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Centre · #15

Matthew Highmore

Chicago Blackhawks Vancouver Canucks St. Louis Blues Ottawa Senators(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
180 cm
Weight
87 kg
Born
Halifax, CAN
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 7 seasons

Games
187
Goals
14
Points
35
TOI per game
11:19
xGF% (5v5)
44.8%
Goals above expected
−7.3
ShowAll teamsChicago BlackhawksVancouver CanucksSt. Louis BluesOttawa Senators

Season by season

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

2017–18CHI13202−412:09277.4%02.147.5%
After a break: 2019–20CHI36246−19:49355.7%03.544.0%
2020–21CHI24022−58:50200.0%02.544.0%
2020–21VAN18325015:222015.0%02.341.3%
2020–21All teams42347−511:38407.5%04.842.4%
2021–22VAN465712+112:42618.2%16.246.3%
2022–23STL2000+110:4520.0%00.147.6%
2023–24OTT702207:4310.0%00.647.2%
2024–25OTT41246−511:10336.1%04.044.4%
Total4 teams187142135−1311:191997.0%121.344.8%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080100120140160180
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Player card

Model-based

How 7 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

15th 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 /600.4016th pct
  • Assists /600.6018th pct
  • ixG /600.6026th pct
  • Goals above expected−7.318th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)44.8%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.5%18th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.633rd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.6294th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:1924th pct
  • PP time share2.3%18th pct
  • Offensive zone starts41.7%21st pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%17th 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. Liam FoudyCBJ0.96
  2. Tobias RiederLAK/CGY0.92
  3. Saku Maenalanen0.91
  4. Tom KuhnhacklNYI0.90
  5. Marcus SorensenSJS0.90
  6. Christoffer EhnDET0.89

Faceoffs

How often Highmore wins the draw over 7 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1329+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

34.0%

17–33 · below the 1329 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

33.8%

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

Wins above average

−8

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

Draws per game

1.5

50 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

45%11 · −1.033%15 · +0.450%4 · +8.950%2 · 0.033%3 · +4.825%4 · 0.00%7 · –50%4 · −1.1Attacking 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 zone36.8% 7–12
  • Neutral zone40.0% 8–12
  • Defensive zone18.2% 2–9

By strength

  • Even strength33.3% 15–30
  • Shorthanded40.0% 2–3

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +24 after a win, −15 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–18520.0%22.5%
2019–20425.0%26.4%
2020–211050.0%49.0%
2021–22837.5%37.0%
2023–24450.0%48.6%
2024–251926.3%25.9%

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.

−7.3 goals above expected

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+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 speed35.7 km/h44th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2429th pct
  • Hardest shot128.4 km/h19th pct
  • Distance skated119 km34th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.0%14th 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

35.7 km/h33rd pct

▲ +2.0 km/h since 2023–24

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 35.6 km/h, 37th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 35.6 km/h, 37th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 33.7 km/h, 2nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.7 km/h, 33rd percentile (41 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.122nd pct

▼ −3.5 since 2023–24

246810121421–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 5.2, 51st percentile (46 games)2022–23: 11.2, 91st percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 6.7, 66th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 3.1, 22nd percentile (41 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km54th pct

▲ +1.6 km since 2023–24

131415161721–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 15.8 km, 61st percentile (46 games)2022–23: 15.0 km, 25th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 14.1 km, 2nd percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.7 km, 54th percentile (41 games)

Hardest shot

128.4 km/h6th pct

▼ −10.2 km/h since 2023–24

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 137.6 km/h, 26th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 134.3 km/h, 13th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 138.6 km/h, 34th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 128.4 km/h, 6th percentile (41 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.0%15th pct

▲ +1.3 points since 2023–24

36%38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 38.4%, 11th percentile (46 games)2022–23: 45.5%, 87th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 37.6%, 8th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 39.0%, 15th percentile (41 games)