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Philippe Myers
Toronto Maple Leafs Defense
Undrafted, six-foot-five, and 36 games at sixteen minutes a night as a seventh defenceman.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | PHI | 21 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 4.0 | 15:22 |
| 2019-20 | PHI | 50 | 4 | 12 | 16 | +17 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | 5.1 | 17:06 |
| 2020-21 | PHI | 44 | 1 | 10 | 11 | -10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 1.3 | 18:52 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 27 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.6 | 14:53 |
| 2022-23 | TBL | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 | 11:33 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 11:42 |
| 2024-25 | TOR | 36 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 4.3 | 16:14 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 194 | 10 | 31 | 41 | +5 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 281 | 3.6 | 16:23 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
2 goals and 3 assists in 36 games — 5 points at 16:14 a night, even on the year, with 15 penalty minutes.
49.6 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 47th percentile, across 501 minutes. His ice went 19-15 against an expectation of 18.36-18.63, which for a seventh defenceman is a perfectly respectable line.
The Finesse Game
46 attempts in 36 games at a median of 58 feet with 81 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20, and 2 goals. He shoots from the blue line and nowhere else.
3 assists in 36 games. 41 points in 194 career NHL games. The first pass is simple and he does not attempt anything ambitious.
The Physical Game
6-5 and 221 and he defends with reach. He clears the front of his own net, he blocks shots, and he finishes checks that hurt.
15 penalty minutes in 36 games is a moderate rate. He is not an agitator and the physical game is used defensively.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he signed with Philadelphia out of the Quebec junior league in 2015 — 194 NHL games in seven seasons across three organisations.
He is 28. A 6-5 right-shot seventh defenceman who can play sixteen minutes when required is a useful thing to have on a club that dressed eight of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 501 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.6%
- 48th pct
- Shot attempts
- 50.5%
- 59th 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: 19 for, 15 against. Expected: 18.4 and 18.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 31 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 501 minutes at five-on-five
- Simon Benoit21%
- Jake McCabe11%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- TOR took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.6% — 0.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 501 minutes at five-on-five — 17th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Rielly | 52.7% | 44.8% | 48.8% |
| William Nylander | 51.4% | 48.7% | 49.3% |
| John Tavares | 45.2% | 51.8% | 49.5% |
52.7% together, 44.8% for him apart and 48.8% for Rielly 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
70 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 67 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 81% from beyond forty.