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Matthew Wood
Nashville Predators Right Wing #71
17 goals as a rookie at 20, and the 10th percentile underneath them.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | NSH | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 11:35 |
| 2025-26 | NSH | 71 | 17 | 13 | 30 | -3 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 103 | 16.5 | 12:19 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 77 | 17 | 14 | 31 | -3 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 111 | 15.3 | 12:16 |
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
17 goals and 13 assists in 71 games — 30 points, minus-3, at 12:19 a night with 4 power-play goals. His first NHL season, at 20.
The Finesse Game
The shot is genuinely good and the reason he went 15th overall. 148 unblocked attempts produced 17 goals — a strong conversion — from a median of 26 feet with 36 per cent inside 20.
17 goals in 12 minutes a night as a 20-year-old is a real rookie season and the best scoring rate per minute on the club.
13 assists says the passing is the lagging half.
The Physical Game
6-4, 202, and light for the frame. 14 penalty minutes in 71 games. He is not yet strong enough to hold the ice his shot chart wants, and gets moved off pucks by grown defencemen.
2 summers of weight is the ordinary prescription and he has not had them.
The Intangibles
45.1 per cent of the expected goals, 15th percentile, with the goals 37-36 in his favour across 759 minutes.
That is poor, and it is a 20-year-old on a club that finished 26th in expected goals against, playing the minutes a rookie gets. The scoring is the signal here and the on-ice rate is mostly the roster.
5 points in his last 10. He is 21 and the most promising forward Nashville has under 25.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 759 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 16th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 47th 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: 37 for, 36 against. Expected: 28.4 and 34.5.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 17 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 — 69 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 · 71 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 37th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.75 a game
- Distance
- 2.09 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 80.4 mph
- 21st 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 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first
5
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 759 minutes at five-on-five
- Tyson Jostoff the roster26%
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
- NSH took 47.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 2.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 759 minutes at five-on-five — 35th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filip Forsberg | 43.7% | 46.2% | 50.3% |
| Fedor Svechkov | 50.1% | 42.6% | 46.5% |
| Nicolas Hague | 42.0% | 46.5% | 48.2% |
43.7% together, 46.2% for him apart and 50.3% for Forsberg apart. Forsberg 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
148 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 36% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.