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Right wing · #2 · Rookie

Rutger McGroarty

Age
22
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
96 kg
Born
Lincoln, USA
Draft
2022, round 1, #14 (WPG)

Career · 2024–25 to 2025–26

Games
32
Goals
4
Points
9
TOI per game
12:37
xGF% (5v5)
56.2%
Goals above expected
−1.2

Season by season

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

2024–25PIT8123014:37119.1%01.655.1%
2025–26PIT24336−311:58378.1%03.756.7%
Total1 team32459−312:37488.3%05.256.2%

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)
0.10.20.30.41015202530
11m12m13m14m15m1015202530Game

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

2nd line

69th 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 /600.5934th pct
  • Assists /600.7430th pct
  • ixG /600.7851st pct
  • Goals above expected−1.247th pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)56.2%93rd pct
  • CF% (5v5)57.5%97th pct
  • Relative xGF%+5.595th pct
  • Penalty diff /601.0499th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game12:3735th pct
  • PP time share4.9%26th pct
  • Offensive zone starts60.4%63rd pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%43rd 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).

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.

−1.2 goals above expected

012345651015202530Game

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 speed36.4 km/h69th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2831st pct
  • Hardest shot138.7 km/h58th pct
  • Distance skated75 km27th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.9%48th 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

36.4 km/h61st pct

▲ +1.3 km/h since 2024–25

343536373824–2525–262024–25: 35.1 km/h, 17th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 36.4 km/h, 61st percentile (24 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.956th pct

▲ +1.7 since 2024–25

24681024–2525–262024–25: 4.1, 36th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 5.9, 56th percentile (24 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.7 km59th pct

▼ −0.1 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.524–2525–262024–25: 15.7 km, 58th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.7 km, 59th percentile (24 games)

Hardest shot

138.7 km/h49th pct

▲ +7.1 km/h since 2024–25

12513013514014515024–2525–262024–25: 131.6 km/h, 14th percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 138.7 km/h, 49th percentile (24 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.9%52nd pct

▼ −3.9 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%48%24–2525–262024–25: 45.8%, 93rd percentile (8 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 41.9%, 52nd percentile (24 games)