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Matt Roy

Position	Right Defense	Current Team	Washington Capitals
Shoots	Right	Current Contract	6 years ($5.8M CapHit)
Height	6'2"	Expires	2029-30
Weight (lbs)	220	Expiry Age (Jun 30)	35
Age (DOB)	31 (Mar 1, 1995)	Expiry Status	UFA
Drafted	2015, Round 7, Overall 194 (LAK)

Date	Team	Transaction
Feb 2, 2026	Washington Capitals	Activated from IR
Jan 31, 2026	Washington Capitals	Placed on IR
Nov 6, 2024	Washington Capitals	Activated from IR
Oct 28, 2024	Washington Capitals	Placed on IR
Jul 1, 2024	Washington Capitals	Signed 6 years @ $5.750M AAV starting in 2024-25
Mar 21, 2021	Los Angeles Kings	Signed 3 years @ $3.150M AAV starting in 2021-22
Jul 15, 2019	Los Angeles Kings	Signed 2 years @ $700K AAV starting in 2019-20
Mar 27, 2017	Los Angeles Kings	Signed to an entry level contract.

Status History Coming Soon

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About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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Read Introducing Player Archetypes on HockeyAnalysis.com for more details on archetype calculations.

Core Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	Producer	Playmaker	Shooter	Sniper	Rebound	Rush	Skating	Defend
2018-19	LAK	25	0.05	-0.21	0.33	1.28	-	-1.03	-	0.17
2019-20	LAK	70	-0.71	-0.72	-0.51	-0.39	-	-0.27	-	0.77
2020-21	LAK	44	-0.57	-0.53	-0.35	0.23	-	0.24	-	1.32
2021-22	LAK	67	-0.33	-0.14	-0.60	-0.98	-	0.17	-0.24	1.65
2022-23	LAK	82	-0.32	-0.49	-0.03	0.14	-	0.76	-0.17	-0.75
2023-24	LAK	81	-0.45	-0.49	-0.29	-0.47	-	-0.05	-0.25	0.28
2024-25	WSH	69	0.73	1.30	-0.45	-0.56	-	-0.68	0.03	-0.39
2025-26	WSH	79	-0.56	-0.35	-0.69	-0.60	-	0.25	-0.27	-0.09

Situational and Secondary Archetypes

Season	Team(s)	GP	5v5 TOI	5v4 TOI	4v5 TOI	Possession	Drive	Suppress	Faceoffs
2018-19	LAK	25	-0.91	-1.57	-0.08	-0.35	1.09	2.11	-
2019-20	LAK	70	-0.17	-1.72	-0.40	2.02	1.21	-1.82	-
2020-21	LAK	44	0.02	-1.24	0.08	-1.61	-0.65	1.50	-
2021-22	LAK	67	0.45	-0.87	0.37	0.84	0.92	-0.40	-
2022-23	LAK	82	-0.08	-1.37	0.10	0.32	1.11	0.62	-
2023-24	LAK	81	0.59	-1.32	0.96	0.47	1.09	0.36	-
2024-25	WSH	69	0.37	-1.36	0.08	-1.00	-0.90	0.55	-
2025-26	WSH	79	0.62	-1.40	0.84	0.33	0.20	-0.32	-

About Archetypes

Player archetypes are a look at a players strengths and weaknesses in his game when compared to other players around the leeague. Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary

Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).

Read Introducing Player Archetypes on HockeyAnalysis.com for more details on archetype calculations.

