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Right wing · #45 · Rookie

Matthew Phillips

Calgary Flames Washington Capitals Pittsburgh Penguins(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
173 cm
Weight
73 kg
Born
Calgary, CAN
Draft
2016, round 6, #166 (CGY)

Career · 3 seasons

Games
34
Goals
1
Points
5
TOI per game
10:14
xGF% (5v5)
46.3%
Goals above expected
−1.8
ShowAll teamsCalgary FlamesWashington CapitalsPittsburgh Penguins

Season by season

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

2020–21CGY1000014:1920.0%00.3–
After a break: 2022–23CGY200009:0210.0%00.149.9%
2023–24WSH28145−310:04175.9%02.249.1%
2023–24PIT3000011:2040.0%00.225.1%
2023–24All teams31145−310:11214.8%02.446.2%
Total3 teams34145−310:14244.2%02.846.3%

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)
00.10.20.31015202530
8m9m10m11m12m1015202530Game

Player card

Model-based

How 3 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 /600.172nd pct
  • Assists /600.6926th pct
  • ixG /600.496th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.841st pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.3%28th pct
  • CF% (5v5)43.2%7th pct
  • Relative xGF%0.057th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.1763rd pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:1410th pct
  • PP time share23.0%50th pct
  • Offensive zone starts63.9%74th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%18th 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. Marcus Sorensen0.87
  2. Logan Brown0.85
  3. Mathias Brome0.85
  4. Zachary Sanford0.84
  5. Mikhail Grigorenko0.83
  6. Austin Czarnik0.83

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.

−1.8 goals above expected

-0.500.511.522.5351015202530Game

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

−40−200+20+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 speed35.3 km/h36th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4142nd pct
  • Hardest shot108.4 km/h4th pct
  • Distance skated83 km29th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.5%5th 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

35.3 km/h25th pct

▲ +1.4 km/h since 2022–23

333435363722–2323–242022–23: 33.9 km/h, 2nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.3 km/h, 25th percentile (31 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.875th pct

▼ −15.5 since 2022–23

010203022–2323–242022–23: 23.2, 100th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 7.8, 75th percentile (31 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km68th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2022–23

14.51515.51616.522–2323–242022–23: 15.9 km, 79th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.8 km, 68th percentile (31 games)

Hardest shot

108.4 km/h0th pct

▲ +8.5 km/h since 2022–23

8010012014016022–2323–242022–23: 99.9 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 108.4 km/h, 0th percentile (31 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.5%7th pct

▼ −4.9 points since 2022–23

36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–242022–23: 42.4%, 57th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 37.5%, 7th percentile (31 games)