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Matt Boldy
Minnesota Wild Left Wing
73 points and 271 shots — the most on the club by 113 — and 10 game-winning goals.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 285 | 102 | 142 | 244 | +24 | 148 | 27 | 0 | 24 | 866 | 11.8 | 18:37 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
27 goals and 46 assists in 82 games for 73 points, plus-1, on 20:17 a night with 10 game-winners and 271 shots — the most on the roster by 113.
53.5 per cent at five-on-five, the 81st percentile — the best figure among the club’s forwards who played a full season. 10 per cent conversion on that volume is low and it kept the club in games all year.
The Finesse Game
A big winger with genuine skill who has learned to shoot rather than wait. 271 attempts is a top-fifteen volume in the league and the release is quick and heavy off the pass.
46 assists is the more impressive half on a club that scored 228 goals. He holds the puck on the wall, delays, and finds the seam — and with Kaprizov out for half the season he was the only man on the roster who could create anything by himself.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 201, and he uses it. He protects the puck below the goal line, goes to the net front, and takes contact to make a play.
51 penalty minutes over 82 games is a moderate rate. The durability is excellent — three consecutive full seasons.
The Intangibles
A first-round pick who has improved in each of four NHL seasons and signed a long contract before the price rose.
At 24 the projection is 80 points beside a healthy Kaprizov. He carried this club through the half-season without him, which is the most useful thing this chapter can record.
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.
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
53.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 46.9% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.6, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
- workhorse· carries the load at even strength
14:48 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it
“He holds the puck on the wall, delays, and finds the seam”
“He protects the puck below the goal line”
“goes to the net front, and takes contact to make a play”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,214 minutes
- Expected goals
- 53.5%
- 82nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.7%
- 61st 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: 46 for, 42 against. Expected: 50.8 and 44.1.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 81 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.0 mph
- 84th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.26 a game
- Distance
- 3.16 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 91.7 mph
- 87th 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 83.9
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
2024-25 · 1214 minutes at five-on-five
- Marco Rossi46%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 53.5% — 4.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,214 minutes at five-on-five — 86th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Rossi | 53.8% | 53.2% | 51.9% |
| Brock Faber | 49.7% | 56.7% | 44.0% |
| Jake Middleton | 51.2% | 55.2% | 44.3% |
53.8% together, 53.2% for him apart and 51.9% for Rossi apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
415 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 29 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.