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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Matias Maccelli

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Matias Maccelli

New York Islanders Left Wing #63

Minus 23, and 118 career assists.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22ARI23156-104000214.814:12
2022-23ARI641138490181016118.015:41
2023-24ARI82174057-4820214911.416:14
2024-25UTA5581018-138000869.313:44
2025-26TOR71142539-23162029015.614:34
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—29551118169-505450540712.515:05

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

14 goals and 25 assists in 71 games — 39 points, minus-23, at 14:34 a night. His 5-on-5 work was done in Toronto.

The Finesse Game

The passing is the case for him and it is genuine — 118 assists in 295 career games is a first-line playmaker’s rate from a fourth-round pick.

The shooting is thin: 138 unblocked attempts, 14 goals, median 26 feet with 39 per cent from inside 20. 51 goals in 295 games says he is a distributor and nothing else.

The Physical Game

5-11, 187, and light. 16 penalty minutes. He does not go near a wall battle and cannot hold the puck against pressure, which is why he needs linemates who can.

The Intangibles

Exactly 50 per cent of the expected goals, 54th percentile — dead average — against 46.8 per cent of the shot attempts, 24th, with the goals 43-50 against across 886 minutes.

The minus-23 is one of the worst in this book and the chances underneath were level. That is a bad-luck season rather than a bad player.

He is 25 and joins a club that under-finished by 20 goals and needs someone to set up its shooters. The passing will travel. Whether the rest of the game holds up in a defensive structure this poor is the question.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 886 minutes

Expected goals
50%
55th pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
46.8%
25th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 43 for, 50 against. Expected: 38.1 and 38.1.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
23rd
Numbers
55th

The numbers rank him 32 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 71 games

Top speed
22.7 mph
75th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
0.80 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
2.36 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
89.4 mph
80th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

6

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 6 assists, 12 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 with TOR · 886 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club
TOR took 46.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.0% — 3.7 above the club he did it on.
The role
Second line, 886 minutes at five-on-five — 46th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
John Tavares53.3%45.8%45.3%
Morgan Rielly56.2%46.0%45.8%
Oliver Ekman-Larsson49.9%50.0%47.4%

53.3% together, 45.8% for him apart and 45.3% for Tavares apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

138 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 14 of them goals. His median goal came from 22 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.