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Right wing · #41

Mitchell Chaffee

Minnesota Wild Tampa Bay Lightning(traded during the season)
Age
28
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Grand Rapids, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 4 seasons

Games
109
Goals
16
Points
26
TOI per game
11:30
xGF% (5v5)
43.0%
Goals above expected
+1.7
ShowAll teamsMinnesota WildTampa Bay Lightning

Season by season

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

2021–22MIN2000+17:2710.0%00.146.5%
After a break: 2023–24TBL30437+211:172714.8%03.443.7%
2024–25TBL6612618−312:026817.6%49.840.2%
2025–26TBL11011−29:3490.0%01.161.6%
Total2 teams109161026−211:3010515.2%414.343.0%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.620406080100
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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

32nd 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 /600.7757th pct
  • Assists /600.4810th pct
  • ixG /600.6939th pct
  • Goals above expected+1.772nd pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)43.0%12th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.4%19th pct
  • Relative xGF%−10.22nd pct
  • Penalty diff /600.4891st pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game11:3025th pct
  • PP time share18.4%45th pct
  • Offensive zone starts63.1%74th pct
  • Quality of competition24.1%51st 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. Juuso Parssinen0.85
  2. Conor GeekieTBL0.81
  3. Reid Schaefer0.81
  4. Klim KostinSJS0.80
  5. Colton DachCHI0.79
  6. MacKenzie Entwistle0.77

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.

+1.7 goals above expected

05101520406080100Game

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 speed34.5 km/h19th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1320th pct
  • Hardest shot134.6 km/h41st pct
  • Distance skated28 km17th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.5%28th 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

34.5 km/h8th pct

▼ −2.0 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 33.7 km/h, 2nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 35.3 km/h, 27th percentile (30 games)2024–25: 36.6 km/h, 65th percentile (66 games)2025–26: 34.5 km/h, 8th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

7.471st pct

▲ +0.8 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 8.1, 75th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 6.4, 63rd percentile (30 games)2024–25: 6.6, 63rd percentile (66 games)2025–26: 7.4, 71st percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km67th pct

▲ +0.5 km since 2024–25

141516171821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 17.0 km, 99th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.6 km, 57th percentile (30 games)2024–25: 15.3 km, 26th percentile (66 games)2025–26: 15.8 km, 67th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

134.6 km/h29th pct

▼ −2.2 km/h since 2024–25

8010012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 97.1 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 123.6 km/h, 3rd percentile (30 games)2024–25: 136.8 km/h, 30th percentile (66 games)2025–26: 134.6 km/h, 29th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

40.5%31st pct

▼ −1.8 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 43.9%, 78th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 42.1%, 53rd percentile (30 games)2024–25: 42.3%, 58th percentile (66 games)2025–26: 40.5%, 31st percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)