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Matthew Knies

Toronto Maple Leafs
Position L
Age 23
Height 6'3"
Weight 232LBS
Shoots L
Birth Place Phoenix, AZ, USA
Born Oct 16, 2002

Key Insights

2025-26
This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Domi, Matthews, McCabe and Stecher: 39.0% of the expected goals.

0 goals for, 2 against over 50 minutes
This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Knies with Domi, Matthews, McCabe and Stecher, 50 minutes at 5v5.

39.0% of the expected goals, 0 goals for and 2 against
This is the group the power play actually runs through

His power-play unit is Matthews, Nylander, Rielly and Tavares: 6 goals in 58 minutes.

6.18 goals an hour, 12.4 expected
This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Domi, Ekman-Larsson, Matthews and Rielly: 60.1% of the expected goals over 34 minutes.

1 goal for, 1 against, 51.4% of the attempts
His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Knies has been shuffled through 57 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

15 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Knies this season.

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

Lineup and with-you/without-you numbers are built from shift charts, which are loaded per season. Seasons without shift data show no lineups. With-you/without-you totals exclude empty-net play, so a 6-on-5 push does not land in a with-or-without-you number. xG is Digest’s estimated model.

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Player Bio Data
DOB Oct 16, 2002
Birth Place Phoenix, AZ, USA
Height 6'3"
Weight 232 LBS
Shoots/Catches L