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts

The shot model prices the chance of a goal on every unblocked attempt he took in open play during the regular season; shootouts and penalty shots are left out. Those chances are scaled so that, across the league, they add up to the goals actually scored that season, so the ring is what a league-average finisher would have scored from his attempts and each season is measured against its own average. The gap is his goals minus that; the table below lists the exact figures.

Finishing against the league average · open play, regular season

Finishing by season: goals against a league-average finisher on the same attempts
SeasonG
2025-262.63+0.41230
2024-2515.915−0.957200
2023-240.000.011

G vs avg: goals minus what a league-average finisher would score from the same attempts (Exp G, the model’s expected goals scaled to that season’s league-wide scoring).

Detail

The record

Regular season

Regular season, by season
SeasonGAP
2026-2710000.0018:45
2025-26123250.422016:22
2024-2562159240.3913414:47
2023-2410000.00114:53

2025-26 regular season by strength · G-A-P

Even strength
3 goals, 2 assists, 5 points
Power play
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points
Shorthanded
0 goals, 0 assists, 0 points

Penalty-shot goals are not counted here: each one leaves these a goal and a point below his regular-season totals.

Last 10 games

Last 10 games, newest first
DateOppGAHITBLKPIM
Oct 1@ CBJ10001008:45
Nov 1vs WSH100010011:19
Oct 30@ BOS100010018:05
Oct 28vs CBJ100012019:56
Oct 25@ TOR101020015:24
Oct 24vs TOR111002016:50
Oct 22vs DET200011215:41
Oct 20@ MTL210000018:00
Oct 18vs FLA300001015:37
Oct 15vs OTT110022013:45
Markets · latest captured, not current

Nov 1 vs Washington Capitals · 7:00 PM ET

The prices posted for a game already played. Open to see them.

The model has not beaten the Pinnacle closing line: shots-on-goal ROI −0.0709 [−0.0932, −0.0467] per unit over 7,171 bets in a 2025-26 backtest of 512 games. How this was measured

Pre-game snapshotCaptured between Jul 30, 2:39 PM ET and Oct 1, 8:21 PM ET

This game’s markets: the posted line, the model’s projection and its chance of the over
MarketLineModel projectionModel chance of over
Anytime goal0.50.322%
Assists0.50.3Not shown
Power-play points0.50.1Not shown
Shots on goal1.51.7Not shown
Hits, blocked shots, penalty minutesNo line posted.

No probability shown for assists, power-play points and shots on goal: these markets’ models are not calibrated well enough to state one.