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Quinton Byfield

#55 · Right wing · Los Angeles Kings

Born Aug 19, 2002 in Newmarket, Ontario, CAN (age 24) · 6'5", 230 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 2nd overall in 2020 by LAK (round 1)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2021-22. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Karson Kuhlman SEA · 10 P in 44 GP Joe Thornton FLA · 10 P in 34 GP Vinni Lettieri ANA · 10 P in 31 GP Adam Ruzicka CGY · 10 P in 28 GP Christian Fischer ARI · 10 P in 53 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

020402020-21: 1 points120-212021-22: 10 points1021-222022-23: 22 points2222-232023-24: 55 points5523-242024-25: 54 points5424-252025-26: 49 points4925-262026-27: 2 points226-27

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2020-21 LAK 6 0 1 1 1 2 9 3 0.17 $925K
2021-22 LAK 40 5 5 10 -7 20 39 20 0.25 $894K
2022-23 LAK 53 3 19 22 13 30 74 53 0.42 $894K
2023-24 LAK 80 20 35 55 19 42 161 66 0.69 $894K
2024-25 LAK 81 23 31 54 16 46 157 80 0.67 $6.25M
2025-26 LAK 79 24 25 49 -2 46 180 66 0.62 $6.25M
2026-27 LAK 4 1 1 2 -4 0 10 1 0.50 $6.25M
7 seasons Career 343 76 117 193 36 186 630 289 0.56

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2021-22 LAK 2 0 0 0 -2 4 1 0 0.00
2022-23 LAK 6 1 3 4 -5 2 8 15 0.67
2023-24 LAK 5 0 4 4 4 4 8 11 0.80
2024-25 LAK 6 3 1 4 -7 2 18 14 0.67
2025-26 LAK 4 0 2 2 -4 6 17 8 0.50
5 seasons Playoffs 23 4 10 14 -14 18 52 48 0.61

2021-22 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
40 5 5 10 -7 20 39 20 0.25 12.8 12:09

Contract

$894KCap hitends in 2024, then RFA
$89KCap dollars per point10 points in 40 games
$170KWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$724KValueworth minus cap hit; below zero is overpaid

His cap hit for the whole season, set against what he did in the regular season. Lower is better value. In a season still being played the cost per point starts high and falls as the games add up. He rated at or below a spare-part player, so there is no cost per goal to show. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 716 ranked skaters whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the Los Angeles Kings on Oct 16, 2020, as an entry-level contract: 3 years and $10.725M, beginning in 2021-22. It runs through 2023-24, with 2 seasons left after this one, and he is then a restricted free agent.

Season Cap hit Base salary Signing bonus Performance bonuses Paid in all Clause
2021-22 $894K $833K $93K $2.65M $925K
2022-23 $894K $833K $93K $2.65M $925K
2023-24 $894K $833K $0 $2.65M $833K

Each season of the contract, with this one marked. The cap hit is the same every year; what he is paid is not. The pay is as written when the contract was recorded in October 2024, so a later change, such as the rise in the lowest salary for 2026-27, is not shown.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
Jul 15, 2024 Los Angeles Kings New contract 2024-25 to 2028-29 5 $31.25M $6.25M
Oct 16, 2020 Los Angeles Kings Entry-level 2021-22 to 2023-24 signed for 2020-21, slid 3 $10.725M $894K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2021-22 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2021-22 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.7Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.7Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.1Even-strength defence-0.2Power play-0.1Penalty kill+0.0Penalties-0.3

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. A playoff run is too short to rank anyone on. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-505102020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-27Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

39.3Corsi for %11 attempts for, 17 against
-8.5CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
22.3Expected goals for %0.2 expected for, 0.9 against
-29.5xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
33.3Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 1 against
91.7PDO0.0% shooting + 91.7% saves
5Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Brendan Lemieux · Arthur Kaliyev · Quinton Byfield29:1925.014.20-1
Alex Iafallo · Arthur Kaliyev · Quinton Byfield10:2266.70.00-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.2Expected goalsfrom 3 unblocked attempts
-0.2Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.63 expected goals per 60 minutes21st
Shot quality 5.4% chance per attempt2nd
Finishing -0.2 goals above expected55thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 89 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest in these playoffs.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.2Goals 0

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took in these playoffs, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 28, 2022 @ VAN L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:31
Apr 27, 2022 @ SEA W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 13:04
Apr 23, 2022 vs ANA W 4-2 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 09:53
Apr 21, 2022 vs CHI W 4-1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:27
Apr 13, 2022 @ COL L 3-9 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 13:19
Apr 12, 2022 @ CHI W 5-2 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 10:43
Apr 10, 2022 @ MIN L 3-6 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:50
Apr 7, 2022 vs EDM L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 09:59
Apr 4, 2022 vs CGY L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11:18
Apr 2, 2022 @ WPG W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10:19
Mar 31, 2022 @ CGY W 3-2 (SO) 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 13:11
Mar 30, 2022 @ EDM L 3-4 (SO) 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 14:09
Mar 28, 2022 vs SEA L 1-6 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 15:39
Mar 26, 2022 vs SEA W 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 1 16:04
Mar 24, 2022 vs CHI L 3-4 (SO) 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13:52
Mar 22, 2022 vs NSH W 6-1 2 1 3 2 0 2 0 15:15
Mar 19, 2022 @ VGK L 1-5 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 13:04
Mar 17, 2022 vs SJS W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 13:38
Mar 15, 2022 vs COL L 0-3 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 14:15
Mar 13, 2022 vs FLA W 3-2 (SO) 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 11:21
Mar 12, 2022 @ SJS L 0-5 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 14:07
Mar 10, 2022 vs SJS L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 09:53
Mar 7, 2022 @ BOS W 3-2 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:38
Mar 6, 2022 @ BUF W 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:57
Mar 4, 2022 @ CBJ W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 14:58
Mar 2, 2022 @ DAL L 3-4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 09:00
Feb 28, 2022 vs BOS L 0-7 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 12:49
Feb 26, 2022 vs NYI W 5-2 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 09:39
Feb 25, 2022 @ ANA W 4-1 0 1 1 1 0 2 0 10:54
Feb 23, 2022 @ ARI W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:48
Feb 19, 2022 @ ARI W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:22
Feb 18, 2022 @ VGK W 4-3 (OT) 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 12:58
Feb 15, 2022 vs EDM L 2-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 08:18
Feb 2, 2022 @ DET W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 10:57
Jan 30, 2022 @ PIT W 4-3 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 11:00
Jan 29, 2022 @ PHI L 3-4 (OT) 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11:46
Jan 27, 2022 @ NYI W 3-2 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 14:11
Jan 24, 2022 @ NYR L 2-3 (SO) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 08:32
Jan 23, 2022 @ NJD W 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 09:38
Jan 20, 2022 vs COL L 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 15:00