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Melvin Novotny
L · 6′2″ / 185 lb · Shoots L · Stockholm, SWE · Age 19 · 2025 #195 by BUF
Overview
No NHL record yet.
The official NHL landing carries no regular-season NHL game for Melvin Novotny. 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 #195, 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 | USHL | Muskegon Lumberjacks | 48 | 22 | 35 | 57 |
| 2025-26 | USHL | Muskegon Lumberjacks | 16 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 2024-25 | Hlinka Gretzky Cup | Sweden U18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024-25 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-25 | J18 Region | Leksands IF J18 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024-25 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 41 | 12 | 26 | 38 |
| 2024-25 | WJAC-19 | Sweden U18 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2024-25 | WJC-18 | Sweden U18 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024-25 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2024-25 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2024-25 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023-24 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 2023-24 | J18 Region | Leksands IF J18 | 19 | 11 | 21 | 32 |
| 2023-24 | J20 Nationell | Leksands IF J20 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 2023-24 | WHC-17 | Sweden U17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023-24 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023-24 | J18 Nationell | Leksands IF J18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022-23 | J18 Nationell | IFK Täby HC U18 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 25 |
| 2022-23 | J18 Region | IFK Täby HC U18 | 17 | 7 | 20 | 27 |
| 2022-23 | TV-Pucken | Stockholm Nord | 8 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2022-23 | U16 Div.1 | IFK Täby HC U16 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 24 |
| 2022-23 | U16 SM | IFK Täby HC U16 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2022-23 | J18 Nationell | IFK Täby HC U18 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Showing the 24 most recent pre-NHL rows of 29.
The comparable set.
Selection rule. Melvin Novotny 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 #195 in the 2025 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 Melvin Novotny. 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 Melvin Novotny. 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 Melvin Novotny. The league publishes it for skaters it tracked in the covered season, and Melvin Novotny 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.