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Matt Murray

#30 · Goalie · Free agent, last with the Seattle Kraken

Born May 25, 1994 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, CAN · 6'5", 220 lb · Catches left · Drafted 83rd overall in 2012 by PIT (round 3)

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Compare with a similar player

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

Carey Price MTL · 49 GP, 0.900 Semyon Varlamov COL · 51 GP, 0.920 Antti Raanta ARI · 47 GP, 0.930 Marc-Andre Fleury VGK · 46 GP, 0.927 Ben Bishop DAL · 53 GP, 0.916

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.

010203040502015-16: 13 games1315-162016-17: 49 games4916-172017-18: 49 games4917-182018-19: 50 games5018-192019-20: 38 games3819-202020-21: 27 games2720-212021-22: 20 games2021-222022-23: 26 games2622-232024-25: 2 games224-252025-26: 5 games525-26

Games played by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save % Cap hit
2015-16 PIT 13 9211 355 330 25 2.00 0.930 $628K
2016-17 PIT 49 321044 1450 1339 111 2.41 0.923 $628K
2017-18 PIT 49 271631 1423 1290 133 2.92 0.907 $3.75M
2018-19 PIT 50 291464 1594 1465 129 2.69 0.919 $3.75M
2019-20 PIT 38 201151 1055 948 107 2.87 0.899 $3.75M
2020-21 OTT 27 101312 738 659 79 3.38 0.893 $6.25M
2021-22 OTT 20 51221 640 580 60 3.05 0.906 $6.25M
2022-23 TOR 26 14821 761 687 74 3.01 0.903 $6.25M
2024-25 TOR 2 1100 58 51 7 3.54 0.879 $875K
2025-26 SEA 5 0210 102 94 8 2.21 0.922 $1M
10 seasons Career 279 147892515 8176 7443 733 2.79 0.910

Playoffs

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

Season Team GP WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
2015-16 PIT 21 15601 575 531 44 2.08 0.923
2016-17 PIT 11 7303 303 284 19 1.70 0.937
2017-18 PIT 12 6602 314 285 29 2.43 0.908
2018-19 PIT 4 0400 127 115 12 3.02 0.906
2019-20 PIT 3 1200 93 85 8 2.50 0.914
2024-25 TOR 1 0000 7 6 1 4.41 0.857
6 seasons Playoffs 52 292106 1419 1306 113 2.19 0.920

2017-18 season totals

GP Starts WLOTLSO Shots against Saves Goals against GAA Save %
49 45 271631 1423 1290 133 2.92 0.907

Contract

$3.75MCap hitends in 2020
$563KCap dollars per goal above replacement6.7 goals above replacement
$2.1MWorth at the going ratewhat teams paid for a season like his
-$1.6MValueworth 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. Value is coloured by where it ranks among the 56 ranked goalies whose contract is known. How value is worked out.

The contract

Signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins on Oct 20, 2016, as an extension of the contract he was on: 3 years and $11.25M, beginning in 2017-18. It runs through 2019-20, with 2 seasons left after this one.

Season Cap hit Base salary Signing bonus Performance bonuses Paid in all Clause
2017-18 $3.75M $3.75M $0 $3.75M
2018-19 $3.75M $3.75M $0 $3.75M
2019-20 $3.75M $3.75M $0 $3.75M

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
2025-26 to 2025-26 $1M
Jul 1, 2024 Toronto Maple Leafs New contract 2024-25 to 2024-25 1 $875K $875K
Oct 9, 2020 Ottawa Senators New contract 2020-21 to 2023-24 4 $25M $6.25M
Oct 20, 2016 Pittsburgh Penguins Extension 2017-18 to 2019-20 3 $11.25M $3.75M
Sep 8, 2013 Pittsburgh Penguins Entry-level 2014-15 to 2016-17 signed for 2013-14, slid 3 $2.775M $628K

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

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

+6.7Goals above replacement35th of 56 goalies
+1.1Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-6.3Goals above averagehis goals saved above expected

Each number is coloured by where it ranks among the 56 ranked goalies: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. Goals above average is coloured as it is under Shots faced below, where it is taken per 60 minutes.

The goals he saved for his team, compared with a spare-part goalie facing the same shots. A goalie's season is about one-third the goalie and two-thirds chance, so read one year lightly. 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.

-100102030402015-162017-182019-202021-222024-25Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

Shots faced

Expected goals adds up how likely each shot he faced was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. A goalie who lets in fewer than that has saved goals above expected. Only shots taken while he was in net count, and the league's goalies as a whole come out at zero. 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. What these numbers mean

-6.3Goals saved above expectedexpected goals minus goals against
126.7Expected goals againstfrom 1,906 unblocked attempts
133Goals againstwhile he was in net
0.907Save %0.911 expected from his shots

Goals saved above expected, taken per 60 minutes, and save % are coloured by where they rank among the 58 goalies who played enough to be ranked: green is in the top fifth and red the bottom fifth, with paler shades in between and amber for the middle. Hover over a tile for its percentile. The two goals against tiles are left plain, since they follow how much he played.

Goals saved -0.14 above expected per 60 minutes34th
Shot difficulty 6.6% chance per attempt faced88thA higher bar means his team gives up more dangerous shots.

