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Centre · #14

Tyler Motte

Chicago Blackhawks Columbus Blue Jackets Vancouver Canucks New York Rangers Ottawa Senators Tampa Bay Lightning Detroit Red Wings(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
178 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
St. Clair, USA
Draft
2013, round 4, #121 (CHI)

Career · 2016–17 to 2024–25

Games
455
Goals
53
Points
99
TOI per game
12:37
xGF% (5v5)
44.9%
Goals above expected
−12.8

Season by season

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

2016–17CHI33437+211:23468.7%04.142.9%
2017–18CBJ31325−39:56427.1%04.949.0%
2017–18VAN15202−113:53229.1%02.844.6%
2017–18All teams46527−411:13647.8%07.747.5%
2018–19VAN749716−1212:461147.9%011.241.4%
2019–20VAN34448−1013:073810.5%03.239.5%
2020–21VAN24639016:014015.0%04.441.3%
2021–22VAN497815+314:17838.4%08.647.7%
2021–22NYR9000−112:33180.0%01.556.9%
2021–22All teams587815+214:011016.9%010.248.9%
2022–23OTT38369+113:32654.6%06.143.4%
2022–23NYR245510+211:044411.4%04.852.1%
2022–23All teams6281119+312:341097.3%010.946.8%
2023–24TBL69639−812:27837.2%07.546.9%
2024–25DET55459−1111:19666.1%06.645.7%
Total7 teams455534699−3812:376618.0%065.844.9%

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)
00.20.40.60.8100200300400
8m10m12m14m16m18m100200300400Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

20th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.5533rd pct
  • Assists /600.4812th pct
  • ixG /600.6945th pct
  • Goals above expected−12.810th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)44.9%20th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.4%17th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.518th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.5393rd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:3742nd pct
  • PP time share2.0%16th pct
  • Offensive zone starts30.1%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.7%38th 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).

Most similar players this season

  1. Kevin RooneyNJD/NYR/CGY0.92
  2. Beck MalenstynWSH/BUF0.89
  3. Noel AcciariBOS/FLA/TOR/PIT0.88
  4. Tyler PitlickEDM/DAL/STL/NYR0.87
  5. Boris KatchoukTBL/CHI/OTT0.86
  6. Alexey ToropchenkoSTL0.85

Faceoffs

How often Motte wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1734+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

42.8%

215–287 · below the 1734 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

43.1%

Opponents won 50.2% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.8% against them.

Wins above average

−35

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

Draws per game

2.5

502 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%109 · +2.053%94 · +1.136%44 · +1.253%17 · +2.229%24 · +0.533%21 · 0.036%28 · −0.343%83 · +2.727%82 · +1.8Attacking 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 zone47.8% 66–72
  • Neutral zone45.7% 91–108
  • Defensive zone35.2% 58–107

By strength

  • Even strength43.6% 185–239
  • Power play41.7% 5–7
  • Shorthanded37.9% 25–41

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +17 after a win, −13 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.8 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2016–171040.0%39.6%
2017–182227.3%27.7%
2018–194831.3%32.1%
2019–201942.1%42.4%
2020–213336.4%35.1%
2021–221957.9%57.1%
2022–235141.2%41.5%
2023–2415550.3%50.0%
2024–2514541.4%42.5%

Finishing

Model-based

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.

−12.8 goals above expected

0204060100200300400Game

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

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed37.0 km/h85th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph9466th pct
  • Hardest shot138.9 km/h53rd pct
  • Distance skated163 km39th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.7%5th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

37.0 km/h81st pct

▼ −0.1 km/h since 2023–24

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 36.3 km/h, 60th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 37.6 km/h, 95th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 37.2 km/h, 88th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 37.0 km/h, 81st percentile (55 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

9.181st pct

▲ +1.4 since 2023–24

24681021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 8.3, 76th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 6.3, 64th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 7.6, 74th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 9.1, 81st percentile (55 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km59th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 15.9 km, 66th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 15.4 km, 51st percentile (62 games)2023–24: 15.6 km, 53rd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 15.7 km, 59th percentile (55 games)

Hardest shot

138.9 km/h42nd pct

▼ −3.7 km/h since 2023–24

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 145.6 km/h, 60th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 142.2 km/h, 47th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 142.5 km/h, 52nd percentile (69 games)2024–25: 138.9 km/h, 42nd percentile (55 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.7%6th pct

▼ −0.4 points since 2023–24

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 38.0%, 8th percentile (58 games)2022–23: 37.7%, 7th percentile (62 games)2023–24: 38.1%, 11th percentile (69 games)2024–25: 37.7%, 6th percentile (55 games)