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Left wing · #61

Michael Pezzetta

Montréal Canadiens Toronto Maple Leafs(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Left
Height
185 cm
Weight
101 kg
Born
Toronto, CAN
Draft
2016, round 6, #160 (MTL)

Career · 2021–22 to 2025–26

Games
209
Goals
15
Points
38
TOI per game
7:59
xGF% (5v5)
43.2%
Goals above expected
−2.0
ShowAll teamsMontréal CanadiensToronto Maple Leafs

Season by season

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

2021–22MTL515611−77:504910.2%05.546.6%
2022–23MTL637815−49:197010.0%16.643.6%
2023–24MTL613912+47:48427.1%03.436.0%
2024–25MTL25000−25:56140.0%01.454.7%
2025–26TOR9000−46:2820.0%00.245.3%
Total2 teams209152338−137:591778.5%117.043.2%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.550100150200
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Player card

Model-based

How 2021–22 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

8th 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 /600.5430th pct
  • Assists /600.8340th pct
  • ixG /600.6125th pct
  • Goals above expected−2.044th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.2%13th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.2%12th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.541st pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.971st pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game7:591st pct
  • PP time share1.1%9th pct
  • Offensive zone starts51.9%44th 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. Adam Klapka0.98
  2. Matt RempeNYR0.96
  3. Liam O'Brien0.95
  4. Nicolas DeslauriersPHI0.94
  5. Givani SmithDET/FLA/SJS0.90
  6. Zack MacEwenPHI/OTT0.89

Faceoffs

How often Pezzetta wins the draw over 2021–22 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1020+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.0%

22–33 · below the 1020 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.4%

Opponents won 50.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.6% against them.

Wins above average

−5

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

Draws per game

1.3

55 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

20%5 · +3.535%20 · +2.550%8 · −3.620%5 · −1.4100%1 · –50%4 · +7.60%3 · –50%2 · −9.271%7 · −4.3Attacking 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 zone39.3% 11–17
  • Neutral zone27.8% 5–13
  • Defensive zone66.7% 6–3

By strength

  • Even strength41.2% 21–30
  • Power play0.0% 0–1
  • Shorthanded33.3% 1–2

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +23 after a win, −12 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.1 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2021–221154.5%54.4%
2022–232040.0%38.7%
2023–241442.9%45.1%
2024–25825.0%26.2%
2025–2620.0%4.7%

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.

−2.0 goals above expected

0510152050100150200Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60+80

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 speed35.1 km/h31st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1017th pct
  • Hardest shot126.4 km/h16th pct
  • Distance skated16 km13th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.4%10th 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

35.1 km/h19th pct

▲ +0.1 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 36.1 km/h, 54th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 36.6 km/h, 74th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 36.2 km/h, 62nd percentile (61 games)2024–25: 35.0 km/h, 17th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 35.1 km/h, 19th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.388th pct

▼ −4.3 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 10.4, 88th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 9.6, 86th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 6.6, 65th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 14.6, 97th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 10.3, 88th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

16.3 km90th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.9 km, 68th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 16.1 km, 84th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 16.2 km, 84th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 16.3 km, 90th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 16.3 km, 90th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

126.4 km/h4th pct

▼ −14.3 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 134.1 km/h, 14th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 149.9 km/h, 79th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 142.3 km/h, 50th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 140.7 km/h, 54th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 126.4 km/h, 4th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

38.4%10th pct

▼ −3.7 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.2%, 19th percentile (51 games)2022–23: 37.5%, 5th percentile (63 games)2023–24: 38.6%, 14th percentile (61 games)2024–25: 42.1%, 54th percentile (25 games)2025–26: 38.4%, 10th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)