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Zachary Bolduc
Montréal Canadiens Right Wing #76
A first-round pick on his second organisation, still looking for the role that fits him.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | STL | 25 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 13.2 | 12:01 |
| 2024-25 | STL | 72 | 19 | 17 | 36 | +20 | 37 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 15.8 | 12:48 |
| 2025-26 | MTL | 78 | 12 | 18 | 30 | -6 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 101 | 11.9 | 13:38 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 175 | 36 | 39 | 75 | +14 | 71 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 259 | 13.9 | 13:04 |
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
12 goals and 30 points in 78 games, minus-6, on 13 and a half minutes a night with 3 power-play goals. Across 175 career games he has 75 points, which is a fair middle-6 rate for a 22-year-old.
The Finesse Game
The shot is the best part of him — a quick, accurate release that he gets away in traffic, and the reason he scored 20-plus in his first full season elsewhere. He shoots from the slot and the tops of the circles and converts at a decent rate.
He is not a playmaker and he is not a puck-carrier. The offence comes from finding space and being ready, which works when he is playing beside someone who draws attention and produces very little when he is not.
The skating is good without being a separator.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 187, and he plays an honest but light game. He goes to the net, takes the punishment, and does not win many battles on the wall against defencemen.
The Intangibles
The seventeenth pick in 2021, traded once already, which at 22 is more a comment on his old club’s roster than on him.
He needs a defined spot beside a creator. On a team with 100-point centre and 2 young stars, that spot exists — and there are 4 other forwards competing for it.
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.
- durable· was available
78 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 936 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.7%
- 69th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 47th 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: 37 for, 37 against. Expected: 39.9 and 37.2.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe two rank him within 2 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 — 75 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 · 78 games
- Top speed
- 22.0 mph
- 38th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.72 a game
- Distance
- 2.21 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 87.8 mph
- 68th 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
5
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 3 assists, 21 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 · 936 minutes at five-on-five
- Jake Evans32%
- Kirby Dach28%
- Nick Suzuki23%
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
- MTL took 49.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.7% — 1.9 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 936 minutes at five-on-five — 53rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lane Hutson | 58.7% | 47.2% | 54.3% |
| Mike Matheson | 45.2% | 55.3% | 47.1% |
| Noah Dobson | 50.7% | 52.2% | 46.6% |
58.7% together, 47.2% for him apart and 54.3% for Hutson 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
178 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 35% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.