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Centre · #51

Matthew Poitras

Age
22
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Whitby, CAN
Draft
2022, round 2, #54 (BOS)

Career · 2023–24 to 2026–27

Games
71
Goals
8
Points
29
TOI per game
13:07
xGF% (5v5)
51.5%
Goals above expected
−1.0

Season by season

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

2023–24BOS3351015+413:244012.5%14.253.6%
2024–25BOS3311011−513:05293.4%03.949.9%
2025–26BOS3101+112:07812.5%00.647.8%
2026–27BOS2112+310:40250.0%00.445.8%
Total1 team7182129+313:077910.1%19.051.5%

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)
00.20.40.60.810203040506070
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Player card

How 2023–24 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

2nd line

60th 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 /600.5227th pct
  • Assists /601.3580th pct
  • ixG /600.5820th pct
  • Goals above expected−1.051st pct

Play-driving

1st line
  • xGF% (5v5)51.5%71st pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.9%59th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.875th pct
  • Penalty diff /601.22100th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game13:0743rd pct
  • PP time share18.0%44th pct
  • Offensive zone starts69.7%87th pct
  • Quality of competition23.8%31st 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).

Faceoffs

How often Poitras wins the draw over 2023–24 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 624+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

43.8%

179–230 · below the 624 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

44.2%

Opponents won 50.4% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.6% against them.

Wins above average

−24

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

Draws per game

5.8

409 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

40%106 · +2.535%17 · −2.340%141 · +1.733%9 · +1.152%21 · −4.433%9 · +0.764%22 · +1.246%13 · +4.652%71 · +2.8Attacking 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 zone39.9% 63–95
  • Neutral zone43.7% 73–94
  • Defensive zone51.2% 43–41

By strength

  • Even strength43.0% 170–225
  • Power play60.0% 6–4
  • Shorthanded75.0% 3–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +16 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2023–2425443.7%44.2%
2024–2512945.7%46.2%
2025–261838.9%37.9%
2026–27825.0%24.8%

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.

−1.0 goals above expected

024681010203040506070Game

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

−30−20−100+10+20+30+40+50

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 speed31.1 km/h2nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot98.9 km/h14th pct
  • Distance skated3 km5th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.5%25th 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

33.9 km/h3rd pct

▼ −0.2 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373823–2424–2525–262023–24: 34.6 km/h, 10th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 34.1 km/h, 4th percentile (33 games)2025–26: 33.9 km/h, 3rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.046th pct

▲ +0.1 since 2024–25

24681023–2424–2525–262023–24: 4.1, 37th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 4.9, 45th percentile (33 games)2025–26: 5.0, 46th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.6 km52nd pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.523–2424–2525–262023–24: 15.4 km, 37th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 16.0 km, 76th percentile (33 games)2025–26: 15.6 km, 52nd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

124.1 km/h3rd pct

▼ −1.7 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015016023–2424–2525–262023–24: 132.3 km/h, 12th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 125.8 km/h, 3rd percentile (33 games)2025–26: 124.1 km/h, 3rd percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

45.2%88th pct

▲ +1.8 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%23–2424–2525–262023–24: 43.4%, 70th percentile (33 games)2024–25: 43.4%, 70th percentile (33 games)2025–26: 45.2%, 88th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)