Matt Duchene Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Mavrik Bourque is the partner who brings the best out of him

Duchene is at his best beside Bourque: 58.0% of the expected goals together against 43.6% apart.

161 minutes together, 582 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Alexander Petrovic

The pairing with Petrovic is the one that costs him: 36.2% of the expected goals together, 48.8% apart.

107 minutes together, 636 minutes apart

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Petrovic does better away from him: 49.8% of the expected goals apart against 36.2% together.

107 minutes together, 685 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Steel is a different player beside him: 52.5% of the expected goals with Duchene, 48.0% without him.

231 minutes together, 715 minutes apart for Steel

His linemates play better with him than without him, every time

Only 3 of his 13 regular 5v5 partners post a better expected-goal share beside Duchene than away from him.

partners with at least 100 minutes together and apart

He and Mavrik Bourque are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Duchene and Bourque: 4.51 expected goals an hour.

161 minutes together at 5v5

Jamie Benn is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Benn than anyone: 307 minutes, worth 45.7% of the expected goals.

15 goals for, 12 against together

The goals go his team's way when Esa Lindell is out there with him

With Lindell on the ice too, the Stars have outscored opponents 14 to 8 at 5v5.

63.6% goal share over 264 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Mavrik Bourque are out together

He gives up least beside Bourque: 3.27 expected goals against an hour.

161 minutes together at 5v5

Jamie Benn is who he runs the power play with, almost every time

On the power play his best partner is Benn: 94.2% of the expected goals over 62 minutes.

12 goals for, 0 against together

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Duchene with Benn, Heiskanen, Lindell and Steel, 53 minutes at 5v5.

46.7% of the expected goals, 4 goals for and 1 against

This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Benn, Heiskanen, Johnston and Robertson: 10 goals in 49 minutes.

12.24 goals an hour, 8.1 expected

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Benn, Harley, Lundkvist and Steel: 42.5% of the expected goals.

2 goals for, 2 against over 44 minutes

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Benn, Heiskanen, Lindell and Steel: 46.7% of the expected goals over 53 minutes.

4 goals for, 1 against, 42.6% of the attempts

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Duchene has been shuffled through 28 different five-man units, and only 2 of them have settled.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

13 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Duchene this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Thomas Harley is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Thomas Harley has assisted on 5 of his 18 goals, 27.8% of them.

3 primary, 2 secondary

Jason Robertson is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 8 of Jason Robertson's goals, 27.6% of his own assists.

5 primary, 3 secondary

His assists are the real ones, the pass that made the goal

72.4% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

21 primary of 29 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

10 different teammates have assisted on his 18 goals.

Harley (5), Steel (5), Rantanen (4), Robertson (4)

His side chases the puck while he is out there

Duchene's line owns 45.3% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

602 for, 728 against, 389th of 454 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 102.0, running hot and likely to cool.

12.6% shooting and 89.4% goaltending behind him, 96th of 454 forwards

The offence goes quiet when he steps on the ice

The Stars create 3.77 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Duchene on.

381st of 454 forwards

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

45.6% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Duchene is on.

278 for, 331 against, 369th of 454 forwards

Good things happen for his team when he is on the ice

The Stars are up 21 goals with Duchene on the ice.

73 for, 52 against, 98th of 466 forwards

Play tilts towards his own net when he is out there

At 5v5 the Stars generate 46.6% of the expected goals with Duchene on the ice.

46.7 xGF to 53.5 xGA over 743 minutes, 337th of 454 forwards

The other team gets whatever it wants when he is on

Opponents get 58.81 shot attempts an hour with Duchene on the ice at 5v5.

303rd of 454 forwards

His line finishes better than the chances it creates

His line is scoring above the chances it creates: 50.0% of the goals off 46.6% of the expected goals.

3.4 points of goal share above expectation

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

He gives up 4.33 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

202nd of 454 forwards

The power play is ordinary with him on it

On the power play his unit generates 9.85 expected goals an hour.

23 goals in 132 minutes, 137th of 269 forwards

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Stars score 50.0% of the 5v5 goals with Duchene out there.

35 for, 35 against, 204th of 454 forwards

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Duchene plays 16:30 a night, 165th among forwards.

941 minutes across 57 games

He gets an ordinary share of the power play time

He draws 2:26 of power play time a game, 128th among forwards.

14.0% of his total ice time

He is the one who makes the play, not the one who finishes it

He sets up 1.85 assists an hour of ice time.

68th in the league

He puts up points at a rate very few match

Duchene produces 2.87 points an hour of ice time.

70th in the league

He is one of the reasons the man advantage scores

On the power play he produces 0.89 points an hour.

76th in the league

He scores at a rate very few players match

He scores 1.02 goals an hour of ice time.

142nd in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.89 times an hour.

153rd most giveaways an hour

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.47 shots an hour of ice time.

761st in the league

A lot of his goals arrive when the game is on the line

Duchene has 4 game winners this season.

16 goals in total

He wins the draws his team needs him to win

He wins 52.2% of his draws.

113th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

11 takeaways against 61 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.18 takeaways per giveaway

He stays out of the box, which his coach can rely on

He takes 0.51 penalty minutes an hour.

791st most penalty minutes an hour

He avoids the physical side of the game

He finishes 1.85 checks an hour.

707th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -3 on the season.

610th in the league

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.7 times an hour.

595th in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.68 shots on goal an hour.

379th in the league

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

69.4% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

127 of 183 attempts, 14th of 468 forwards

He gets his chances from the dirty areas, not the perimeter

68.9% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

126 attempts from inside the home plate, 19th of 468 forwards

He gets to the hard areas rather than firing from range

His average attempt comes from 22.0 feet.

183 located attempts, 46th of 468 forwards

He can beat goalies from further out than most players

8.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

15 long-range attempts, 87th of 468 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

37.2% of his attempts are the snap shot.

68 attempts, 8 goals

He works one side of the ice far more than the other

43.2% of his attempts come from the middle lane.

39 left, 79 middle, 65 right

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

23.5% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

43 of 183 attempts, 324th of 468 forwards

When he shoots, it tends to be on target

67.9% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

95 of 140 unblocked, 150th of 468 forwards

He shoots about as often as anyone else

He fires 11.67 attempts an hour of ice time.

183 attempts in 941 minutes, 265th of 466 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Duchene has taken 183 shot attempts this season.

77 on goal, 45 missed, 43 blocked, 246th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Duchene has scored 4 times on Jordan Binnington this season, more than on any other goaltender.

4 goals on 9 attempts, 44.4%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Scott Wedgewood has turned him away every time: 13 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 4 goals against the Blues this season.

13 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Scott Wedgewood: 13 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

He wins the draw against this centre almost every time

He wins 75.0% of his draws against Ryan O'Reilly.

6 of 8 faceoffs

This centre beats him on the draw almost every time

Brock Nelson beats him on the draw: he wins only 27.3% of them.

3 of 11 faceoffs

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Dylan DeMelo.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 18.9% of the shots he puts on goal.

18 goals on 95 shots, 44th of 468 forwards

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Duchene has 18 goals off 11.9 expected: 6.1 more than the chances alone say.

72nd of 468 forwards

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the backhand: 18.8% of them go in.

3 goals on 16 attempts

The chances he gets in tight almost always go in

From inside 25 feet he buries 11.0% of his attempts.

14 goals on 127 close attempts, 116th of 468 forwards

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 20.0 feet out, and the longest went in from 75.

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