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Left wing · #24

Matt Cooke

Pittsburgh Penguins Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
48
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Belleville, CAN
Draft
1997, round 6, #144 (VAN)

Career · 2009–10 to 2014–15

Games
387
Goals
68
Points
157
TOI per game
15:05
xGF% (5v5)
49.2%
Goals above expected
+8.0

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2009–10PIT79151530+1714:4710514.3%313.2–
2010–11PIT67121830+1415:389512.6%011.551.3%
2011–12PIT82191938+515:4114712.9%615.354.3%
2012–13PIT4881321−214:436113.1%07.446.3%
2013–14MIN82101828+815:241049.6%210.144.7%
2014–15MIN294610012:362416.7%02.545.0%
Total2 teams3876889157+4215:0553612.7%1160.049.2%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.811.250100150200250300350
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Player card

How 2009–10 to 2014–15 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

47th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd line
  • Goals /600.7055th pct
  • Assists /600.9153rd pct
  • ixG /600.6237th pct
  • Goals above expected+8.086th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.2%49th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.5%40th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.520th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0342nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game15:0562nd pct
  • PP time share9.2%37th pct
  • Offensive zone starts37.1%10th pct
  • Quality of competition24.5%67th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Faceoffs

How often Cooke wins the draw over 2009–10 to 2014–15, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1134+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.7%

55–80 · below the 1134 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

41.2%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−12

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

1.3

135 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

29%7 · −0.642%24 · −0.630%23 · +1.050%6 · 0.0100%1 · –36%11 · +0.517%6 · 0.054%35 · +5.336%22 · −0.9Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone38.8% 19–30
  • Neutral zone35.5% 11–20
  • Defensive zone45.5% 25–30

By strength

  • Even strength51.5% 35–33
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded29.7% 19–45

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +2 after a win, −19 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2009–102454.2%54.8%
2010–112927.6%27.6%
2011–123354.5%55.9%
2012–131421.4%20.6%
2013–142638.5%39.0%
2014–15933.3%33.4%

Finishing

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

+8.0 goals above expected

02040608050100150200250300350Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−40−200+20+40+60+80+100+120