{"id":563972,"date":"2026-03-25T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:24:10","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-behind-debuts-for-frondell-yakemchuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/563972\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats behind debuts for Frondell, Yakemchuk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two elite prospects, Chicago Blackhawks forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/anton-frondell-8485391\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Frondell<\/a> and Ottawa Senators defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/carter-yakemchuk-8484759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Yakemchuk<\/a>, had impressive debuts Tuesday, and each player boasts strong advanced metrics to begin his career.<\/p>\n<p>Frondell, the No. 3 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft from Sweden, had one assist and two shots on goal in their win against the New York Islanders, accounting for the primary assist on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/ilya-mikheyev-8481624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/ilya-mikheyev-8481624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikheyev<\/a>&#8216;s goal in the first period. The 18-year-old played mostly on a line with elite forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/connor-bedard-8484144\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a> and also saw time on the first power play with other young players <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/frank-nazar-8483493\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Nazar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/artyom-levshunov-8484783\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artyom Levshunov<\/a>, giving the Blackhawks a glimpse of their bright future.<\/p>\n<p>Yakemchuk, the No. 7 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft from Canada, had a multipoint game (one goal, one assist), including a power-play assist, and two shots on goal in their win against the Detroit Red Wings. The 20-year-old saw time on the first power play with Ottawa\u2019s high-scoring forwards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/brady-tkachuk-8480801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/tim-st%C3%BCtzle-8482116\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Stutzle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/drake-batherson-8480208\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drake Batherson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/nhl-edge\/skaters\/dylan-cozens-8481528\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Cozens<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two elite prospects, Chicago Blackhawks forward Anton Frondell and Ottawa Senators defenseman Carter Yakemchuk, had impressive debuts Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-563972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}