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Matt Beleskey

#39 · Left wing · New York Rangers

Born Jun 7, 1988 in Windsor, Ontario, CAN · 6'0", 207 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 112th overall in 2006 by ANA (round 4)

Compare with a similar player

The forwards closest to him in points in 2017-18. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Matt Moulson BUF · 0 P in 14 GP Tanner Glass CGY · 0 P in 16 GP Zac Dalpe CBJ · 0 P in 12 GP Andrew Mangiapane CGY · 0 P in 10 GP Kyle Criscuolo BUF · 0 P in 9 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.

01020302008-09: 0 points008-092009-10: 18 points1809-102010-11: 10 points1010-112011-12: 15 points1511-122012-13: 13 points1312-132013-14: 24 points2413-142014-15: 32 points3214-152015-16: 37 points3715-162016-17: 8 points816-172017-18: 0 points017-182018-19: 1 points118-19

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2008-09 ANA 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
2009-10 ANA 60 11 7 18 -10 35 123 94 0.30
2010-11 ANA 35 3 7 10 -10 36 58 64 0.29
2011-12 ANA 70 4 11 15 -2 72 75 104 0.21 $738K
2012-13 ANA 42 8 5 13 2 56 61 103 0.31 $738K
2013-14 ANA 55 9 15 24 8 64 112 132 0.44 $1.35M
2014-15 ANA 65 22 10 32 13 39 145 159 0.49 $1.35M
2015-16 BOS 80 15 22 37 6 65 168 260 0.46 $3.8M
2016-17 BOS 49 3 5 8 -10 47 79 98 0.16 $3.8M
2017-18 BOS 14 0 0 0 -8 17 17 27 0.00 $3.8M
2017-18 NYR 1 0 0 0 -1 4 0 7 0.00
2018-19 NYR 4 1 0 1 1 5 3 7 0.25 $3.8M
11 seasons Career 477 76 82 158 -11 440 841 1055 0.33

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2010-11 ANA 6 1 0 1 -1 4 8 9 0.17
2012-13 ANA 7 2 1 3 1 2 13 26 0.43
2013-14 ANA 5 2 2 4 0 8 13 24 0.80
2014-15 ANA 16 8 1 9 -4 2 45 63 0.56
2016-17 BOS 3 0 0 0 -2 4 3 7 0.00
5 seasons Playoffs 37 13 4 17 -6 20 82 129 0.46

2017-18 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
15 0 0 0 -9 21 17 34 0.00 0.0 10:58

Contract

$3.8MCap hit2017-18

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.

The contract

Who signed him to it, and when, are not on record. When it ends is not known.

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2018-19 to 2019-20 $3.8M
2016-17 to 2017-18 $3.8M
2015-16 to 2019-20 $3.8M
2013-14 to 2014-15 $1.35M
2012-13 to 2012-13 $738K
2011-12 to 2012-13 $738K

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 2017-18 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.

2017-18 analytics

Rating

-0.7Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
-0.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-1.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence-0.9Even-strength defence0.0Power play-0.2Penalty kill+0.0Penalties+0.0

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. He has played fewer than 20 games, too few to be ranked. 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.

-4-202462010-112012-132014-152016-172018-19Goals 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

50.0Corsi for %126 attempts for, 126 against
-3.9CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
50.2Expected goals for %5.7 expected for, 5.6 against
-2.3xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
51.7Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
10.0Goals for %1 for, 9 against
87.8PDO1.5% shooting + 86.4% saves
36Attempts 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 lineTeamGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Matt Beleskey · Riley Nash · Austin CzarnikBOS429:1859.359.01-2
Matt Beleskey · Sean Kuraly · Frank VatranoBOS513:4865.283.80-1
Matt Beleskey · Ryan Spooner · Frank VatranoBOS211:3755.647.30-0
Matt Beleskey · Vladislav Namestnikov · Pavel BuchnevichNYR19:5043.835.40-0

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
1.4Expected goalsfrom 31 unblocked attempts
-1.4Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 0.53 expected goals per 60 minutes14th
Shot quality 4.7% chance per attempt1st
Finishing -1.4 goals above expected37thOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 423 who played 300 minutes or more this season.

00.51Expected 1.4Goals 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 this season, 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 7, 2018 @ PHI L 0-5 0 0 0 -1 4 0 7 12:37
Nov 26, 2017 vs EDM L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 06:09
Nov 15, 2017 @ ANA L 2-4 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 12:58
Nov 11, 2017 vs TOR L 1-4 0 0 0 -1 5 2 5 11:11
Nov 10, 2017 @ TOR L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:58
Nov 8, 2017 @ NYR L 2-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 09:38
Nov 6, 2017 vs MIN W 5-3 0 0 0 -1 5 3 2 11:16
Nov 4, 2017 vs WSH L 2-3 0 0 0 -1 0 3 2 12:50
Nov 2, 2017 vs VGK W 2-1 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 10:06
Oct 21, 2017 vs BUF L 4-5 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 11:55
Oct 15, 2017 @ VGK L 1-3 0 0 0 -1 0 1 4 10:10
Oct 14, 2017 @ ARI W 6-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 09:36
Oct 11, 2017 @ COL L 3-6 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 11:19
Oct 9, 2017 vs COL L 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 3 3 12:38
Oct 5, 2017 vs NSH W 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 10:16