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

5v5 Individual Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	G/60	A/60	Pts/60	xG/60	GAE/60	Sh%	xSh%	Sh%AE	%SA Rush	%SA Reb.
2018-19	LAK	25	374:46	0.32	0.64	0.96	0.19	0.13	6.25	3.80	2.45	0.00	3.85
2019-20	LAK	70	1114:34	0.11	0.54	0.65	0.16	-0.05	1.96	2.87	-0.91	0.68	2.70
2020-21	LAK	44	704:03	0.17	0.43	0.60	0.15	0.02	3.92	3.51	0.41	1.27	1.27
2021-22	LAK	67	1138:55	0.11	0.68	0.79	0.28	-0.18	1.60	4.26	-2.66	1.18	4.71
2022-23	LAK	82	1280:15	0.23	0.61	0.84	0.23	0.01	4.35	4.23	0.12	1.83	2.44
2023-24	LAK	81	1377:20	0.22	0.61	0.83	0.26	-0.04	4.03	4.85	-0.82	1.04	3.65
2024-25	WSH	69	1181:46	0.15	0.96	1.12	0.21	-0.05	3.80	5.15	-1.35	0.00	1.45
2025-26	WSH	79	1350:16	0.09	0.67	0.76	0.15	-0.06	2.38	3.90	-1.52	0.77	0.00

5v5 On Ice Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAF/60	GF/60	xGF/60	SAA/60	GA/60	xGA/60	GF%	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
2018-19	LAK	25	374:46	41.79	3.04	2.37	50.91	3.52	3.14	46.34	43.03	0.06	0.67	-5.34
2019-20	LAK	70	1114:34	48.34	2.58	2.66	36.55	1.99	2.16	56.47	55.16	0.18	-0.43	6.23
2020-21	LAK	44	704:03	36.65	1.87	2.02	44.23	2.22	2.61	45.83	43.65	-0.20	0.16	-3.94
2021-22	LAK	67	1138:55	48.68	2.42	2.92	37.09	1.74	2.43	58.23	54.56	0.11	-0.03	1.19
2022-23	LAK	82	1280:15	46.77	2.81	2.89	39.09	2.67	2.36	51.28	55.06	0.24	-0.02	2.37
2023-24	LAK	81	1377:20	48.35	2.79	2.70	38.55	2.13	2.12	56.64	55.95	0.19	-0.07	2.63
2024-25	WSH	69	1181:46	38.99	2.79	2.39	40.41	2.49	2.45	52.88	49.41	-0.23	-0.02	-2.08
2025-26	WSH	79	1350:16	41.37	2.44	2.54	39.64	2.22	2.68	52.38	48.62	-0.29	-0.03	-2.40

NHL Edge Stats

		Skating				Shooting					Zone Time
Season	GP	Top Speed	Bursts>20/mi	Avg. Speed	ES Avg. Speed	Top Speed	Avg. Speed	%Long Range	%Mid Range	%High Danger	ES DZ%	ES NZ%	ES OZ%
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Legend

Percentile 0-25

Percentile 25-50

Percentile 50-75

Percentile 75-100

Forwards are compared with forwards and Defensemen are are compared with Defensemen.

5v5 Defense Pairs

Season

Season	Teammate	Team	TOI	GF/60	GA/60	GF%	xGF/60	xGA/60	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
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Glossary

Type	Statistic	Definition
Individual	G/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes.
Individual	A/60	Assists per 60 minutes.
Individual	Pts/60	Points per 60 minutes.
Individual	xG/60	Expected Goals per 60 minutes.
Individual	GAE/60	Goals Above Expected (G/60 - xG/60).
Individual	Sh%	Shooting Percentage.
Individual	xSh%	Expected Shooting Percentage.
Individual	Sh%AE	Shooting percentage above expected (Sh% - xSh%).
Individual	%SA Rush	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be on the rush.
Individual	%SA Reb.	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be from rebounds.
On Ice	SAF/60	Shot Attempts For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	GF/60	Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	xGF/60	Expected Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	SAA/60	Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GA/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	xGA/60	Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GF%	Goals For Percentage = Goals For / (Goals For + Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF%	Expected Goals For Percentage = Expected Goals For / (Expected Goals For + Expected Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF Rel	xGF/60 when On Ice - xGF/60 when not On Ice.
On Ice	xGA Rel	xGA/60 when On Ice - xGA/60 when not On Ice (lower is better).
On Ice	xGF% Rel	xGF% when On Ice - xGF% when not On Ice.