Each bar shows the share of goalies he is ahead of, among the 58 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest this season.

050100Game 10Game 20Game 30Game 40Allowed 133Expected 126.7

The goals he was expected to let in and the goals he did, as the season went on. When the allowed line runs below the expected line, he is saving more than his shots were worth.

Where he was shot at

Every unblocked attempt he faced this season, with his net on the right. Darker red means more attempts from that spot, and each dot is a goal. "Show every shot" switches to a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. Click a goal for its details.

Game log

Date Opponent Result Decision Shots against Saves Goals against Save % TOI
Apr 5, 2018 @ CBJ W 5-4 (OT) W 30 26 4 0.867 60:20
Apr 1, 2018 vs WSH L 1-3 L 34 31 3 0.912 59:31
Mar 31, 2018 vs MTL W 5-2 W 26 24 2 0.923 60:00
Mar 29, 2018 @ NJD W 4-3 (OT) W 31 28 3 0.903 60:19
Mar 27, 2018 @ DET L 2-5 L 25 21 4 0.840 57:32
Mar 25, 2018 vs PHI W 5-4 (OT) W 45 41 4 0.911 61:46
Mar 23, 2018 vs NJD L 3-4 (OT) OTL 34 30 4 0.882 60:24
Mar 20, 2018 @ NYI L 1-4 L 39 36 3 0.923 59:26
Feb 24, 2018 @ FLA L 5-6 L 14 12 2 0.857 30:27
Feb 23, 2018 @ CAR W 6-1 W 28 27 1 0.964 60:00
Feb 17, 2018 vs TOR W 5-3 W 32 29 3 0.906 60:00
Feb 15, 2018 vs LAK W 3-1 W 35 34 1 0.971 60:00
Feb 13, 2018 vs OTT W 6-3 W 33 30 3 0.909 60:00
Feb 11, 2018 @ STL W 4-1 W 34 33 1 0.971 59:57
Feb 9, 2018 @ DAL L 3-4 (SO) OTL 36 33 3 0.917 63:53
Feb 6, 2018 vs VGK W 5-4 W 25 21 4 0.840 60:00
Feb 2, 2018 vs WSH W 7-4 W 33 29 4 0.879 60:00
Jan 30, 2018 vs SJS W 5-2 W 42 40 2 0.952 60:00
Jan 7, 2018 vs BOS W 6-5 (OT) W 6 6 0 1.000 25:35
Jan 4, 2018 vs CAR L 0-4 L 33 29 4 0.879 60:00
Jan 2, 2018 @ PHI W 5-1 11 11 0 1.000 25:26
Dec 31, 2017 @ DET L 1-4 L 23 19 4 0.826 60:00
Dec 27, 2017 vs CBJ W 5-4 (SO) W 33 29 4 0.879 65:00
Dec 23, 2017 vs ANA L 0-4 L 13 10 3 0.769 23:42
Dec 21, 2017 vs CBJ W 3-2 (SO) W 32 30 2 0.938 65:00
Dec 18, 2017 @ COL L 2-4 L 36 33 3 0.917 58:24
Dec 16, 2017 @ ARI W 4-2 W 17 15 2 0.882 60:00
Dec 14, 2017 @ VGK L 1-2 L 26 24 2 0.923 58:11
Nov 27, 2017 vs PHI W 5-4 (OT) 22 20 2 0.909 35:39
Nov 24, 2017 @ BOS L 3-4 L 33 29 4 0.879 58:24
Nov 22, 2017 vs VAN L 2-5 L 36 32 4 0.889 58:51
Nov 18, 2017 vs CHI L 1-2 L 38 36 2 0.947 58:27
Nov 16, 2017 @ OTT W 3-1 W 22 21 1 0.955 59:56
Nov 14, 2017 vs BUF W 5-4 (OT) W 32 28 4 0.875 59:53
Nov 10, 2017 @ WSH L 1-4 L 30 27 3 0.900 59:38
Nov 7, 2017 vs ARI W 3-1 W 25 24 1 0.960 59:49
Nov 4, 2017 @ VAN L 2-4 L 21 17 4 0.810 56:51
Nov 1, 2017 @ EDM W 3-2 W 37 35 2 0.946 60:00
Oct 29, 2017 @ WPG L 1-7 L 9 5 4 0.556 18:07
Oct 28, 2017 @ MIN L 1-2 L 29 27 2 0.931 59:14
Oct 26, 2017 vs WPG W 2-1 (OT) W 31 30 1 0.968 61:07
Oct 24, 2017 vs EDM W 2-1 (OT) W 30 29 1 0.967 60:37
Oct 20, 2017 @ FLA W 4-3 W 31 28 3 0.903 59:46
Oct 17, 2017 @ NYR W 5-4 (OT) W 32 28 4 0.875 59:47
Oct 14, 2017 vs FLA W 4-3 W 46 43 3 0.935 60:00
Oct 11, 2017 @ WSH W 3-2 W 22 20 2 0.909 60:00
Oct 7, 2017 vs NSH W 4-0 W, SO 26 26 0 1.000 60:00
Oct 5, 2017 @ CHI L 1-10 31 25 6 0.806 50:44
Oct 4, 2017 vs STL L 4-5 (OT) OTL 34 29 5 0.853 61:15