D · MIN · NHL id 8482641
Matt Kiersted has played 6 games for the Minnesota Wild in 2025-26, scoring 0 goals and 1 assist (1 points) on 4 shots while averaging 15:44 a night (13:22 at even strength, 0:00 on the power play and 2:00 shorthanded). At 5v5 he has skated 37% of his 5v5 minutes with Yakov Trenin and 34% with Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg over the last 6 games, and the Wild have controlled 41% of shot attempts with Kiersted on the ice (2-3 in goals, 42% offensive-zone starts). In the Wild's most recent game against ANA he was on D3 with Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg and off the power play; dropped to D3 (from D2) in the last game.
Right now
From the Apr 14 game vs ANA, detected from shift data
Deployment timeline
2025-26 · per-game ice time by strength, with line and power-play unit changes
Usage: 2 games, 18:51 average time on ice, PP1 in 0 games, 1 line changes.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- 5-game average
- Did not play
- ▲ promoted · ▼ demoted
NHL EDGE tracking
2025-26 percentiles among skaters at his position
Only 6 GP in 2025-26: NHL EDGE percentiles are noisy before about 15-20 games.
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 · 5 attempts, 4 on goal, 0 goals
Shot map, OPP at MIN: 5 attempts, 4 on goal, 0 goals, 0.05 expected goals; best chance Matt Kiersted at 0.02 xG.
- Even strength
- Power play
- Penalty kill
- Goal
- Shot on goal
- Missed
- Blocked
Luck
2025-26 · 6 GP · 1 points vs 1.0 expected
- 0.0%
- 98.6
- 33.3%
- G vs xG
- 0 / 0.1
- • Only 6 games: treat the meter as a hint.
- Actual goals
- Expected
- ±1σ
- Above expected
- Below expected
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
- Games played6
- Goals0
- Assists1
- Points1
- Shots on goal4
- Hits0
- Blocked shots10
- Plus/minus0
- Penalty minutes0
Possession & shot quality (5-on-5 on-ice)
- Corsi (CF%)41.4%
- Fenwick (FF%)41.2%
- Sequence xG (sxGF%)34.3%
Transition, turnovers & faceoffs
- Turnover Ledger /60−0.143
Usage
- Ice time per game15:44
- Offensive-zone start %42.4%
Special teams & discipline
Luck & trend
- On-ice PDO986
- Luck Meter−8449th of 828
NHL EDGE tracking
- Hardest shot73.7
- Offensive-zone time36.9%
Unranked rows are below the sample minimum (20 GP, 200 five-on-five minutes, 100 draws or 10 goalie games).
Beyond the box score
2022-23 regular season · 17 of 20 games through the sequence engine (more fill in as games are reprocessed)
- −0.070
- Season net
- −0.22xG
5-on-5. Each takeaway is credited, and each giveaway charged, at the league xG value of the zone.
- Per 60
- 0.32
- Attempts
- 1
- 0.000
5-on-5 shots within 10 seconds of winning the puck outside the offensive zone.
