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Matt Rempe
New York Rangers Center #73
6-9, 261 pounds, and 79 per cent of his shots from the paint.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | NYR | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 8.3 | 5:38 |
| 2024-25 | NYR | 42 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +7 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 8:30 |
| 2025-26 | NYR | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6.7 | 8:36 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 85 | 5 | 6 | 11 | +4 | 149 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 8.8 | 7:57 |
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
1 goal and no assists in 26 games — 1 point, minus-4, at 8:36 a night with 11 penalty minutes.
The Finesse Game
Almost none, and the shot chart is a curiosity worth printing. 79 per cent of his 24 unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, with a median of 14 — the highest inside share of any player in this edition.
That is not a skill. It is a man who is 6-9 standing in the crease, because there is nowhere else on the ice he can be useful.
11 points in 85 career games.
The Physical Game
6-9 and 261 pounds — the largest player in this book by 4 inches and 16 pounds, and the entire reason he has an NHL job.
He fights. That is the role, it is stated plainly by everyone involved, and he is genuinely intimidating in a way almost nobody left in the league is.
The skating is what limits him to 8 and a half minutes: he cannot forecheck at NHL pace and cannot recover if the play turns.
The Intangibles
46.6 per cent of the expected goals, 25th percentile, in 217 minutes — a sample too small to mean anything.
He is 24, a 165th overall pick, and the clearest surviving example of a job this book keeps describing as extinct. Greer scores 17, Olivier scores 15, Kastelic scores 12. Rempe scored one.
That is the difference between the modern version of the role and the one it replaced, and Rempe is the last of the second kind.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 217 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.6%
- 25th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.7%
- 65th 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: 6 for, 10 against. Expected: 7.2 and 8.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe numbers rank him 21 points above where the report does. 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 — 61 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 · 26 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 54th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.54 a game
- Distance
- 1.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 70.3 mph
- 5th 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 11 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
1
points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 0 assists, 14 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 217 minutes at five-on-five
- Jonny Brodzinskinow WSH18%
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
- NYR took 48.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.6% — 1.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 217 minutes at five-on-five — 1st percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Braden Schneider | 46.6% | 46.5% | 43.8% |
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 49.3% | 45.4% | 49.6% |
| Adam Edstrom | 52.9% | 43.4% | 42.1% |
46.6% together, 46.5% for him apart and 43.8% for Schneider 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
24 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 79% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.