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Matthew Poitras
Boston Bruins Center
Fifteen points in thirty-three games at nineteen, and the best chance share of any forward on the roster.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | BOS | 33 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 12.5 | 13:24 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 33 | 5 | 10 | 15 | +4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 12.5 | 13:24 |
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
5 goals and 10 assists in 33 games — 15 points at 13:24 a night, plus-4, with 1 game-winner on 40 shots, converting at 12.5 per cent, and 6 penalty minutes. He made the club out of camp at 19 and a shoulder ended the season in January.
51.9 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 403 minutes, the 67th percentile — the best mark of any forward on this roster. His ice went 19-15 against an expectation of 17.88-16.58.
The Finesse Game
40 attempts at a median of 21 feet, with 46 per cent from inside 20 and 15 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 12.5 per cent.
The hockey sense is why a nineteen-year-old made this club — he plays slowly on purpose, holds the puck through the first check and finds the pass a beat after the defence has committed. Ten assists in thirty-three games is a real rate.
He is not fast and the shot is ordinary. The whole of it is anticipation.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 189 at 19 and the strength has not arrived. He does not win pucks on the wall and he is moved off them by grown defencemen.
6 penalty minutes in 33 games. He does not agitate and he does not retaliate, and there is nothing to correct here yet.
The Intangibles
Fifty-fourth overall in 2022, out of Guelph, and an NHL regular at 19 on a club that finished sixth in the league.
A second-round pick making a contending roster out of camp at nineteen is the most encouraging single fact about this club’s future, and the shoulder is the reason the season is thirty-three games rather than eighty-two.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 403 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.9%
- 68th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 51st 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: 19 for, 15 against. Expected: 17.9 and 16.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 16 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 41 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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
2023-24 · 403 minutes at five-on-five
- Danton Heinennow VAN36%
- Jake DeBrusknow VAN34%
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
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.9% — 2.2 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 403 minutes at five-on-five — 12th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danton Heinen | 51.7% | 52.0% | 49.5% |
| Hampus Lindholm | 56.0% | 49.6% | 51.5% |
| Kevin Shattenkirk | 51.3% | 52.2% | 55.5% |
51.7% together, 52.0% for him apart and 49.5% for Heinen 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
48 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 46% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.