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Left wing · #67 · Rookie

James Malatesta

Age
23
Shoots
Left
Height
175 cm
Weight
88 kg
Born
Montréal, CAN
Draft
2021, round 5, #133 (CBJ)

Career · 2023–24 to 2024–25

Games
13
Goals
2
Points
4
TOI per game
10:16
xGF% (5v5)
34.1%
Goals above expected
+0.4

Season by season

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

2023–24CBJ11224−110:131216.7%01.537.1%
2024–25CBJ2000−110:340–00.119.0%
Total1 team13224−210:161216.7%01.634.1%

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)
0.10.150.20.250.30.350.40.451010.51111.51212.513
10m10m10m10m11m11m11m1010.51111.51212.513Game

Player card

How 2023–24 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

28th 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 /600.9065th pct
  • Assists /600.9048th pct
  • ixG /600.7037th pct
  • Goals above expected+0.462nd pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)34.1%0th pct
  • CF% (5v5)38.2%1st pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.217th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.9099th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:1611th pct
  • PP time share11.0%34th pct
  • Offensive zone starts56.0%53rd pct
  • Quality of competition21.8%0th 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

+0.4 goals above expected

00.511.5224681012Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed35.8 km/h50th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph613th pct
  • Hardest shot136.6 km/h43rd pct
  • Distance skated6 km6th pct
  • Offensive-zone time30.7%0th 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

35.8 km/h39th pct

▲ +0.0 km/h since 2023–24

3535.53636.53737.523–2424–252023–24: 35.8 km/h, 44th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.8 km/h, 39th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

17.099th pct

▲ +4.2 since 2023–24

0510152023–2424–252023–24: 12.8, 94th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 17.0, 99th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.9 km68th pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2023–24

1515.215.415.615.81616.223–2424–252023–24: 15.7 km, 64th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.9 km, 68th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

136.6 km/h29th pct

▼ −1.6 km/h since 2023–24

13013514014515023–2424–252023–24: 138.3 km/h, 32nd percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 136.6 km/h, 29th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

30.7%0th pct

▼ −8.2 points since 2023–24

25%30%35%40%45%50%23–2424–252023–24: 38.9%, 16th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 30.7%, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)