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Mason McTavish
Anaheim Ducks Center
Nineteen goals and eighty-six penalty minutes at twenty-one — the hardest young forward on this roster to play against.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ANA | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 16.7 | 13:05 |
| 2022-23 | ANA | 80 | 17 | 26 | 43 | -19 | 44 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 161 | 10.6 | 15:22 |
| 2023-24 | ANA | 64 | 19 | 23 | 42 | -23 | 86 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 130 | 14.6 | 16:17 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 153 | 38 | 50 | 88 | -39 | 132 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 303 | 12.5 | 15:37 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
19 goals and 23 assists in 64 games — 42 points at 16:17 a night, minus-23, with 4 power-play goals, 1 shorthanded goal and 3 game-winners on 130 shots, converting at 14.62 per cent, and 86 penalty minutes.
45.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 868 minutes, the 22nd percentile. His ice went 41-58 against an expectation of 34.22-41.43 — almost exactly what the chances said, which on this club is unusual.
The Finesse Game
130 attempts at a median of 24 feet, with 42 per cent from inside 20 and 16 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 14.62 per cent. He shoots from where goals are scored and he does not waste attempts from the boards.
He goes to the net and he arrives before the puck does. The hands in tight are good and the release is heavy for a 21-year-old.
23 assists. He will make the pass but he is a scorer first and the club is right to use him that way.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 219, and he is the hardest of the young forwards here to play against. He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he does not step out of a scrum.
86 penalty minutes in 64 games at 21 and 132 in 153 career games. Some of that is the edge and some of it is a young centre answering a cross-check he should have let go. He retaliates, and on a club that spent 6:08 a game shorthanded that is not free.
The Intangibles
Third overall in 2021, and 153 games and 88 points before his twenty-second birthday.
He captained Canada to a world junior gold and scored the goal that won it. This is a player whose compete is the loudest thing about him — on a club losing fifty games, the twenty-one-year-old was the one still finishing checks in March.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 19 goals late or in overtime, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
“**He goes to the net and he arrives before the puck does.** The hands in tight are good and the release is heavy for a 21-year-old.”
“**6-1 and 219, and he is the hardest of the young forwards here to play against.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he does not step out of a scrum.”
“**6-1 and 219, and he is the hardest of the young forwards here to play against.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he does not step out of a scrum.”
“**6-1 and 219, and he is the hardest of the young forwards here to play against.** He finishes checks, he wins pucks below the goal line, and he does not step out of a scrum.”
“**He retaliates**, and on a club that spent 6:08 a game shorthanded that is not free.”
“**This is a player whose compete is the loudest thing about him** — on a club losing fifty games, the twenty-one-year-old was the one still finishing checks in March.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 868 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.2%
- 23rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.3%
- 18th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 41 for, 58 against. Expected: 34.2 and 41.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 57 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2023-24 · 64 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 54th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.61 a game
- Distance
- 2.53 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.3 mph
- 85th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 868 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Strome43%
- Alex Killorn23%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2023-24
- The club
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.2% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 868 minutes at five-on-five — 45th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Vatrano | 43.9% | 48.3% | 43.7% |
| Ryan Strome | 44.2% | 46.1% | 43.9% |
| Cam Fowler | 46.0% | 44.8% | 44.2% |
43.9% together, 48.3% for him apart and 43.7% for Vatrano apart. He was better away from Vatrano, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Vatrano.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
185 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 42% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.