Individual and On-Ice stats from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16). NHL Edge Stats from edge.nhl.com (starting in 2021-22). Edge statistic definitions can be found at the Edge Stats Glossary.

News and Opinions

Rink Roundtable: Closing the Book on 2025-26 at Japers Rink (Mon Apr 20, 2026)
Tom Wilson records career high 21 penalty minutes, helps spark Capitals to 7-4 victory after Brandon Tanev boards Matt Roy at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Fri Mar 27, 2026)
Cole Hutson practices with the Capitals for the first time, skates on a defense pair with Matt Roy at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Tue Mar 17, 2026)
Bruins beat Caps 3-2 in soul-destroying shootout at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Sat Mar 14, 2026)
Matt Roy to serve as an alternate captain for Capitals against Flyers: ‘Guys really respect him a lot with how he plays, how he leads by example’ at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Wed Mar 11, 2026)
Matt Roy and Hendrix Lapierre miss morning skate, Capitals unsure they’ll have enough healthy forwards for Maple Leafs game at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Thu Dec 18, 2025)
Jakob Chychrun and Matt Roy have combined to form a dominant defense pairing this season: ‘They’ve been very, very effective right from jump street’ at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Thu Nov 27, 2025)
Matt Roy sports massively swollen lip after taking Joel Armia shot to the face: ‘I hope you can’t notice’ at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Tue Nov 18, 2025)
Matt Roy and Declan Chisholm fully participate in Capitals practice after respective injury scares at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Tue Oct 7, 2025)
Matt Roy and Dylan McIlrath miss Capitals practice after suffering injuries in preseason finale against Blue Jackets at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Mon Oct 6, 2025)
Matt Roy and Dylan McIlrath suffer injuries in final preseason game that could keep them out ‘maybe a week, two weeks’ at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Sat Oct 4, 2025)
Martin Fehervary, Matt Roy, and Justin Sourdif begin first day of Capitals Training Camp in no-contact jerseys at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Thu Sep 18, 2025)
What if Matt Roy never left the Los Angeles Kings in free agency? at Rink Royalty (Thu Jul 31, 2025)
Logan Thompson and Matt Roy are first Capitals to join informal skates ahead of training camp at Russian Machine Never Breaks (Wed Jul 30, 2025)
Matt Roy quietly proved his worth in first season with Capitals at Stars and Sticks (Sun May 25, 2025)

Current Contract

Matt Roy signed a $34,500,000 6-year contract with the Washington Capitals and General Manager Brian MacLellan on July 1, 2024 with an AAV of $5,750,000. This contract will start in 2024-25 and end after the 2029-30 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 6.53% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2024-25	29	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$3,000,000	$4,000,000	$7,000,000	$7,000,000	UFA
2025-26	30	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$3,000,000	$3,750,000	$6,750,000	$6,750,000	UFA
2026-27	31	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$2,000,000	$4,000,000	$6,000,000	$6,000,000	UFA
2027-28	32	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$2,000,000	$3,500,000	$5,500,000	$5,500,000	UFA
2028-29	33	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$2,000,000	$2,750,000	$4,750,000	$4,750,000	UFA
2029-30	34	M-NTC	$5,750,000	$5,750,000	-	$2,000,000	$2,500,000	$4,500,000	$4,500,000	UFA
Total					-	$14,000,000	$20,500,000	$34,500,000	$34,500,000

Signed: July 1, 2024

Team: Washington Capitals

GM: Brian MacLellan

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 6.53

Clause: Player can submit a 15 team no trade list for 2024-25 and 2025-26 and then a 10 team no trade list for 2026-27 to 2029-30.

