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Left wing · #57

Brett Murray

Buffalo Sabres
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
196 cm
Weight
103 kg
Born
Bolton, CAN
Draft
2016, round 4, #99 (BUF)

Career · 4 seasons

Games
26
Goals
2
Points
6
TOI per game
11:50
xGF% (5v5)
43.0%
Goals above expected
−1.1

Season by season

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

2020–21BUF2000+110:3810.0%00.370.3%
2021–22BUF19246−312:591414.3%12.643.2%
After a break: 2023–24BUF2000−17:5810.0%00.167.7%
2024–25BUF3000−27:550–00.06.5%
Total1 team26246−511:501612.5%13.143.0%

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)
00.10.20.30.4101214161820222426
9m10m11m12m13m14m101214161820222426Game

Player card

Model-based

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

17th 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

4th line
  • Goals /600.3915th pct
  • Assists /600.7835th pct
  • ixG /600.6125th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.150th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)43.0%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.8%9th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.752nd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0041st pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:5026th pct
  • PP time share12.7%38th pct
  • Offensive zone starts58.1%59th pct
  • Quality of competition23.0%11th 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. Tyler EnnisOTT0.77
  2. Kurtis MacDermid0.74
  3. Tanner Kero0.74
  4. Jake Virtanen0.69
  5. Carl Soderberg0.69
  6. Adam ErneDET0.69

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.

−1.1 goals above expected

0123510152025Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed32.7 km/h3rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph12nd pct
  • Hardest shot–
  • Distance skated6 km6th pct
  • Offensive-zone time36.5%0th 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

32.7 km/h0th pct

▲ +0.0 km/h since 2023–24

3234363821–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 33.9 km/h, 4th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 32.7 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 32.7 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.514th pct

▼ −1.2 since 2023–24

024681021–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 2.4, 13th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 3.8, 34th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 2.5, 14th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km5th pct

▼ −1.5 km since 2023–24

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 15.3 km, 32nd percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.0 km, 78th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 14.5 km, 5th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

49.9 km/h0th pct

▼ −85.5 km/h since 2021–22

05010015020021–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 135.4 km/h, 18th percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 49.9 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

36.5%0th pct

▼ −5.8 points since 2023–24

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 40.4%, 33rd percentile (19 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 42.3%, 56th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 36.5%, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)