{"id":99856,"date":"2025-08-27T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99856\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:16:08","slug":"nhl-edge-stats-leaders-for-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/99856\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL EDGE stats leaders for Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2. High-danger, midrange and long-range goals<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs tied for second in the NHL in midrange shooting percentage (13.6 percent) last season, and their forwards ranked highly in high-danger goals (127; sixth), midrange goals (76; fourth) and long-range goals (10; fourth).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/auston-matthews-8479318\" title=\"Auston Matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auston Matthews<\/a> led the NHL in midrange goals (22) and was tied for fifth in high-danger goals (30) in 2023-24. He ranked among the leaders at forward last season in high-danger shots on goal (83; 97th percentile), high-danger goals (18; 94th percentile), midrange shots on goal (91; 96th percentile), midrange goals (seven; 82nd percentile), long-range shots on goal (18; 87th percentile) and long-range goals (two; 93rd percentile).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-tavares-8475166\" title=\"John Tavares\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Tavares<\/a> was fourth among forwards in midrange shooting percentage (24.5 percent) and ranked highly in high-danger shots on goal (104; fifth), high-danger goals (18; 94th percentile), midrange goals (13; 96th percentile) and midrange shots on goal (53; 84th percentile).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/matthew-knies-8482720\" title=\"Matthew Knies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Knies<\/a> ranked in the 98th percentile in high-danger goals (22), 96th percentile in high-danger shots on goal (81) and 89th percentile in top skating speed (23.13 mph) among forwards. He was tied for sixth in the playoffs in high-danger goals (five; led Toronto) and ranked fifth in high-danger shots on goals (21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. High-danger, midrange and long-range goals The Maple Leafs tied for second in the NHL in midrange shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-99856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}