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Centre · #34

Auston Matthews

Toronto Maple Leafs
Age
29
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
97 kg
Born
San Ramon, USA
Draft
2016, round 1, #1 (TOR)

Career · 2016–17 to 2026–27

Games
693
Goals
430
Points
785
TOI per game
19:58
xGF% (5v5)
55.2%
Goals above expected
+81.7

Season by season

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

2016–17TOR82402969+217:3827914.3%2134.151.6%
2017–18TOR62342963+2518:0818718.2%1321.851.5%
2018–19TOR68373673−918:3325114.7%2030.552.2%
2019–20TOR70473380+1920:5829016.2%2530.653.9%
2020–21TOR52412566+2121:3322218.5%1330.560.3%
2021–22TOR736046106+2020:3734817.2%2942.563.7%
2022–23TOR74404585+3120:1732712.2%2840.257.3%
2023–24TOR816938107+3120:5836918.7%2949.156.1%
2024–25TOR67334578+1120:2826112.6%2538.857.0%
2025–26TOR60272653−420:4822711.9%1228.546.0%
2026–27TOR4235+122:241414.3%11.765.8%
Total1 team693430355785+14819:582,77515.5%216348.355.2%

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)
00.511.52100200300400500600
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Player card

Model-based

How 2016–17 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st line

100th 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

1st line
  • Goals /601.87100th pct
  • Assists /601.5492nd pct
  • ixG /601.51100th pct
  • Goals above expected+81.799th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)55.2%96th pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.8%88th pct
  • Relative xGF%+5.197th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4589th pct

Usage

1st line
  • TOI per game19:5898th pct
  • PP time share65.4%97th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.6%86th pct
  • Quality of competition25.7%99th 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. Tage ThompsonSTL/BUF0.97
  2. John TavaresNYI/TOR0.96
  3. Tyler ToffoliLAK/VAN/MTL/CGY/SJS0.96
  4. Jake GuentzelPIT/CAR/TBL0.95
  5. Timo MeierSJS/NJD0.95
  6. Filip ForsbergNSH0.95

Faceoffs

How often Matthews wins the draw over 2016–17 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1949+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

53.9%

5584–4780 · #44 of 211 regulars, 79th percentile

Against an average centre

54.2%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

+433

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

Draws per game

15.0

10,364 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%2275 · +0.757%2756 · +1.549%1167 · +1.259%348 · +1.146%282 · +1.358%336 · +1.248%294 · +0.255%1462 · +1.851%1444 · +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 zone54.9% 2152–1771
  • Neutral zone53.4% 1889–1646
  • Defensive zone53.1% 1543–1363

By strength

  • Even strength54.0% 5047–4300
  • Power play55.5% 297–238
  • Shorthanded49.8% 240–242

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +15 after a win, −13 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
2016–17113246.8%46.9%
2017–1868854.5%54.9%
2018–1991152.1%51.9%
2019–2092055.0%55.4%
2020–2186751.9%52.4%
2021–22122956.2%56.3%
2022–23104952.4%53.1%
2023–24131953.4%53.9%
2024–25122356.8%57.0%
2025–2697259.7%60.0%
2026–275450.0%50.7%

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.

+81.7 goals above expected

0100200300400500100200300400500600Game

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 speed34.5 km/h60th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph559th pct
  • Hardest shot135.4 km/h83rd pct
  • Distance skated23 km99th pct
  • Offensive-zone time46.0%81st 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

35.6 km/h32nd pct

▼ −0.6 km/h since 2024–25

3535.53636.53737.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.7 km/h, 39th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 36.1 km/h, 55th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 36.2 km/h, 58th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 36.2 km/h, 52nd percentile (67 games)2025–26: 35.6 km/h, 32nd percentile (60 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.123rd pct

▼ −0.3 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 4.3, 39th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 5.7, 57th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 4.1, 38th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 3.4, 25th percentile (67 games)2025–26: 3.1, 23rd percentile (60 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.1 km84th pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.1 km, 81st percentile (73 games)2022–23: 16.3 km, 92nd percentile (74 games)2023–24: 16.0 km, 76th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 16.1 km, 82nd percentile (67 games)2025–26: 16.1 km, 84th percentile (60 games)

Hardest shot

142.2 km/h66th pct

▼ −3.6 km/h since 2024–25

13014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 153.8 km/h, 90th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 151.5 km/h, 85th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 147.1 km/h, 73rd percentile (81 games)2024–25: 145.7 km/h, 78th percentile (67 games)2025–26: 142.2 km/h, 66th percentile (60 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.9%51st pct

▼ −1.0 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 48.3%, 100th percentile (73 games)2022–23: 46.7%, 94th percentile (74 games)2023–24: 45.6%, 89th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 42.9%, 64th percentile (67 games)2025–26: 41.9%, 51st percentile (60 games)