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Lucas Van Vliet
C · 6′2″ / 175 lb · Shoots L · Livonia, USA · Age 20 · 2024 #197 by VGK
Overview
No NHL record yet.
The official NHL landing carries no regular-season NHL game for Lucas Van Vliet. Nothing here is reported as zero. The pre-NHL record below is the whole file.
What this draft slot returns.
Rates: insufficient sample (n=5 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Sample: 5 forwards taken #197, drawn only from classes old enough to judge, on the Schuckers-style pick curve published on Draft Value. A base rate describes a slot, not a person: it cannot predict this career and is not used to grade it.
Floor rule: rates below a minimum sample are suppressed, not shown thin. Exact slot needs 12+ players, the pooled pick-curve band needs 32+, matching this site's builders to the nhl-draft-intel engine's own bucket-calibration floors (12 / 18 / 32).
Career
Season by season.
No NHL regular-season row is available.
No NHL playoff row is available.
Before the NHL.
| Season | League | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | NCAA | Univ. of St. Thomas | 37 | 14 | 21 | 35 |
| 2024-25 | USHL | Dubuque Fighting Saints | 56 | 22 | 27 | 49 |
| 2024-25 | WJAC-19 | USA U19 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024-25 | USHL | Dubuque Fighting Saints | 7 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2023-24 | NTDP | U.S. National U18 Team | 51 | 13 | 9 | 22 |
| 2023-24 | USHL | USNTDP Juniors | 19 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2023-24 | WJC-18 | USA U18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022-23 | NTDP | U.S. National U17 Team | 57 | 12 | 22 | 34 |
| 2022-23 | USHL | USNTDP Juniors | 36 | 5 | 14 | 19 |
| 2022-23 | WHC-17 | USA U17 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022-23 | USHL | USNTDP Juniors | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | WYC U15 | Detroit Jr Wings U15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018-19 | QC Int PW | Detroit Honeybaked | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-18 | WSI U12 | Midwest Selects U12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015-16 | Brick Invitational | Detroit Red Wings | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
The comparable set.
Selection rule. Lucas Van Vliet has no official NHL regular-season game, so the career-similarity rule cannot run. There is nothing to match on. Instead: every player taken within five picks of #197 in the 2024 draft, with what each one has actually done since. 10 neighbours on the board.
Draft neighbours share a night and a scouting consensus, nothing else. Their careers are evidence about the slot, not about this player.
Game log
Compare observed minutes, shots and finishing across game windows →
The complete game ledger.
There is no 2025-26 game-log receipt on file for Lucas Van Vliet. The complete ledger is only collected for players who dressed for an NHL club in that season, so nothing here is reported as a run of zeroes.
Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
No Edge tracking on file for Lucas Van Vliet. The league publishes Edge for skaters from 2021-22 onward, and only for players it tracked in the covered season. Nothing is drawn here as a zero, because the absence is a coverage fact rather than a measurement.
The shot map.
No Edge shot-location detail on file for Lucas Van Vliet. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Lucas Van Vliet is not in that set for 2025-26. Nothing is drawn as a zero, because an absence from the feed is a coverage fact rather than a measurement.
The development file.
The source receipt.
Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.
Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.