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Matt Duchene

1,195 games, and 54 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2009-10	COL	81	24	31	55	+1	16	10	1	2	180	13.3	17:44
2010-11	COL	80	27	40	67	-8	33	3	0	2	202	13.4	18:57
2011-12	COL	58	14	14	28	-11	8	5	0	2	132	10.6	16:17
2012-13	COL	47	17	26	43	-12	12	2	0	3	132	12.9	20:55
2013-14	COL	71	23	47	70	+8	19	5	0	6	217	10.6	18:30
2014-15	COL	82	21	34	55	+3	16	2	0	4	207	10.1	18:34
2015-16	COL	76	30	29	59	-8	24	8	0	6	200	15.0	18:35
2016-17	COL	77	18	23	41	-34	12	3	1	3	160	11.3	18:18
2017-18	COL/OTT	82	27	32	59	-22	18	9	0	3	190	14.2	18:20
2018-19	OTT/CBJ	73	31	39	70	-3	8	6	0	1	172	18.0	18:50
2019-20	NSH	66	13	29	42	-4	24	5	0	1	136	9.6	16:53
2020-21	NSH	34	6	7	13	-12	6	1	0	0	73	8.2	15:50
2021-22	NSH	78	43	43	86	+6	38	16	0	6	228	18.9	19:01
2022-23	NSH	71	22	34	56	+4	32	5	0	3	168	13.1	18:19
2023-24	DAL	80	25	40	65	+15	20	6	0	7	172	14.5	16:46
2024-25	DAL	82	30	52	82	+13	12	8	0	6	152	19.7	17:09
2025-26	DAL	57	16	29	45	-3	8	5	0	4	89	18.0	16:31
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	1195	387	549	936	-67	306	99	2	59	2810	13.8	18:02

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

16 goals and 29 assists in 57 games — 45 points, minus-3, at 16:31 a night with 8 penalty minutes. His 1,195th career game and his 936th point.

The Finesse Game

The hands and the head are undiminished and the legs have gone, which is the standard shape of a 35-year-old forward and he has adapted better than most.

54 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 18, with 6 per cent from beyond 40 — the tightest distribution of any Dallas forward. 17 goals from 136 attempts.

He was a burner in Colorado who scored off the rush. He is now a slot player who scores off other people’s work, and the conversion rate says the transition is complete.

The Physical Game

5-11, 211, and 8 penalty minutes in 57 games. There is no physical component and there never was; he has built a 1,195-game career entirely on skill and reading.

The Intangibles

The 5-on-5 results were poor — 47.3 per cent of the expected goals, 32nd percentile, and 44.8 per cent of the attempts, 11th — in 760 minutes on a club whose third line was outshot by design.

11 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals.

He is 35, the third pick in 2009, and 936 points into a career that will end just short of the round numbers that get a man remembered. On a Dallas team stacked at centre he is the third one, which is a luxury and a waste at the same time.

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

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.

slot-man· shoots from where goals are scored
69.1% of his attempts in the slot, 95th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.69) · 44% keep it
disciplined· stays out of the box
0.14 penalty minutes a game over 57, 5th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.75) · 35% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 760 minutes

Expected goals: 47.3%; 32nd pct
Shot attempts: 45.2%; 13th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 35 for, 35 against. Expected: 28.8 and 32.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

44th

Numbers

32nd

The two rank him within 12 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 71 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 · 57 games

Top speed: 21.6 mph; 22nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.18 a game
Distance: 2.61 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.2 mph; 45th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 7 assists, 20 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 760 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, 2025-26

The club: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.3% — 3.2 below the club he did it on.
The role: Third line, 760 minutes at five-on-five — 35th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jamie Benn	46.4%	47.8%	50.3%
Thomas Harley	44.9%	49.2%	49.3%
Esa Lindell	54.4%	44.1%	54.3%

46.4% together, 47.8% for him apart and 50.3% for Benn apart. Benn was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more 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

136 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 16 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.