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Mathieu Olivier
Columbus Blue Jackets Right Wing
Undrafted, 232 pounds, and 239 penalty minutes in 168 games.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | NSH | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 7:33 |
| 2020-21 | NSH | 30 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 70 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 12.0 | 10:55 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 10:06 |
| 2022-23 | CBJ | 66 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -20 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 6.7 | 11:38 |
| 2023-24 | CBJ | 54 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 70 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 55 | 9.1 | 11:17 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 168 | 13 | 21 | 34 | -27 | 239 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 166 | 7.8 | 11:06 |
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
5 goals and 7 assists in 54 games — 12 points at 11:17 a night, minus-4, with 1 shorthanded goal and 1 game-winner on 55 shots at 9.09 per cent, and 70 penalty minutes.
44.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 579 minutes, the 20th percentile. His ice went 19-23 against an expectation of 20.40-25.18 — two fewer goals conceded than the chances called for.
The Finesse Game
55 attempts at a median of 20 feet, with 50 per cent from inside 20 and 19 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 9.09 per cent. Thirteen goals in 168 NHL games.
7 assists. He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask — the job is to arrive first, finish the check and change.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 232, and this is the entire report. He finishes every check and he hurts people, and he leads most lineups he is in for hits despite playing eleven minutes.
239 penalty minutes in 168 games — a minute and a half a game across five seasons — and he will fight anybody. He takes liberties and he answers for them.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Rimouski, and 168 NHL games at 27 across five seasons and two clubs.
An undrafted forward who reaches the NHL by being 232 pounds and willing has one skill and it is a real one, and on a club that conceded 300 goals and was 31st at suppressing chances, seventy penalty minutes in fifty-four games is a cost the results do not obviously justify.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“**He finishes every check and he hurts people**, and he leads most lineups he is in for hits despite playing eleven minutes.”
“**6-1 and 232, and this is the entire report.**”
“**239 penalty minutes in 168 games** — a minute and a half a game across five seasons — and **he will fight anybody.** **He takes liberties and he answers for them.**”
“**Undrafted**, out of Rimouski, and **168 NHL games at 27** across five seasons and two clubs.”
“**He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask** — the job is to arrive first, finish the check and change.”
“**He does not create, he does not carry the puck and the club does not ask** — the job is to arrive first, finish the check and change.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 579 minutes
- Expected goals
- 44.8%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.8%
- 21st 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: 19 for, 23 against. Expected: 20.4 and 25.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 points of one another. 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.
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 — 62 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 · 54 games
- Top speed
- 21.7 mph
- 26th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.78 a game
- Distance
- 1.79 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.8 mph
- 56th 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 · 579 minutes at five-on-five
- Sean Kuraly54%
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
- CBJ took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 44.8% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 579 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Kuraly | 45.9% | 43.4% | 42.4% |
| Erik Gudbranson | 35.3% | 49.9% | 44.7% |
| Zach Werenski | 48.2% | 43.1% | 48.1% |
45.9% together, 43.4% for him apart and 42.4% for Kuraly apart. Kuraly was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Kuraly than for him.
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
78 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.