Linemates
2025-26 · 5v5 time together and how each pairing performs with and without Kiersted
| Teammate | Pos | GP | Share | CF% together | GF% together | CF% Kiersted apart | CF% mate apart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yakov Trenin | C | 6 | 29:03 | 37% | 37.7% | — (0-0) | 43.7% 50:15 | 51.6% 46:15 |
| Viking Gustafsson-Nyberg | D | 2 | 27:01 | 34% | 37.5% | 67% (2-1) | 100.0% 1:47 | 66.7% 5:11 |
| Vladimir Tarasenko | RW | 6 | 23:31 | 30% | 39.5% | 100% (1-0) | 42.2% 55:47 | 41.8% 51:55 |
| Nico Sturm | C | 6 | 21:49 | 28% | 44.4% | — (0-0) | 40.4% 57:29 | 45.5% 36:09 |
| Danila Yurov | RW | 6 | 21:38 | 27% | 31.6% | 50% (1-1) | 45.1% 57:40 | 41.2% 56:17 |
| Jared Spurgeon | D | 2 | 18:45 | 24% | 47.8% | — (0-0) | 11.1% 11:45 | 45.9% 16:56 |
| David Jiricek | D | 2 | 16:08 | 20% | 30.0% | — (0-0) | 40.0% 9:48 | 36.0% 8:54 |
| Nicolas Aube-Kubel | RW | 5 | 15:23 | 19% | 46.7% | — (0-0) | 36.7% 55:24 | 47.6% 38:38 |
| Ryan Hartman | RW | 4 | 13:31 | 17% | 60.0% | 0% (0-1) | 35.6% 36:59 | 52.2% 37:25 |
| Ben Jones | C | 5 | 12:50 | 16% | 36.7% | — (0-0) | 40.0% 57:57 | 37.1% 30:19 |
| Kirill Kaprizov | LW | 4 | 11:09 | 14% | 20.0% | — (0-0) | 45.8% 39:21 | 45.3% 56:28 |
| Marcus Foligno | LW | 3 | 10:08 | 13% | 61.9% | 0% (0-1) | 34.9% 28:53 | 52.4% 28:14 |
| Michael McCarron | RW | 2 | 9:37 | 12% | 54.5% | — (0-0) | 35.5% 19:11 | 57.6% 11:55 |
| Matt Boldy | LW | 3 | 9:33 | 12% | 27.8% | — (0-0) | 41.7% 32:26 | 50.7% 36:01 |
Game log
6 games in 2025-26, newest first
| Date | Opp | Result | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | EV | PP | PK | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14 | vs ANA | W 3-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | 20:19 | 15:15 | — | 3:12 |
| Apr 13 | @ STL | L 3-6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 19:15 | 14:27 | — | 4:48 |
| Jan 5 | @ LAK | L 2-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 8:31 | 8:31 | — | — |
| Dec 18 | @ CBJ | W 5-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — | 17:37 | 16:03 | — | 1:13 |
| Dec 16 | vs WSH | W 5-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 16:16 | 14:27 | — | 1:49 |
| Dec 13 | vs OTT | W 3-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | 12:24 | 11:29 | — | 0:55 |
Season splits by strength
2025-26 regular season · on-ice numbers from shift and play-by-play data
| Strength | GP | TOI/GP | SA | GF | GA | GF% | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All situations | 6 | 94:22 | 15:44 | 62 | 109 | 36.3% | 36.5% | 30 | 49 | 3 | 4 | 43% | 3.0 | 6.5 | 42% |
| Even strength | 6 | 80:12 | 13:22 | 58 | 84 | 40.8% | 40.8% | 27 | 35 | 2 | 3 | 40% | 2.3 | 4.8 | 44% |
| 5v5 | 6 | 79:18 | 13:13 | 58 | 82 | 41.4% | 41.2% | 27 | 34 | 2 | 3 | 40% | 2.3 | 4.7 | 42% |
| Penalty kill | 5 | 11:57 | 2:23 | 2 | 19 | 9.5% | 11.8% | 2 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0% | 0.0 | 1.3 | 0% |
| 4v5 | 5 | 11:32 | 2:18 | 2 | 18 | 10.0% | 12.5% | 2 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0% | 0.0 | 1.1 | 0% |
| 5v6, opponent net empty | 2 | 2:13 | 1:07 | 2 | 6 | 25.0% | 33.3% | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0.7 | 0.4 | — |
Career by season
Seasons in Edgehalla's data (2025-26 is being backfilled; earlier seasons follow)
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | HIT | BLK | TOI/GP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | MIN | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.0% | 0 | 10 | 15:44 |
| 2024-25 | FLA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 1 | 12:41 |
| 2022-23 | FLA | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 6 | 14 | 7.1% | 13 | 7 | 9:51 |
| 2021-22 | FLA | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -8 | 2 | 11 | 9.1% | 10 | 17 | 14:03 |
| 2020-21 | FLA | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -4 | 2 | 6 | 0.0% | 1 | 10 | 15:10 |
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.