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Right wing · #71

Matthew Wood

Age
21
Shoots
Right
Height
193 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Nanaimo, CAN
Draft
2023, round 1, #15 (NSH)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
80
Goals
17
Points
32
TOI per game
12:26
xGF% (5v5)
45.5%
Goals above expected
+3.3

Season by season

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

2024–25NSH6011011:3580.0%01.054.0%
2025–26NSH71171330−312:1910316.5%811.945.2%
2026–27NSH3011016:4740.0%10.846.6%
Total1 team80171532−312:2611514.8%913.745.5%

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)
00.20.40.60.811020304050607080
9m10m11m12m13m14m1020304050607080Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

53rd 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

2nd line
  • Goals /601.0378th pct
  • Assists /600.9046th pct
  • ixG /600.8358th pct
  • Goals above expected+3.378th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.5%22nd pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.3%51st pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.121st pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3682nd pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:2633rd pct
  • PP time share34.9%63rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts75.8%95th pct
  • Quality of competition23.9%29th 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 Wood wins the draw over 2024–25 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 422+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

38.9%

93–146 · below the 422 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

39.4%

Opponents won 50.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.5% against them.

Wins above average

−25

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

Draws per game

5.0

239 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

31%36 · +0.448%21 · +3.544%86 · +1.963%8 · +8.440%10 · 0.043%7 · 0.056%9 · +3.360%5 · −2.925%57 · −0.1Attacking 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 zone44.9% 48–59
  • Neutral zone40.0% 28–42
  • Defensive zone27.4% 17–45

By strength

  • Even strength39.6% 86–131
  • Power play40.0% 6–9
  • Shorthanded14.3% 1–6

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +28 after a win, −14 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.7 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2024–25333.3%33.3%
2025–2620639.8%40.2%
2026–273033.3%34.3%

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.

+3.3 goals above expected

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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 speed33.5 km/h33rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
  • Hardest shot116.2 km/h31st pct
  • Distance skated13 km63rd pct
  • Offensive-zone time44.4%73rd 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

35.3 km/h25th pct

▲ +1.5 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373824–2525–262024–25: 33.8 km/h, 2nd percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.3 km/h, 25th percentile (71 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.629th pct

▼ −1.5 since 2024–25

24681024–2525–262024–25: 5.2, 49th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 3.6, 29th percentile (71 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.3 km90th pct

▼ −0.5 km since 2024–25

141516171824–2525–262024–25: 16.8 km, 97th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 16.3 km, 90th percentile (71 games)

Hardest shot

129.3 km/h9th pct

▲ +6.6 km/h since 2024–25

12013014015024–2525–262024–25: 122.8 km/h, 1st percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 129.3 km/h, 9th percentile (71 games)

Offensive-zone time

43.3%70th pct

▼ −0.0 points since 2024–25

38%40%42%44%46%24–2525–262024–25: 43.3%, 70th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 43.3%, 70th percentile (71 games)