Matvei Gridin
Calgary Flames Right Wing
20 points in 37 games as a 19-year-old, and the worst on-ice numbers in the book.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | CGY | 37 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 8.6 | 15:10 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 37 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 8.6 | 15:10 |
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
6 goals and 14 assists in 37 games — 20 points, minus-14, at 15:10 a night. His first NHL season, at 19.
The Finesse Game
The skill is obvious and it is why he went 28th. Quick hands, a good release, and the willingness to try the pass that beats 2 men — 14 assists in 37 games is a genuinely strong rate for a teenager.
The shot comes from too far out, as it does for nearly every young forward here: 28 per cent inside 20 feet, median 30, 7 goals from 103 attempts.
7 points in his last 10. The offence is not the problem.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 182 pounds, and at 19 he is simply not strong enough yet. 2 penalty minutes in 37 games, which for a winger is an almost complete absence from the physical part of the sport.
He is removed from pucks at will. This is the ordinary condition of a 19-year-old and the ordinary remedy is 2 years.
The Intangibles
The numbers are brutal and need to be read with his age attached. 43.2 per cent of the expected goals — 7th percentile — and 43.3 per cent of the shot attempts, sixth. Across 475 minutes the ice tilted against him about as hard as it tilted against anyone in the league.
That is what happens when a teenager plays NHL minutes on a bad team, and it is an argument about deployment rather than about him. It is also a real cost the club paid.
He is the second-most interesting player on this roster after Parekh, and the 2 of them are the reason to watch Calgary at all.
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.
- sheltered· is started in the attacking end
70% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 99th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 475 minutes
- Expected goals
- 43.2%
- 8th pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.3%
- 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, 28 against. Expected: 17.2 and 22.7.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 7 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 — 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 37 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 38th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.81 a game
- Distance
- 2.43 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.7 mph
- 82nd 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
7
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 5 assists, 16 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 475 minutes at five-on-five
- Morgan Frost64%
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
- CGY took 47.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 43.2% — 3.8 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 475 minutes at five-on-five — 16th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Frost | 44.5% | 40.8% | 49.6% |
| Matt Coronato | 42.4% | 43.7% | 46.3% |
| Kevin Bahl | 45.7% | 42.2% | 44.3% |
44.5% together, 40.8% for him apart and 49.6% for Frost apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Frost and did not follow 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
103 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 28% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.