Tyler Motte
Detroit Red Wings Center
Nine points in sixty-nine games, six career shorthanded goals, and one job done properly.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | CHI | 33 | 4 | 3 | 7 | +2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 8.7 | 11:23 |
| 2017-18 | CBJ/VAN | 46 | 5 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 7.8 | 11:13 |
| 2018-19 | VAN | 74 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 114 | 7.9 | 12:46 |
| 2019-20 | VAN | 34 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 10.5 | 13:07 |
| 2020-21 | VAN | 24 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 15.0 | 16:01 |
| 2021-22 | VAN/NYR | 58 | 7 | 8 | 15 | +2 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 101 | 6.9 | 14:01 |
| 2022-23 | OTT/NYR | 62 | 8 | 11 | 19 | +3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 109 | 7.3 | 12:35 |
| 2023-24 | TBL | 69 | 6 | 3 | 9 | -8 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 83 | 7.2 | 12:27 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 400 | 49 | 41 | 90 | -27 | 110 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 595 | 8.2 | 12:48 |
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
Sixty-nine games in Tampa Bay, 6 goals and 3 assists with 2 shorthanded, 12:27 a night and minus-8. He converted 7.23 per cent of 83 shots against a career 8.24 across 595.
He took 49.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 716 minutes, the 51st percentile, and his ice went 44-40 against an expectation of 23.95-24.17. Twenty goals of scoring above expectation in 716 minutes is the largest gap on this roster and it is entirely the club he played for: Tampa Bay had the worst goaltending in the league and one of the better shooting groups.
The Finesse Game
Eighty-three shots at a median of 26 feet, and 6 went in. Forty-nine goals and 41 assists in 400 career games — that is 90 points in eight seasons and nobody has ever pretended otherwise.
There is no puck skill to describe. The value is entirely elsewhere.
The Physical Game
The skating is the game — he is among the quicker forwards in the league over the first three strides and he uses it to pressure rather than to attack.
He kills penalties and has 6 career shorthanded goals in 400 games, and he blocks shots at 5-10 and 194. One hundred and ten penalty minutes in 400 career games is a very low rate for a man who is in everybody’s way for a living.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick in 2013 out of St Clair, Michigan, three years at Michigan, and 400 games as a penalty-killing fourth-line winger across five clubs.
Detroit’s penalty kill was 28th in the league. He is a specialist signed to fix one thing and he is playing at home.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 716 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.8%
- 51st pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.6%
- 51st 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, 40 against. Expected: 23.9 and 24.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 201 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 60 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
2023-24 with TBL · 716 minutes at five-on-five
- Luke Glendening47%
- Conor Sheary28%
- Michael Eyssimont28%
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
- TBL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.8% — 0.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 716 minutes at five-on-five — 32nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luke Glendening | 42.8% | 55.1% | 34.9% |
| Nick Perbix | 47.7% | 50.7% | 52.1% |
| Michael Eyssimont | 53.6% | 47.5% | 47.7% |
42.8% together, 55.1% for him apart and 34.9% for Glendening apart. He was carrying it: the share stayed with him and left Glendening behind.
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
111 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 38% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.