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Matthew Kessel

D · 6'3", 215 lb · 26 years old · Shoots right · Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA

Drafted 2020 · STL · round 5 · #150 overall

Last 4 games

Date	Opp	A	PTS	SOG	+/−	TOI
Oct 20	ANA	1	1	1	+1	13:57
Oct 17	@TOR	0	0	0	+1	16:18
Oct 15	@OTT	0	0	1	0	10:30
Oct 13	VAN	1	1	1	0	13:51

Against his position

This playerAverage defencemen

Against 233 defencemen, on rates per 60 minutes so a shortened season is not read as a worse one.

Role

Hits / 602.19139th

Blocks / 601.09229th

Takeaways / 600.00192nd

Giveaways / 602.1937th

Penalty minutes01st

Off the radar because these describe a role rather than a quality — a shutdown defenceman blocks more than a power-play specialist, and neither is better for it.

NHL regular season

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/−	SOG	S%	TOI
2026-27	New York Islanders	4	0	2	2	+2	3	–	13:39
2025-26	St. Louis Blues	29	2	1	3	+1	20	10.0	12:32
2024-25	St. Louis Blues	29	0	3	3	-3	17	–	13:08
2023-24	St. Louis Blues	39	1	6	7	0	28	3.6	16:48
2022-23	St. Louis Blues	2	0	0	0	-1	3	–	15:10
Career		103	3	12	15	-1	71	4.2	14:25

Other competitions

Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	PTS
2024-25	AHL	Springfield Thunderbirds	29	5	12	17
2023-24	AHL	Springfield Thunderbirds	36	3	5	8
2023-24	WC	USA	2	0	1	1
2023-24	International	Team USA	1	0	1	1
2022-23	AHL	Springfield Thunderbirds	71	5	28	33
2021-22	NCAA	Univ. of Massachusetts	37	6	11	17
2021-22	AHL	Springfield Thunderbirds	15	0	3	3
2020-21	NCAA	Univ. of Massachusetts	29	10	13	23
2019-20	NCAA	Univ. of Massachusetts	34	7	4	11
2018-19	USHL	Sioux Falls Stampede	62	2	17	19
2017-18	USHL	Fargo Force	32	0	3	3
2017-18	USA-S17	Team Royal	5	2	0	2
2017-18	USHL	Chicago Steel	20	0	0	0
2016-17	HPHL 16U	Compuware 16U AAA	20	1	3	4
2016-17	USA-S16	Team Orange	5	0	6	6
2015-16	USA-S15	Team Royal	5	0	4	4
2015-16	HPHL 16U	Little Caesars 16U AAA	8	0	0	0
2014-15	HPHL 14U	Little Caesars 14U AAA	17	3	4	7
2013-14	HPHL 13U	Little Caesars 13U AAA	20	0	4	4
2012-13	QC Int PW	Detroit Honeybaked	2	0	0	0

Shot maps, expected goals and comparisons against league average at this position are coming to this page. They come from Puckflow’s own model rather than the NHL feed, and an empty chart would be worse than this sentence.