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Centre · #21

Marc McLaughlin

Boston Bruins New Jersey Devils(traded during the season)
Age
27
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
North Billerica, USA
Draft
Undrafted

Career · 2021–22 to 2025–26

Games
35
Goals
6
Points
7
TOI per game
9:33
xGF% (5v5)
44.6%
Goals above expected
+2.9
ShowAll teamsBoston BruinsNew Jersey Devils

Season by season

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

2021–22BOS11303−110:291225.0%01.350.4%
2022–23BOS2000−110:0430.0%00.126.2%
2023–24BOS1101+112:39250.0%00.254.8%
2024–25BOS12202−19:121315.4%01.149.6%
2024–25NJD2011−19:160–00.149.3%
2024–25All teams14213−29:121315.4%01.249.6%
2025–26NJD7000−28:120–00.228.9%
Total2 teams35617−59:333020.0%03.144.6%

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)
00.050.10.150.20.250.30.35101520253035
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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

4th line

16th 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 /601.0884th pct
  • Assists /600.181st pct
  • ixG /600.5514th pct
  • Goals above expected+2.977th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.6%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.2%17th pct
  • Relative xGF%−11.41st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.0040th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:336th pct
  • PP time share2.7%20th pct
  • Offensive zone starts47.6%34th pct
  • Quality of competition23.4%24th 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. Carter Rowney0.83
  2. Riley Tufte0.82
  3. Reid Schaefer0.80
  4. Adam Edstrom0.78
  5. Gerry Mayhew0.77
  6. Conor Geekie0.77

Faceoffs

How often McLaughlin 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

40.0%

38–57 · below the 1020 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.6%

Opponents won 50.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.4% against them.

Wins above average

−9

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

Draws per game

3.7

95 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

53%19 · −0.417%6 · +4.331%16 · −2.543%7 · +2.167%3 · 0.00%1 · –100%3 · –20%10 · −0.540%30 · +4.6Attacking 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 zone27.3% 6–16
  • Neutral zone54.5% 18–15
  • Defensive zone35.0% 14–26

By strength

  • Even strength38.7% 36–57
  • Power play100.0% 2–0

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +13 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 0.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2021–221533.3%31.0%
2022–231154.5%54.9%
2023–24425.0%28.6%
2024–253243.8%43.7%
2025–263336.4%38.5%

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.

+2.9 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 speed35.1 km/h30th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph1017th pct
  • Hardest shot132.9 km/h34th pct
  • Distance skated17 km13th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.9%19th 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

35.1 km/h18th pct

▼ −0.2 km/h since 2024–25

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.2 km/h, 25th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 34.6 km/h, 9th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 31.6 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.3 km/h, 25th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.1 km/h, 18th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

10.588th pct

▲ +2.1 since 2024–25

05101521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 5.7, 55th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 11.9, 93rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 0.0, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 8.4, 77th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 10.5, 88th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

17.4 km100th pct

▲ +1.1 km since 2024–25

141516171821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.7 km, 96th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.1 km, 34th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 16.3 km, 87th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 16.3 km, 90th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 17.4 km, 100th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

132.9 km/h21st pct

▼ −1.0 km/h since 2024–25

608010012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 127.5 km/h, 4th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 118.7 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 87.3 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 133.9 km/h, 20th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 132.9 km/h, 21st percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.9%21st pct

▲ +0.1 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.6%, 24th percentile (11 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 38.1%, 9th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 45.3%, 86th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 39.8%, 21st percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 39.9%, 21st percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)