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Left wing · #58

Michael Bunting

Arizona Coyotes Toronto Maple Leafs Carolina Hurricanes Pittsburgh Penguins Nashville Predators Dallas Stars Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
31
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
84 kg
Born
Scarborough, CAN
Draft
2014, round 4, #117 (ARI)

Career · 8 seasons

Games
419
Goals
109
Points
252
TOI per game
15:24
xGF% (5v5)
54.0%
Goals above expected
−9.9

Season by season

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

2018–19ARI510109:33520.0%00.647.8%
After a break: 2020–21ARI2110313−116:423826.3%36.251.6%
2021–22TOR79234063+2715:3317513.1%524.661.1%
2022–23TOR82232649+2115:4817413.2%1026.754.9%
2023–24CAR60132336−1515:0711311.5%1616.251.2%
2023–24PIT2161319−417:195510.9%58.254.2%
2023–24All teams81193655−1915:4116811.3%2124.552.1%
2024–25PIT58141529−1815:1511012.7%1515.351.0%
2024–25NSH18549−116:274511.1%26.453.5%
2024–25All teams76191938−1915:3215512.3%1721.751.5%
2025–26NSH61131831−1714:4810812.0%912.549.7%
2025–26DAL13112−712:48185.6%12.043.3%
2025–26All teams74141933−2414:2612611.1%1014.548.8%
2026–27PHI1000010:5620.0%00.121.6%
Total7 teams419109143252−1515:2484312.9%66118.954.0%

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)
00.511.550100150200250300350400
12m14m16m18m50100150200250300350400Game

Player card

Model-based

How 8 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

89th 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 /601.0182nd pct
  • Assists /601.3383rd pct
  • ixG /601.1192nd pct
  • Goals above expected−9.913th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)54.0%88th pct
  • CF% (5v5)54.0%92nd pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.978th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4186th pct

Usage

2nd line
  • TOI per game15:2471st pct
  • PP time share41.6%77th pct
  • Offensive zone starts73.9%95th pct
  • Quality of competition24.8%79th 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. Josh DoanUTA/BUF0.95
  2. Seth JarvisCAR0.95
  3. Taylor HallBOS/CAR0.93
  4. Logan StankovenDAL/CAR0.93
  5. Jackson BlakeCAR0.93
  6. Jason ZuckerPIT/ARI/NSH/BUF0.93

Faceoffs

How often Bunting wins the draw over 8 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1376+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

39.6%

38–58 · below the 1376 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.8%

Opponents won 51.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 48.7% against them.

Wins above average

−9

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

Draws per game

1.3

96 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

63%8 · −5.442%52 · +4.839%18 · +2.817%6 · +14.30%2 · –22%9 · −0.5100%1 · –Attacking 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 zone41.4% 29–41
  • Neutral zone37.5% 6–10
  • Defensive zone30.0% 3–7

By strength

  • Even strength40.0% 30–45
  • Power play40.0% 8–12
  • Shorthanded0.0% 0–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +39 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 3.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2020–211258.3%60.5%
2021–221650.0%49.8%
2022–23250.0%48.8%
2023–242330.4%30.9%
2024–251338.5%40.4%
2025–263033.3%35.5%

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.

−9.9 goals above expected

02040608010012050100150200250300350400Game

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 speed35.9 km/h87th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph17th pct
  • Hardest shot89.5 km/h6th pct
  • Distance skated3 km4th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.9%18th 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

36.2 km/h56th pct

▲ +0.5 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.7 km/h, 76th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 36.2 km/h, 56th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 34.7 km/h, 11th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 35.7 km/h, 35th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 36.2 km/h, 56th percentile (74 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.337th pct

▲ +0.3 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.2, 50th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 5.5, 55th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 2.2, 13th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 4.0, 35th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 4.3, 37th percentile (74 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.9 km17th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.9 km, 16th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 14.7 km, 16th percentile (82 games)2023–24: 14.3 km, 5th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 14.9 km, 12th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 14.9 km, 17th percentile (74 games)

Hardest shot

139.0 km/h51st pct

▼ −2.8 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 141.2 km/h, 39th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 143.3 km/h, 53rd percentile (82 games)2023–24: 141.5 km/h, 47th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 141.8 km/h, 59th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 139.0 km/h, 51st percentile (74 games)

Offensive-zone time

45.7%92nd pct

▼ −0.5 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 46.0%, 94th percentile (79 games)2022–23: 43.7%, 71st percentile (82 games)2023–24: 47.7%, 96th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 46.2%, 95th percentile (76 games)2025–26: 45.7%, 92nd percentile (74 games)