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Matt Rempe
New York Rangers Center
6-9 and 261 with 67 penalty minutes in 42 games at eight and a half minutes a night.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 59 | 4 | 6 | 10 | +8 | 138 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 9.5 | 7:40 |
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
3 goals and 5 assists in 42 games — 8 points, plus-7, at 8:30 a night with 67 penalty minutes.
42.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 7th percentile, across 311 minutes. That is the lowest chance share on the roster and it comes attached to the smallest assignment on it, which is the arrangement both parties intended.
The Finesse Game
62 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet at a median of 16 feet, which is the correct plan, and 30 attempts in 42 games is the volume, which is not much of one.
10 points in 59 career games. The hands work at a standstill in front of the net and nowhere else, and a puck arriving at speed is usually gone before he has settled it.
The Physical Game
6-9 and 261 pounds — the largest man in this edition — and this is the entire report. He fights, he hits everything, and 138 penalty minutes in 59 career games is a rate almost nobody in the modern league carries.
He takes liberties and he knows exactly where the line is, which is a skill and also the thing that gets a fourth line sat down. The skating has improved and it is still the reason he is a fourth-line winger rather than a fourth-line centre.
The Intangibles
A sixth-round pick who became a genuine phenomenon in this building in his first season and has 59 NHL games at 23.
The honest read is a heavyweight in a league that has almost stopped carrying them, whose value is entirely situational and whose ice time depends on a coach who wants the option. There is no projection here beyond that, and the club keeps finding room.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 311 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.5%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 42.9%
- 5th 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: 17 for, 14 against. Expected: 11.8 and 15.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 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 496 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 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
2024-25 · 311 minutes at five-on-five
- Sam Carrick60%
- Adam Edstrom28%
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
- NYR took 47.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.5% — 5.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 311 minutes at five-on-five — 6th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Carrick | 42.4% | 42.6% | 44.6% |
| Braden Schneider | 37.5% | 46.5% | 46.7% |
| Jonny Brodzinski | 50.1% | 38.0% | 40.9% |
42.4% together, 42.6% for him apart and 44.6% for Carrick 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
45 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 7 feet. 62% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.