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Morgan Frost
Philadelphia Flyers Center
Fifty-five per cent of the chances, and a crease that for once was on his side.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | PHI | 20 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 6.5 | 13:41 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 10:14 |
| 2021-22 | PHI | 55 | 5 | 11 | 16 | -11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 5.9 | 13:55 |
| 2022-23 | PHI | 81 | 19 | 27 | 46 | -12 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 155 | 12.3 | 16:21 |
| 2023-24 | PHI | 71 | 13 | 28 | 41 | +4 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 9.6 | 15:50 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 229 | 39 | 71 | 110 | -22 | 64 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 406 | 9.6 | 15:19 |
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
71 games, 13 goals and 28 assists for 41 points, 3 on the power play, 22 penalty minutes, 15:50 a night and plus-4, with 1 game-winner. He took 55.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 904 minutes, the 87th percentile, and his ice went 36-28 against an expectation of 40.45-33.04.
Four goals of finishing below what the chances were worth and five fewer conceded than they called for, which is one of only three positive goaltending figures among the club’s forwards. Forty-one points is his second-best season.
The Finesse Game
189 attempts at a median of 24 feet with 44 per cent of them from inside twenty, 135 of those on goal, converted at 9.6 per cent against a career 9.61 across 406 shots.
71 career assists in 229 games. He is a passer first and always has been — he slows a rush down to make one more play and finds seams below the dots that nobody else on this roster sees. Nine and a half per cent for a career says the shot is what it is.
The Physical Game
He is 6-0 and 193 and took 22 penalty minutes.
64 career penalty minutes in 229 games. There is no physical game to describe: he does not forecheck by contact, does not win pucks on the wall and is moved off them easily. On fifteen minutes a night that has been tolerable and it is why the minutes have never grown.
The Intangibles
Twenty-seventh overall in 2017, five seasons, all of them in Philadelphia, 110 points in 229 games and a career minus-22.
The 87th percentile of chances at five-on-five is the third-best figure among the club’s forwards and he played fifteen minutes a night for it. He is 25 and the argument about how much to use him has been running for four seasons.
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
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
66% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 98th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 47% keep it
“He is a passer first and always has been — he slows a rush down to make one more play and finds seams below the dots that nobody else on this roster sees.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 904 minutes
- Expected goals
- 55%
- 87th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.4%
- 67th 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: 36 for, 28 against. Expected: 40.5 and 33.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 60 points above where the report does. 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. 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 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 · 71 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 95th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.07 a game
- Distance
- 2.64 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.9 mph
- 71st pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 904 minutes at five-on-five
- Owen Tippett47%
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
- PHI took 52.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.0% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 904 minutes at five-on-five — 48th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Tippett | 56.3% | 53.8% | 49.3% |
| Nick Seeler | 58.9% | 53.4% | 51.3% |
| Travis Konecny | 57.2% | 54.0% | 52.3% |
56.3% together, 53.8% for him apart and 49.3% for Tippett apart. Tippett was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Tippett 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
189 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 19% from beyond forty.