Nathan MacKinnon’s points against every NHL team, and the one that stops him

Nathan MacKinnon has 1,142 points in 950 regular-season games through the 2025-26 season, all of them for Colorado. He has scored a goal, an assist, and a point against all 31 opposing franchises, and he has done one thing Leon Draisaitl and Auston Matthews have not: he has scored a game-winning goal against every other team in the league.

His best opponent is Seattle at 1.769 points a game. His worst is Florida at 0.833. The strangest row in his record is Vegas, where he shoots more than against almost anyone and scores less than against everyone.

Nathan MacKinnon’s points against every NHL team

Regular season, through the end of the 2025-26 season. Ranked by points per game. Career rate 1.202. Arizona and Utah are shown as one franchise.

Opponent	GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/GP	S	S%
Seattle Kraken	13	6	17	23	1.769	46	13.0
Ottawa Senators	23	12	26	38	1.652	89	13.5
Buffalo Sabres	20	13	19	32	1.600	81	16.0
Detroit Red Wings	23	18	17	35	1.522	100	18.0
San Jose Sharks	40	22	38	60	1.500	176	12.5
Calgary Flames	33	20	27	47	1.424	135	14.8
Tampa Bay Lightning	23	11	21	32	1.391	84	13.1
Washington Capitals	23	13	18	31	1.348	92	14.1
Anaheim Ducks	37	17	31	48	1.297	164	10.4
Minnesota Wild	55	27	43	70	1.273	216	12.5
Edmonton Oilers	31	13	26	39	1.258	130	10.0
Pittsburgh Penguins	24	11	19	30	1.250	92	12.0
Nashville Predators	42	21	31	52	1.238	182	11.5
New York Rangers	22	12	15	27	1.227	91	13.2
Carolina Hurricanes	23	8	20	28	1.217	90	8.9
Vancouver Canucks	31	14	23	37	1.194	155	9.0
Toronto Maple Leafs	24	10	18	28	1.167	92	10.9
Los Angeles Kings	36	14	27	41	1.139	124	11.3
Columbus Blue Jackets	23	7	19	26	1.130	91	7.7
New Jersey Devils	23	12	14	26	1.130	98	12.2
New York Islanders	23	10	16	26	1.130	99	10.1
Chicago Blackhawks	47	16	37	53	1.128	181	8.8
Utah Mammoth	42	15	32	47	1.119	182	8.2
Dallas Stars	48	20	33	53	1.104	202	9.9
St. Louis Blues	53	21	37	58	1.094	199	10.6
Vegas Golden Knights	31	8	22	30	0.968	140	5.7
Philadelphia Flyers	22	6	15	21	0.955	78	7.7
Montreal Canadiens	21	8	12	20	0.952	71	11.3
Winnipeg Jets	47	18	26	44	0.936	191	9.4
Boston Bruins	23	8	12	20	0.870	84	9.5
Florida Panthers	24	9	11	20	0.833	87	10.3
Career	950	420	722	1142	1.202	3842	10.9

How many points does Nathan MacKinnon have?

1142 points in 950 games through the end of the 2025-26 season: 420 goals and 722 assists. That is 1.202 points a game, or 98.6 across an 82-game season. Assists account for 63.2% of his points, and only 26.9% of his goals have come on the power play. He is a volume shooter, taking 4.04 shots a game and converting 10.9% of them.

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Which team does Nathan MacKinnon score most against?

Seattle leads at 1.769 points a game, 47% above his career rate, and 74% of that production comes from assists. Ottawa is second at 1.652 and Buffalo third at 1.600. Detroit is the row worth stopping on, at 1.522 points a game, because it is the only opponent in his entire career against whom he has scored more goals than assists: 18 goals and 17 assists in 23 games. It is also his best shooting percentage at 18.0, his best game-winner rate at 17.8 per 82, and a plus-19. Four separate columns point at the same matchup.

Which team has Nathan MacKinnon struggled against?

Florida, at 0.833 points a game, 31% below his career rate, with Boston just behind at 0.870. Both are small samples by Western standards, and both sit in the range where the conclusion should be stated carefully. The more interesting weakness is Vegas. He takes 4.52 shots a game against the Golden Knights, his second-highest rate against any opponent, and converts 5.71% of them: 8 goals on 140 shots, barely half his career rate. It drags his points pace 19.5% below his career figure and makes Vegas the only club where high volume and poor finishing combine against him.

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Has Nathan MacKinnon scored a game-winner against every team?

Yes, all 31. He has 76 career game-winning goals, 6.6 per 82, and he has beaten every franchise late. That is a cleaner record than it sounds: Draisaitl has three clubs he has never scored a winner against, and Auston Matthews has five. MacKinnon’s highest totals are Anaheim and Minnesota with 7 each, then Calgary, Chicago and Detroit with 5. Another measure: only four of the 31 franchises have a positive plus-minus against him, with Vancouver worst at minus five.

Which opponent brings out Nathan MacKinnon’s temper?

The Arizona and Utah franchise, by a distance. He has 78 penalty minutes in 42 games against them, a rate of 1.86 a game against a career figure of 0.451, which is more than four times his normal rate and 18% of his career penalty minutes against one opponent. 69 of those minutes came in the Arizona Coyotes era rather than since the move to Utah. Edmonton is second at 0.94 a game. At the other end, he has played 23 games against Tampa Bay without a single penalty minute.

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How does Nathan MacKinnon fare against the teams he plays most?

Slightly worse, which is the opposite of what people assume. Against the eight franchises he has faced 40 times or more he averages 1.168 points a game and shoots 10.46%. Against the other 23 he averages 1.224 and shoots 11.24%.

His assist share stays flat across both groups at about 63%, so the drop is finishing rather than role. East against West is essentially neutral for MacKinnon at 1.209 against 1.198.

Where does this data come from?

Opponent splits were compiled from Hockey-Reference’s career splits for Nathan MacKinnon and verified against his player page on NHL.com. Contract terms come from the eight-year extension reported in September 2022 and listed on PuckPedia.