Compare players, 2025-26 season

At a glance

Simon Benoit Zach Metsa

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the regulars at his position: forwards against forwards, defencemen against defencemen. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number. The lines are each player's points adding up, game by game.

Where they shot from

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The numbers

Simon Benoit D, PHI		2025-26	Zach Metsa D, BUF
	73	Games played	43
	0	Goals	2
	6	Assists	4
	6	Points	6
	0.08	Points per game	0.14
	-22	Plus/minus	16
	60	Shots	24
	0.0	Shooting %	8.3
	194	Hits	5
	41	Penalty minutes	8
	17:18	Average ice time	10:58
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	40.6	Corsi for %	46.9
	-6.6	CF% relative to team	-2.7
	40.3	Fenwick for %	46.7
	40.7	Expected goals for %	48.7
	-6.2	xGF% relative to team	-2.6
	35.3	Goals for %	75.0
	98.6	PDO	108.8
	136	Shot attempts taken	53
Expected goals, all situations
	3.0	Expected goals	1.3
	0.14	Expected goals per 60	0.16
	3.1%	Chance per attempt	3.6%
	-3.0	Goals above expected	+0.7
Rating, in goals
	-5.1	Goals above replacement	+0.4
	-0.9	Wins above replacement	+0.1
	-6.4	Even-strength offence	-1.9
	-1.5	Even-strength defence	+0.6
	0.0	Power play	0.0
	-0.6	Penalty kill	+0.2
	-0.7	Penalties	+0.0
Contract
	$1.35M	Cap hit	$775K
	$225K	Cap dollars per point	$129K
	-$3.5M	Worth at the going rate	$1.1M
	-$4.9M	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$312K

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two. What the advanced numbers mean