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Toronto Maple Leafs

Matt Benning

#33Defenseman

2025-26 regular season
1
GP
0
G
0
A
0
P
0
SOG
12:26
TOI/GP

D · TOR · NHL id 8476988

Matt Benning has played 1 game for the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 0 assists (0 points) on 0 shots while averaging 12:26 a night (12:21 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 0:05 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 65% of his 5v5 minutes with Simon Benoit and 34% with Nick Robertson in his only game so far, and the Maple Leafs have controlled 39% of shot attempts with Benning on the ice (0-0 in goals, 0% offensive-zone starts). In the Maple Leafs' most recent game against NYI he was on D3 with Simon Benoit and off the power play.

Right now

From the Jan 3 game vs NYI, detected from shift data

Pair
D3
Simon Benoit
Power play
No PP unit
Penalty kill
No PK unit
Last 1: D3

Deployment timeline

2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes

Usage: 1 games, 12:26 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 0 line changes.

PPLine30m3m7m10m13mJan 3
  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • 5-game average
  • Did not play
  • ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
1 games shown, 12:26 average. Line and PP unit come from where the player's ice time ranks among his teammates that night.

NHL EDGE tracking

2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position

Source: NHL EDGE

Only 1 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.

Top speed29th2921.1 mph
Bursts 20+ mph7th81
Hardest shot6th772.2 mph
Offensive-zone time53rd5441.6%
Distance skated1st11.8 mi
High-danger SOG1st00
Percentile among position peers│ tick = 3-season weighted

Season-level NHL EDGE puck and player tracking, refreshed nightly. The percentile is the league rank among skaters this season; the label at the right is the raw value.

Shot map

2025-26 · 1 attempts, 0 on goal, 0 goals · dots are equal size until the xG model lands

Shot map, OPP at TOR: 1 attempts, 0 on goal, 0 goals, 0.00 expected goals; best chance Matt Benning at 0.00 xG.

  • Even strength
  • Power play
  • Penalty kill
  • Goal
  • Shot on goal
  • Missed
  • Blocked
Every attempt (goals, shots, misses and blocks), attacking toward the right (or the top on phones).

Shooting luck

2025-26 · goals versus shots until the expected-goals model fills in

Shooting %—
0 goals on 0 shots
Career shooting %3.3%
430 shots in Edgehalla's event data
Goals vs shots, running
Shots (left) and goals (right), 1 games

A shooting percentage well above the player's own baseline usually comes back down; the Puck-Luck Band replaces this view once shot quality (xG) is available.

Player analytics

Compare with another player →

2025-26 regular season. Rank is among all qualified players; the bar is his percentile among defencemen. Each stat links to its explainer.

Fantasy box score

Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)

Transition, turnovers & faceoffs

Usage

Special teams & discipline

Luck & trend

NHL EDGE tracking

Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).

Beyond the box score

2023-24 regular season · 14 of 14 games through the sequence engine

MethodLeaders
−0.048
Season net
−0.17xG

5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.

MethodLeaders
Per 60
0.00
Attempts
0
0.000

5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.

MethodLeaders
Season
−0.97G
Per 60
−0.224
Drawn / taken
2 / 7minors

MethodLeaders
32.0%
36.0%
30.7%
Transition CF/60
5.4
Turnovers won/60
15.2
Turnovers lost/60
17.2

5-on-5 while he is on the ice.

Role changes

Notable promotions, demotions and ice-time swings from Line Watch

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Linemates

2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Benning

TeammatePosGPShareCF% togetherGF% togetherCF% Benning apartCF% mate apart
Simon BenoitD18:0365%50.0%— (0-0)22.2% 4:1850.0% 6:56
Nick RobertsonLW14:1234%25.0%— (0-0)42.1% 8:0978.6% 6:12
Easton CowanRW13:5732%50.0%— (0-0)36.8% 8:2481.3% 8:01
Nicolas RoyC13:4831%25.0%— (0-0)42.1% 8:3376.9% 6:38
Scott LaughtonLW13:1026%50.0%— (0-0)35.3% 9:1144.4% 9:47
Matthew KniesLW13:0625%45.5%— (0-0)33.3% 9:1555.0% 12:57
Auston MatthewsC13:0425%37.5%— (0-0)40.0% 9:1734.5% 15:34
Calle JarnkrokC12:5924%60.0%— (0-0)33.3% 9:2241.7% 7:26
Bobby McMannC12:5924%37.5%— (0-0)40.0% 9:2234.5% 15:00
Steven LorentzC12:5824%60.0%— (0-0)33.3% 9:2350.0% 8:37
John TavaresC12:4022%33.3%— (0-0)41.2% 9:4161.1% 11:57
Matias MaccelliLW12:2219%20.0%— (0-0)44.4% 9:5950.0% 11:59
Morgan RiellyD12:0717%0.0%— (0-0)42.9% 10:1454.8% 20:09
Max DomiC11:4514%0.0%— (0-0)45.0% 10:3647.8% 13:30

Game log

1 game in 2025-26, newest first

DateOppResultGAP+/-PIMHITBLKEVPPPK
Jan 3@ NYIOTL 3-400000003—12:2612:21—0:05

Season splits by strength

2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data

StrengthGPTOI/GPSAGFGAGF%
All situations112:2612:2691439.1%46.2%5500—0.50.20%
Even strength112:2112:2191439.1%46.2%5500—0.50.20%
5v5112:2112:2191439.1%46.2%5500—0.50.20%
Penalty kill10:050:0500——0000—0.00.0—

Career by season

Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)

SeasonTeamGPGAP+/-PIMHITBLKTOI/GP
2025-26TOR1000000—0312:26
2024-25SJS7000-5470.0%91013:02
2023-24SJS14022-514130.0%192918:29
2022-23SJS7712324-1826581.7%10212519:47
2021-22PlayoffsNSH3011-2040.0%10114:30
2021-22NSH6501111-2439610.0%826716:20
2020-21PlayoffsNSH5000-3610.0%14518:36
2020-21NSH53134-130432.3%555316:20
2019-20EDM43178+815382.6%783413:14
2018-19EDM7051217+1133945.3%1095914:57
2017-18EDM7361521+5491115.4%1498217:17

Matt Benning news

Headlines via LineupExperts. Links open the original publisher.

On-ice and deployment numbers are derived by Edgehalla from NHL play-by-play and shift data. Tracking percentiles are from NHL EDGE. Data updates after every game.