NHL Rookie Stats

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LIVE/PROVISIONAL · Confirmed so far, covering 3 of 14 games · Source checked Oct 17, 6:24 PM CDT

23 rookie skaters appeared
2 rookie skaters with at least one point
1 goals and 1 assists by rookie skaters
3 of 14 scheduled games covered (3 final, 7 live, 4 not started, 0 postponed)

Skaters only; rookie goalies are in their own table below. Confirmed so far.

All rookie skater appearances, October 17, 2026 (NHL schedule date)
Player	Team	Opp.	Game	G	A	P	Report
I. Protas	WSH	NJD	final	1	0	1	game
B. Nadeau	CAR	WPG	final	0	1	1	game
W. Wallinder	DET	SJS	live	0	0	0	game
V. Ottavainen	SEA	FLA	live	0	0	0	game
B. Lambert	WPG	CAR	final	0	0	0	game
A. Johansson	DET	SJS	live	0	0	0	game
A. Lombardi	NJD	WSH	final	0	0	0	game
S. Vilmanis	FLA	SEA	live	0	0	0	game
O. Bonk	PHI	OTT	live	0	0	0	game
R. Kantserov	CHI	DAL	live	0	0	0	game
F. Unger Sörum	CAR	WPG	final	0	0	0	game
C. Yakemchuk	OTT	PHI	live	0	0	0	game
M. Brandsegg-Nygård	DET	SJS	live	0	0	0	game
K. Helenius	BUF	MTL	live	0	0	0	game
C. Hutson	WSH	NJD	final	0	0	0	game
A. Hyry	DAL	CHI	live	0	0	0	game
V. Eklund	NYI	TOR	live	0	0	0	game
A. Frondell	CHI	DAL	live	0	0	0	game
P. Martone	PHI	OTT	live	0	0	0	game
A. Smits	NYR	CBJ	live	0	0	0	game
V. Björck	WPG	CAR	final	0	0	0	game
G. McKenna	TOR	NYI	live	0	0	0	game
I. Stenberg	SJS	DET	live	0	0	0	game

Rookie goalies who played, October 17, 2026
Goalie	Team	Saves	Shots against	GA	TOI	A
J. Fowler	MTL	2	2	0	05:53	–Not available
D. Garand	NYR	2	2	0	06:33	–Not available

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Source: NHL official schedule, game boxscores and the NHL's own rookie classification, keyed by NHL player id. Counts are computed from those records. Update times are Central Time. Methodology