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Ben Merrill
C · 6′3″ / 190 lb · Shoots R · Hingham, USA · Age 20 · 2024 #166 by MTL
Overview
No NHL record yet.
The official NHL landing carries no regular-season NHL game for Ben Merrill. 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 #166, 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 | Boston Univ. | 33 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2024-25 | BCHL | Penticton Vees | 50 | 15 | 8 | 23 |
| 2024-25 | BCHL | Penticton Vees | 14 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2023-24 | USHL | Chicago Steel | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | USHS-Prep | St. Sebastian's School | 25 | 18 | 19 | 37 |
| 2022-23 | 18U AAA | South Shore Kings 18U AAA Prep | 23 | 13 | 13 | 26 |
| 2022-23 | USHS-Prep | St. Sebastian's School | 27 | 11 | 13 | 24 |
| 2021-22 | 16U AAA | Cape Cod Whalers 16U AAA | 25 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2021-22 | USHS-Prep | St. Sebastian's School | 21 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020-21 | USHS-CA | Santa Margarita Catholic 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | USPHL 16U | Boston Advantage 16U AAA | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020-21 | USPHL 16U | Boston Advantage 16U AAA | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020-21 | WYC U16 | The Tropics U16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020-21 | USPHL 16U | Boston Advantage 16U AAA | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020-21 | USPHL 16U | Boston Advantage 16U AAA | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The comparable set.
Selection rule. Ben Merrill 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 #166 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 Ben Merrill. 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 Ben Merrill. 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 Ben Merrill. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Ben Merrill 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.