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Matt Boldy
Minnesota Wild Left Wing
Seventy-five goals in 203 games at 23, and the highest chance share on the club.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 203 | 75 | 96 | 171 | +23 | 97 | 21 | 0 | 14 | 595 | 12.6 | 17:56 |
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
75 games, 29 goals and 40 assists for 69 points, 10 on the power play, 48 penalty minutes, 18:55 a night and plus-5. He took 56.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,058 minutes, the 93rd percentile, and his ice went 57-44 against an expectation of 49.06-37.87.
Eight goals of finishing above expectation and six more conceded than the chances called for. That is the highest chance share of any regular forward on the club and the second-best point total.
The Finesse Game
345 attempts at a median of 27 feet with 37 per cent from inside 20, converted at 12.8 per cent against a career 12.61.
96 career assists in 203 games. The shot is heavy and it comes off quickly from the top of the circle, and the passing has arrived faster than the scouting expected. He beats a defenceman with a move rather than with speed.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 201 and will go to the front of the net without enjoying it.
48 penalty minutes in 75 games is an ordinary rate and most of it is a stick. He does not forecheck hard and he does not win many walls, which at that size is the part of his game that has not developed.
The Intangibles
Twelfth overall in 2019 out of Milford, Massachusetts, two years at Boston College, three seasons, and 171 points in 203 games.
He is 23 and has scored 29 and 31 in his two full seasons. On a club whose chance creation is twenty-sixth in the league, a 93rd-percentile winger at 23 is the second thing worth keeping.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,058 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.4%
- 93rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.9%
- 85th 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: 57 for, 44 against. Expected: 49.1 and 37.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 4 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 75 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 1058 minutes at five-on-five
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
- MIN took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.4% — 5.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,058 minutes at five-on-five — 66th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joel Eriksson Ek | 56.6% | 56.2% | 50.4% |
| Kirill Kaprizov | 60.6% | 50.8% | 51.2% |
| Brock Faber | 55.4% | 57.5% | 47.7% |
56.6% together, 56.2% for him apart and 50.4% for Eriksson Ek apart. Eriksson Ek was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Eriksson Ek 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
345 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 32 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.