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Defence · #73

Charlie McAvoy

Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
96 kg
Born
Long Beach, USA
Draft
2016, round 1, #14 (BOS)

Career · 2017–18 to 2025–26

Games
573
Goals
71
Points
361
TOI per game
23:32
xGF% (5v5)
54.9%
Goals above expected
+7.0

Season by season

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

2017–18BOS6372532+2022:09779.1%75.155.8%
2018–19BOS5472128+1422:10798.9%24.656.8%
2019–20BOS6752732+2423:101015.0%26.654.2%
2020–21BOS5152530+2224:00925.4%85.257.4%
2021–22BOS78104656+3124:381666.0%219.361.8%
2022–23BOS6774552+2922:181056.7%196.956.5%
2023–24BOS74123547+424:511339.0%1310.551.8%
2024–25BOS5071623023:40987.1%46.351.1%
2025–26BOS69115061+1324:231119.9%239.648.7%
Total1 team57371290361+15723:329627.4%9964.054.9%

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)
00.51100200300400500
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Player card

How 2017–18 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

1st pair

98th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.3286th pct
  • Assists /601.2995th pct
  • ixG /600.2885th pct
  • Shots /604.2862nd pct

Play-driving

1st pair
  • xGF% (5v5)54.9%97th pct
  • CF% (5v5)53.0%92nd pct
  • Relative xGF%+3.694th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.2688th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game23:3296th pct
  • PP time share50.3%92nd pct
  • PK time share37.2%70th pct
  • Quality of competition25.1%98th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

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.

+7.0 goals above expected

020406080100200300400500Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30+40

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 speed36.0 km/h77th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph7591st pct
  • Hardest shot149.7 km/h66th pct
  • Distance skated411 km92nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.5%52nd pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

36.0 km/h70th pct

▲ +1.2 km/h since 2024–25

3435363721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.5 km/h, 88th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 35.7 km/h, 67th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 36.3 km/h, 79th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 34.7 km/h, 35th percentile (50 games)2025–26: 36.0 km/h, 70th percentile (69 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.780th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2024–25

0123421–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 2.9, 85th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 3.3, 90th percentile (67 games)2023–24: 2.4, 74th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 1.6, 53rd percentile (50 games)2025–26: 2.7, 80th percentile (69 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.7 km99th pct

▲ +0.4 km since 2024–25

12.51313.51414.51521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 14.6 km, 97th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 14.3 km, 91st percentile (67 games)2023–24: 14.7 km, 98th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 14.3 km, 85th percentile (50 games)2025–26: 14.7 km, 99th percentile (69 games)

Hardest shot

149.7 km/h56th pct

▲ +3.9 km/h since 2024–25

14014515015516021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 148.7 km/h, 37th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 147.4 km/h, 33rd percentile (67 games)2023–24: 150.6 km/h, 55th percentile (74 games)2024–25: 145.8 km/h, 37th percentile (50 games)2025–26: 149.7 km/h, 56th percentile (69 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.5%53rd pct

▼ −3.6 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 44.7%, 89th percentile (78 games)2022–23: 45.6%, 92nd percentile (67 games)2023–24: 44.3%, 82nd percentile (74 games)2024–25: 45.1%, 92nd percentile (50 games)2025–26: 41.5%, 53rd percentile (69 games)