Matthew Robertson Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

It stops working when he is paired with Mika Zibanejad

The pairing with Zibanejad is the one that costs him: 43.6% of the expected goals together, 53.9% apart.

286 minutes together, 828 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Kartye is a different player beside him: 56.8% of the expected goals with Robertson, 39.8% without him.

114 minutes together, 264 minutes apart for Kartye

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Zibanejad does better away from him: 53.9% of the expected goals apart against 43.6% together.

286 minutes together, 887 minutes apart

Vincent Trocheck is the partner who brings the best out of him

Robertson is at his best beside Trocheck: 57.7% of the expected goals together against 49.3% apart.

251 minutes together, 863 minutes apart

He and Scott Morrow are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Robertson and Morrow: 5.39 expected goals an hour.

206 minutes together at 5v5

Will Borgen is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Borgen than anyone: 440 minutes, worth 51.7% of the expected goals.

18 goals for, 23 against together

The goals go his team's way when Tye Kartye is out there with him

With Kartye on the ice too, the Rangers have outscored opponents 10 to 5 at 5v5.

66.7% goal share over 114 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and Tye Kartye are out together

He gives up least beside Kartye: 3.58 expected goals against an hour.

114 minutes together at 5v5

J.T. Miller is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Miller: 8.27 expected goals against an hour.

32 minutes together short-handed

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Robertson with Lafrenière, Perreault, Schneider and Zibanejad, 39 minutes at 5v5.

32.5% of the expected goals, 1 goal for and 2 against

This group gets caved in every time it goes out

The five that struggles is with Lafrenière, Perreault, Schneider and Zibanejad: 32.5% of the expected goals.

1 goal for, 2 against over 39 minutes

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Robertson has been shuffled through 49 different five-man units, and only 2 of them have settled.

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

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Borgen, Lafrenière, Perreault and Zibanejad: 45.6% of the expected goals over 31 minutes.

0 goals for, 2 against, 43.9% of the attempts

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

16 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Robertson this season.

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

J.T. Miller is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

J.T. Miller has assisted on 2 of his 6 goals, 33.3% of them.

1 primary, 1 secondary

Conor Sheary is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 2 of Conor Sheary's goals, 16.7% of his own assists.

1 primary, 1 secondary

His assists are the usual mix of first and second passes

41.7% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

5 primary of 12 assists

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

8 different teammates have assisted on his 6 goals.

Miller (2), Panarin (2), Laba (1), Quick (1)

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 100.6, close to neutral.

10.1% shooting and 90.5% goaltending behind him, 104th of 246 defencemen

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 4.1 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

62nd of 246 defencemen

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Rangers are down 14 goals with Robertson on the ice.

48 for, 62 against, 166th of 245 defencemen

His line gets badly outshot when it is out there

47.3% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Robertson is on.

445 for, 495 against, 166th of 246 defencemen

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Rangers generate 51.3% of the expected goals with Robertson on the ice.

80.2 xGF to 76.0 xGA over 1,114 minutes, 86th of 246 defencemen

The kill is about average with him on it

Short-handed he concedes 10.37 expected goals an hour.

14 goals against in 108 minutes, 90th of 156 defencemen

He gives up about what an average skater gives up

Opponents get 58.12 shot attempts an hour with Robertson on the ice at 5v5.

137th of 246 defencemen

Neither team controls the puck when he is on

Robertson's line owns 48.8% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,028 for, 1,079 against, 132nd of 246 defencemen

Goals go both ways evenly when he is on

The Rangers score 48.9% of the 5v5 goals with Robertson out there.

45 for, 47 against, 128th of 246 defencemen

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Rangers create 4.32 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Robertson on.

121st of 246 defencemen

He is kept off the penalty kill

He draws 1:51 of penalty kill time a game, 98th among defencemen.

8.6% of his total ice time

He gets a normal share of the minutes

Robertson plays 17:24 a night, 163rd among defencemen.

1,253 minutes across 72 games

He rarely wins the puck back on his own

He takes the puck back 0.43 times an hour.

780th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

9 takeaways against 52 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.17 takeaways per giveaway

He throws himself in front of pucks more than almost anyone

He blocks 3.83 shots an hour of ice time.

260th in the league

He rarely puts a puck on net of his own

He puts 3.74 shots on goal an hour.

680th in the league

He almost never hands the puck to the other team

He gives it away 2.49 times an hour.

647th most giveaways an hour

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 1.82 penalty minutes an hour.

349th most penalty minutes an hour

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 5.12 checks an hour.

346th in the league

The points are not coming for him this season

Robertson produces 0.86 points an hour of ice time.

643rd in the league

He finishes plays rather than starting them

He sets up 0.57 assists an hour of ice time.

634th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.29 goals an hour of ice time.

559th in the league

The scoreboard is roughly even with him out there

He is -1 on the season.

499th in the league

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

29.2% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

63 attempts, 3 goals

He finds shooting lanes that most players cannot

40.3% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

87 of 216 attempts, 180th of 241 defencemen

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

68.1% of his attempts come from the left side.

147 left, 40 middle, 29 right

A lot of his shots miss the net entirely

61.2% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

79 of 129 unblocked, 155th of 241 defencemen

He shoots the puck far more than most players at his position

He fires 10.34 attempts an hour of ice time.

216 attempts in 1,253 minutes, 84th of 245 defencemen

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

25.0% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

54 attempts from inside the home plate, 85th of 241 defencemen

His game is played in the hardest part of the ice

25.0% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

54 of 216 attempts, 85th of 241 defencemen

He shoots more pucks over a season than almost anybody

Robertson has taken 216 shot attempts this season.

73 on goal, 50 missed, 87 blocked, 92nd of 241 defencemen

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 42.1 feet.

216 located attempts, 143rd of 241 defencemen

His long range shooting is about league average

49.1% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

106 long-range attempts, 136th of 241 defencemen

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Samuel Ersson has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Ducks this season.

6 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Samuel Ersson: 9 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

One opponent goes out of his way to run him

Luke Kunin has hit him 4 times, more than any other opponent.

hits absorbed, from play-by-play

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

His deadliest shot is the slap shot: 5.9% of them go in.

2 goals on 34 attempts

A remarkable share of his shots end up in the net

He converts 7.6% of the shots he puts on goal.

6 goals on 79 shots, 61st of 241 defencemen

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 42.8 feet out, and the longest went in from 62.

6 goals located by coordinate

He scores more than the chances he gets should produce

Robertson has 6 goals off 6.9 expected: 0.9 short of what the chances say.

79th of 241 defencemen

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 1.9% of his attempts.

1 goals on 54 close attempts, 130th of 221 defencemen

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