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Matt Boldy
Minnesota Wild Left Wing #12
A big, skilled winger who took the leap last season and is now the second thing opponents have to plan for.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | MIN | 47 | 15 | 24 | 39 | +17 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 113 | 13.3 | 15:23 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 81 | 31 | 32 | 63 | +1 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 255 | 12.2 | 18:30 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 75 | 29 | 40 | 69 | +5 | 48 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 227 | 12.8 | 18:55 |
| 2024-25 | MIN | 82 | 27 | 46 | 73 | +1 | 51 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 271 | 10.0 | 20:17 |
| 2025-26 | MIN | 76 | 42 | 43 | 85 | +18 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 254 | 16.5 | 20:34 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 361 | 144 | 185 | 329 | +42 | 178 | 38 | 4 | 27 | 1120 | 12.9 | 19:01 |
This Season So Far
The 2026-27 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
42 goals and 85 points in 76 games, plus-18, 11 power-play goals, on 254 shots. He had never scored more than 30 before. 69 percent of his 5-on-5 ice time came with Eriksson Ek, which is the tightest forward partnership on the roster.
The Finesse Game
The release is the best part of him. He shoots quickly off the catch, changes the angle with his hands rather than his feet, and scores a lot of goals from the inner slot where a bigger winger has bought himself half a second. The shooting rate has climbed every season, and so has the willingness to take the puck to a dangerous place before releasing it.
He is a genuine playmaker as well — a patient one, who holds the puck along the wall until a linemate finds soft ice. Playing with a defensively responsible centre has let him do that without the mistakes costing much.
The skating is good rather than explosive. He is not going to beat an NHL defenceman wide on speed alone, and does not need to.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 201, and he uses it properly now. He goes to the net front, wins his share of wall battles, and takes the abuse that comes with setting up where he scores from. That was the missing piece in his first 2 seasons.
The Intangibles
The twelfth pick in 2019, and the development curve has been steady rather than dramatic — which is the version that tends to hold. At 25 he is entering the years where this should be his normal level rather than his peak.
With Zuccarello and Johansson both gone, the club needs him to drive a line rather than complement one. Nothing so far suggests he cannot.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,059 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.7%
- 69th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.6%
- 71st 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: 55 for, 36 against. Expected: 49.1 and 46.0.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 28 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 83 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, 2025-26 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 52nd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.22 a game
- Distance
- 3.14 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.6 mph
- 94th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.6
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.
Recent form
Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
10
points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 6 assists, 33 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 1059 minutes at five-on-five
- Marcus Johanssonoff the roster50%
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, 2025-26
- The club
- MIN took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,059 minutes at five-on-five — 67th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 50.7% | 54.0% | 43.5% |
| Marcus Johansson | 53.5% | 49.8% | 52.0% |
| Brock Faber | 55.5% | 48.2% | 50.7% |
50.7% together, 54.0% for him apart and 43.5% for Eriksson Ek apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Eriksson Ek behind.
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
391 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 46 of them goals. His median goal came from 14 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.