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Morgan Geekie
Boston Bruins Center
Seventeen goals and a plus-six in a first season here, on twenty-eight penalty minutes.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-20 | CAR | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 75.0 | 11:47 |
| 2020-21 | CAR | 36 | 3 | 6 | 9 | +1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 10.0 | 9:47 |
| 2021-22 | SEA | 73 | 7 | 15 | 22 | -16 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 7.2 | 12:36 |
| 2022-23 | SEA | 69 | 9 | 19 | 28 | +14 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 81 | 11.1 | 10:27 |
| 2023-24 | BOS | 76 | 17 | 22 | 39 | +6 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 130 | 13.1 | 15:25 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 256 | 39 | 63 | 102 | +8 | 82 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 342 | 11.4 | 12:27 |
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
17 goals and 22 assists in 76 games — 39 points at 15:25 a night, plus-6, with 4 power-play goals and 1 game-winner on 130 shots, converting at 13.08 per cent, and 28 penalty minutes. A career high in goals and points.
50.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,033 minutes, the 57th percentile. His ice went 44-36 against an expectation of 41.92-40.87 — almost exactly what the chances said, which on this club was rare.
The Finesse Game
130 attempts at a median of 25 feet, with 39 per cent from inside 20 and 21 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 13.08 per cent.
The shot is better than the reputation — a heavy, accurate release from the middle distance, and seventeen goals in a third-line role is a real return. 39 goals in 256 career games.
22 assists. He makes the simple pass and does not hold the puck, and the offence is a product of being in the right place rather than of creating from nothing.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 212. He forechecks honestly and finishes checks without punishing anybody, and he will win a puck on the wall against a smaller man and not against a bigger one.
28 penalty minutes in 76 games and 82 in 256 for his career is a genuinely low rate for a forward this size. He does not retaliate.
The Intangibles
Sixty-seventh overall in 2017 by Carolina, and 256 games across five seasons for three clubs, none of whom kept him.
He is 26 and had the best season of his career in his first one here. A third-round pick who is discarded twice and then scores seventeen goals for a 109-point team is exactly the sort of signing that separates a good front office from an average one, and it cost nothing.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
“He forechecks honestly and finishes checks without punishing anybody, and he will win a puck on the wall against a smaller man and not against a bigger one.”
“He forechecks honestly and finishes checks without punishing anybody, and he will win a puck on the wall against a smaller man and not against a bigger one.”
“**28 penalty minutes in 76 games and 82 in 256 for his career** is a genuinely low rate for a forward this size. He does not retaliate.”
“22 assists. He makes the simple pass and does not hold the puck, and the offence is a product of being in the right place rather than of creating from nothing.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,033 minutes
- Expected goals
- 50.6%
- 58th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 26th 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: 44 for, 36 against. Expected: 41.9 and 40.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 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 — 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, 2023-24 · 76 games
- Top speed
- 22.7 mph
- 75th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.54 a game
- Distance
- 2.48 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 99.7 mph
- 99th 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 · 1033 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, 2023-24
- The club
- BOS took 49.7% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — 0.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,033 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trent Frederic | 50.5% | 50.7% | 49.9% |
| Charlie McAvoy | 49.9% | 51.0% | 51.2% |
| Hampus Lindholm | 54.9% | 49.1% | 50.6% |
50.5% together, 50.7% for him apart and 49.9% for Frederic 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
164 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 21 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.