Matt Kiersted
Minnesota Wild · LD · 28
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- Not on file (no sourced cap hit)
- Worth
- 1.3% of the cap
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight · Live · P2 13:19 · MIN 0–2 CGY as of 10:14 p.m. ET
MIN at CGY
Projected slot from the licensed depth chart; props from the model's learned layer on shots, finishing and the opposing starter; ratings are last season's until this one has enough games. Information, not a recommendation.
Latest move: The Minnesota Wild recalled D Matt Kiersted from the minors. (2026-10-09).
Production and deployment
How the points were built
Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.
Organizational context
LD regulars in MIN
The all-team median is . MIN’s farm system sits #26 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Matt Kiersted is in the middle of the pack for attention (41st percentile); attention this week is 5× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: .
Contract
No contract for this player has been sourced yet. CapOrCup does not estimate it.
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Matt Kiersted ranks, and how sure we are
Each rank is the 10th to 90th percentile of his place when every skater's value is redrawn 1,000 times from his own band. One season rarely separates a player from the dozens around him.
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Career arc ·
Matt Kiersted, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: .
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
No draft projection: projections exist for players drafted from 2005 on who have season lines on file.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | ||||
| 2021-22 | ||||
| 2022-23 | ||||
| 2024-25 | ||||
| 2025-26 | ||||
| 2026-27 |
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-10-18
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-10-09 · recalled from the minors · The Minnesota Wild recalled D Matt Kiersted from the minors.
2026-09-24 · sent to the minors · The Minnesota Wild assigned D Matt Kiersted to the minors.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far:
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Justin HollD · matched at ages | ||
| Vladimir DraveckyD · matched at ages | ||
| Sergei BoikovD · matched at ages | ||
| Tomas GalvasD · matched at ages | ||
| Corey SchuenemanD · matched at ages | ||
| Jake MiddletonD · matched at ages | ||
| Jaycob MegnaD · matched at ages | ||
| Casey FitzgeraldD · matched at ages |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Fit components (description)
Matt Kiersted: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Matt Kiersted's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Role: Not on file (fewer than 10 games in the last two seasons)
Rules that travel with him: blocked. Club-specific rules (50 contracts, 23-man roster, the two front offices) are on each team's Moves tab.
- Trade protection: Not on file. clause not confirmed. CBA Art. 11.8(a)
- Waiver exemption: blocked. signed at 22: past 3 seasons or 70 NHL games (now season 7, 45 games). CBA Art. 13.4
as of 2026-04-16