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Matt Roy signed a $9,450,000 3-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings and General Manager Rob Blake on March 21, 2021 with an AAV of $3,150,000. This contract will start in 2021-22 and end after the 2023-24 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 3.87% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2021-22	26	$3,150,000	$3,150,000	-	-	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	RFA-arb
2022-23	27	$3,150,000	$3,150,000	-	-	$3,250,000	$3,250,000	$3,250,000	UFA
2023-24	28	$3,150,000	$3,150,000	-	-	$4,200,000	$4,200,000	$4,200,000	UFA
Total				-	-	$9,450,000	$9,450,000	$9,450,000

Signed: Mar 21, 2021

Team: Los Angeles Kings

GM: Rob Blake

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 3.87

Matt Roy signed a $1,400,000 2-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings and General Manager Rob Blake on July 15, 2019 with an AAV of $700,000. This contract will start in 2019-20 and end after the 2020-21 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.86% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2019-20	24	$700,000	$700,000	-	-	$700,000	$700,000	$200,000	RFA-arb
2020-21	25	$700,000	$700,000	-	-	$700,000	$700,000	$700,000	RFA-arb
Total				-	-	$1,400,000	$1,400,000	$900,000

Signed: July 15, 2019

Team: Los Angeles Kings

GM: Rob Blake

Exp. Status: RFA-arb

Cap %: 0.86

Note: Guaranteed minimum salary in 2019-20 is $300,000.

Matt Roy signed a $1,667,500 2-year contract with the Los Angeles Kings and General Manager Dean Lombardi on March 27, 2017 with an AAV of $833,750. This contract will start in 2017-18 and end after the 2018-19 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.11% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2017-18	22	$833,750	$925,000	$182,500	$92,500	$650,000	$742,500	$70,000	ELC
2018-19	23	$833,750	$925,000	-	$92,500	$832,500	$925,000	$70,000	ELC
Total				$182,500	$185,000	$1,482,500	$1,667,500	$140,000

Signed: Mar 27, 2017

Team: Los Angeles Kings

GM: Dean Lombardi

Exp. Status: RFA-arb

Career Statistics

			Regular Season									Playoffs
Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G
2009-10	T1EBHL	Victory Honda Bantam Major AAA	30	1	11	12		22
2010-11	T1EHL U16	Victory Honda U16	35	3	10	13		24
2011-12	T1EHL	Det. V. Honda U18	37	1	8	9		28				7	2		2		5
2012-13	USHL	Indiana	10	1	2	3	-2	4	13	770.0
2012-13	T1EHL	Det. V. Honda U18	41	12	21	33		62				4		2	2		4
2013-14	USHL	Indiana	24	4	5	9	+11	21	26	1,540.0		12	2	4	6	+1	4	25	800.0
2014-15	WCHA	Michigan Tech	36	0	9	9		22
2015-16	NCAA	Michigan Tech	37	7	13	20	+24	37
2015-16	WCHA	Michigan Tech	37	7	13	20	+24	27	79
2016-17	NCAA	Michigan Tech	42	5	21	26	+6	74
2016-17	AHL	Ontario Reign	8	0	1	1	+1	7				2				-1	2
2017-18	AHL	Ontario Reign	49	4	13	17	+10	23				4	1	1	2	+3
2018-19	AHL	Ontario Reign	45	8	21	29	-21	17
2018-19	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	25	2	4	6	-1	8	34	5.9	17:08
2019-20	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	70	4	14	18	+16	10	112	3.6	18:07
2020-21	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	44	2	8	10		8	57	3.5	19:15
2020-21	WC	USA	8	0	1	1		4
2021-22	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	67	2	19	21	+23	28	153	1.3	20:59	7		1	1	-3		14	0.0	20:54
2022-23	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	82	9	17	26	+8	22	135	6.7	18:47	6	1	2	3	+4		8	12.5	21:36
2023-24	NHL	Los Angeles Kings	81	5	20	25	+21	42	135	3.7	20:54	5		2	2	+1	2	5	0.0	19:30
2024-25	NHL	Washington Capitals	69	3	21	24	+18	25	84	3.6	19:53	10		2	2	-1	2	7	0.0	23:52
2025-26	NHL	Washington Capitals	79	2	17	19	+18	12	94	2.1	20:37
NHL Career			517	29	120	149	+103	155	804	3.6	19:42	28	1	7	8	+1	4	34	2.9	21:52