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Defence · #29 · Rookie

Matthew Robertson

Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
193 cm
Weight
99 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
2019, round 2, #49 (NYR)

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
74
Goals
6
Points
18
TOI per game
17:25
xGF% (5v5)
48.5%
Goals above expected
+2.6

Season by season

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

2024–25NYR2000+317:3820.0%00.135.0%
2025–26NYR7261218−117:24797.6%03.348.7%
Total1 team7461218+217:25817.4%03.448.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.510203040506070
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Player card

How 2024–25 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 pair

47th 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

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2876th pct
  • Assists /600.5633rd pct
  • ixG /600.1642nd pct
  • Shots /603.7757th pct

Play-driving

2nd pair
  • xGF% (5v5)48.5%40th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.9%45th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.864th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.4649th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game17:2542nd pct
  • PP time share1.4%36th pct
  • PK time share29.6%51st pct
  • Quality of competition24.0%25th 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.

+2.6 goals above expected

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

−50+5+10+15

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/h81st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2859th pct
  • Hardest shot151.2 km/h73rd pct
  • Distance skated277 km58th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.1%44th 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

36.2 km/h75th pct

▲ +2.0 km/h since 2024–25

333435363724–2525–262024–25: 34.1 km/h, 15th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 36.2 km/h, 75th percentile (72 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.340th pct

▼ −0.4 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5324–2525–262024–25: 1.7, 56th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 1.3, 40th percentile (72 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km28th pct

▼ −0.7 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.224–2525–262024–25: 14.0 km, 72nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 13.3 km, 28th percentile (72 games)

Hardest shot

151.2 km/h63rd pct

▲ +11.8 km/h since 2024–25

13514014515015516024–2525–262024–25: 139.4 km/h, 16th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 151.2 km/h, 63rd percentile (72 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.1%45th pct

▲ +0.7 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 40.4%, 31st percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 41.1%, 45th percentile (72 games)