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Matty Beniers

50 points at 23, and 43 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2021-22	SEA	10	3	6	9	-1	0	2	0	0	18	16.7	16:56
2022-23	SEA	80	24	33	57	+14	2	4	0	4	148	16.2	17:06
2023-24	SEA	77	15	22	37	-11	20	6	0	1	133	11.3	17:58
2024-25	SEA	82	20	23	43	0	14	5	0	2	147	13.6	18:41
2025-26	SEA	82	20	30	50	-8	23	6	0	1	149	13.4	19:17
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	331	82	114	196	-6	59	23	0	8	595	13.8	18:14

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

20 goals and 30 assists in all 82 games — 50 points, minus-8, at 19:17 a night with 6 power-play goals.

The Finesse Game

The complete centre’s toolkit, and it has taken longer to convert into points than the second pick in a draft usually gets given.

253 unblocked attempts, 22 goals, median 23 feet with 43 per cent from inside 20 — good ice, honest conversion. 30 assists is a fair rate at 19 minutes a night.

196 points in 331 career games. The Calder came in his first full season and the 4 since have all looked roughly like this one.

The Physical Game

6-2, 181, and he plays a committed two-way game without much weight behind it. 23 penalty minutes.

He wins draws, kills penalties and takes the hard shift, and he is moved off pucks by heavy centres more often than a first-line man should be.

The Intangibles

47.2 per cent of the expected goals, 30th percentile, and 46.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 24th, across 1,237 minutes — with the goals 52-48 in his favour.

On this roster that is the third-best chance share among the club’s 8 busiest skaters, which is faint praise and also the truth.

6 points in his last 10. He is 23, and the question is no longer whether he is a good NHL centre — he is — but whether Seattle ever puts enough around him to find out what kind.

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

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
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
workhorse· carries the load at even strength
15:05 a game at five-on-five, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.78) · 58% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,237 minutes

Expected goals: 47.2%; 31st pct
Shot attempts: 46.8%; 25th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 52 for, 48 against. Expected: 45.1 and 50.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

82nd

Numbers

31st

The report ranks him 51 points above where the numbers do. 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 — 78 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 · 82 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.59 a game
Distance: 3.26 miles a game
Hardest shot: 90.4 mph; 85th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 19 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1237 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, 2025-26

The club: SEA took 46.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.2% — 1.2 above the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,237 minutes at five-on-five — 85th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jordan Eberle	48.8%	37.9%	43.5%
Vince Dunn	49.6%	45.6%	42.8%
Adam Larsson	46.8%	47.4%	43.7%

48.8% together, 37.9% for him apart and 43.5% for Eberle apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

253 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 22 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 43% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.