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Matt Roy
Washington Capitals Defense
A seventh-round pick with a career plus-67, and no power-play goals at all.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | LAK | 25 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 34 | 5.9 | 17:08 |
| 2019-20 | LAK | 70 | 4 | 14 | 18 | +16 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 3.6 | 18:07 |
| 2020-21 | LAK | 44 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 3.5 | 19:15 |
| 2021-22 | LAK | 67 | 2 | 19 | 21 | +23 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 153 | 1.3 | 20:59 |
| 2022-23 | LAK | 82 | 9 | 17 | 26 | +8 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 135 | 6.7 | 18:47 |
| 2023-24 | LAK | 81 | 5 | 20 | 25 | +21 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 3.7 | 20:54 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 369 | 24 | 82 | 106 | +67 | 118 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 626 | 3.8 | 19:28 |
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
81 games with Los Angeles, 5 goals and 20 assists for 25 points, 42 penalty minutes, 20:54 a night and plus-21, with 1 game-winner. He took 55.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,416 minutes, the 89th percentile, and his ice went 64-50 against an expectation of 63.59-51.40.
Level with the chances at the offensive end and a goal of goaltending above them. Fifty-five point three per cent of the chances is the highest share of anybody who will play on this blue line and the plus-21 is the largest figure of anybody arriving.
The Finesse Game
200 attempts at a median of 56 feet with 75 per cent of them from beyond forty and 10 per cent from inside twenty, 129 of those on goal, converted at 3.7 per cent against a career 3.83 across 626 shots.
Eighty-two career assists and no power-play goals at all in 369 games. There is very little offence here and none of it is manufactured; the puck goes at the net from the blue line or up the wall on the first look, and the value is entirely at the other end.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 220 and took 42 penalty minutes.
118 career penalty minutes in 369 games. He is heavy and clears his own crease and defends the wall without reaching; six seasons of twenty-minute assignments for a hundred and eighteen penalty minutes is the whole argument for him.
The Intangibles
One hundred and ninety-fourth overall in 2015 by Los Angeles, six seasons, and Washington will be his second organisation.
A career plus-67 in 369 games from a seventh-round pick. He is 29, he has never scored more than 25 points in a season, and he has finished on the right side of the ledger in four of his six.
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
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He is heavy and clears his own crease and defends the wall without reaching; six seasons of twenty-minute assignments for a hundred and eighteen penalty minutes is the whole argument for him.”
“There is very little offence here and none of it is manufactured; the puck goes at the net from the blue line or up the wall on the first look, and the value is entirely at the other end.”
“A career plus-67 in 369 games from a seventh-round pick.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,416 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55.3%
- 89th pct
- Shot attempts
- 53.5%
- 82nd 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: 64 for, 50 against. Expected: 63.6 and 51.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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, 2023-24 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 87th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.52 a game
- Distance
- 2.85 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 98.2 mph
- 87th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 with LAK · 1416 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
- LAK took 54.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.3% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,416 minutes at five-on-five — 95th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vladislav Gavrikov | 54.2% | 58.0% | 51.0% |
| Trevor Moore | 56.8% | 54.7% | 58.6% |
| Phillip Danault | 55.5% | 55.2% | 58.4% |
54.2% together, 58.0% for him apart and 51.0% for Gavrikov apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Gavrikov behind.
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
200 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 10% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 75% from beyond forty.