NHL equivalency (NHLe) scoring rates have been around for a while and have morphed and changed as more data becomes available. NHLe is a system that looks at how much scoring a player retains from various leagues when he moves to the NHL the following year. It’s not meant to be a definitive evaluation by any means, but it helps tell us two things:
- It gives us a basic hierarchy of feeder league difficulty. By virtue of NHLe, we can say things like “the KHL is a stronger league than Liiga.