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Centre · #81

Michael Eyssimont

Winnipeg Jets San Jose Sharks Tampa Bay Lightning Seattle Kraken Boston Bruins(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
183 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Littleton, USA
Draft
2016, round 5, #142 (LAK)

Career · 2021–22 to 2025–26

Games
269
Goals
33
Points
74
TOI per game
11:22
xGF% (5v5)
51.5%
Goals above expected
−15.5

Season by season

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

2021–22WPG100005:4910.0%00.053.5%
2022–23WPG19145+510:12263.8%02.854.3%
2022–23SJS20358+114:50674.5%08.062.7%
2022–23TBL15112−311:25313.2%02.650.4%
2022–23All teams5451015+312:151244.0%013.457.5%
2023–24TBL81111425+711:511497.4%412.948.2%
2024–25TBL575510010:41985.1%08.050.8%
2024–25SEA20426+110:26449.1%03.953.9%
2024–25All teams779716+110:371426.3%012.051.7%
2025–26BOS5681018−310:551097.3%410.148.7%
Total5 teams269334174+811:225256.3%848.551.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.650100150200250
8m10m12m14m16m50100150200250Game

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

3rd line

51st 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

3rd line
  • Goals /600.6543rd pct
  • Assists /600.8138th pct
  • ixG /600.9577th pct
  • Goals above expected−15.55th pct

Play-driving

2nd line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.5%73rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)52.9%86th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.774th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0236th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:2225th pct
  • PP time share8.8%34th pct
  • Offensive zone starts50.5%41st pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%39th 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. Craig SmithBOS/DAL0.83
  2. Josh LeivoSTL0.81
  3. Miles WoodNJD/COL/CBJ0.80
  4. Denis Malgin0.77
  5. Patric Hornqvist0.76
  6. William CarrierVGK/CAR0.76

Faceoffs

How often Eyssimont 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

38.0%

27–44 · below the 1020 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

37.9%

Opponents won 49.8% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.2% against them.

Wins above average

−9

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

Draws per game

1.4

71 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

90%10 · +1.628%18 · +0.531%16 · +4.820%5 · −5.020%5 · +0.325%4 · −0.50%1 · –57%7 · −1.420%5 · +2.9Attacking 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 zone29.4% 10–24
  • Neutral zone48.0% 12–13
  • Defensive zone41.7% 5–7

By strength

  • Even strength37.3% 25–42
  • Power play66.7% 2–1
  • Shorthanded0.0% 0–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +4 after a win, −14 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.4 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2022–233435.3%35.6%
2023–241346.2%45.5%
2024–251833.3%33.8%
2025–26650.0%46.7%

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.

−15.5 goals above expected

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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 speed36.2 km/h65th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4542nd pct
  • Hardest shot135.3 km/h44th pct
  • Distance skated157 km39th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.6%43rd 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

36.2 km/h56th pct

▼ −0.6 km/h since 2024–25

30323436384021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 31.3 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.3 km/h, 59th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 38.1 km/h, 98th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 36.8 km/h, 74th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 36.2 km/h, 56th percentile (56 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.440th pct

▼ −4.4 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 8.6, 81st percentile (54 games)2023–24: 8.4, 81st percentile (81 games)2024–25: 8.8, 79th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 4.4, 40th percentile (56 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km41st pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.51721–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.3 km, 89th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 16.1 km, 86th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 16.0 km, 77th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 16.0 km, 72nd percentile (77 games)2025–26: 15.4 km, 41st percentile (56 games)

Hardest shot

135.3 km/h33rd pct

▼ −3.4 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 123.1 km/h, 1st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 138.7 km/h, 29th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 139.9 km/h, 39th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 138.7 km/h, 40th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 135.3 km/h, 33rd percentile (56 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.6%46th pct

▲ +0.6 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 42.6%, 61st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 41.7%, 48th percentile (54 games)2023–24: 42.5%, 60th percentile (81 games)2024–25: 41.0%, 35th percentile (77 games)2025–26: 41.6%, 46th percentile (56 games)