Armchair Hockey Scout Beta

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Matias Maccelli

Utah Hockey Club Left Wing

Forty assists in all 82 games, on eight penalty minutes.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22ARI23156-104000214.814:12
2022-23ARI641138490181016118.015:41
2023-24ARI82174057-4820214911.416:14
2024-25 so far
Career1692983112-143030323112.615:45

This Season So Far

The 2024-25 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

82 games, 17 goals and 40 assists for 57 points, 2 on the power play, 8 penalty minutes, 16:14 a night and minus-4, with 2 game-winners. He took 51.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,126 minutes, the 61st percentile, and his ice went 51-40 against an expectation of 49.02-47.04.

Two goals of finishing above what the chances were worth and seven goals of goaltending above them. Fifty-seven points in his third season is a career high by eight.

The Finesse Game

201 attempts at a median of 31 feet with 30 per cent of them from inside twenty and 25 per cent from beyond forty, 147 of those on goal, converted at 11.4 per cent against a career 12.55 across 231 shots.

Eighty-three career assists against 29 goals in 169 games. The ratio is nearly three to one and it has been that way since he arrived; he holds the puck on the wall until the second man arrives and then throws it into the slot.

The Physical Game

He is 5-11 and 187 and took 8 penalty minutes in all 82 games.

Thirty career penalty minutes in 169 games. He is small and does not use what weight he has; the puck is protected with position and edges rather than with the body, and he gives up the wall when a defenceman commits to him.

The Intangibles

Ninety-eighth overall in 2019 by Arizona, three seasons, one organisation, and 112 points in 169 games.

A career minus-14 in 169 games. He is 23, he was a fourth-round pick, and he has 83 assists against 29 goals in his first 169 NHL games.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,126 minutes

Expected goals
51%
61st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
48.6%
42nd pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 51 for, 40 against. Expected: 49.0 and 47.0.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight
Report
72nd
Numbers
61st

The two rank him within 11 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.

Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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.

Usual linemates

2023-24 with ARI · 1126 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, 2023-24

The club
ARI took 48.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.0% — 2.1 above the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 1,126 minutes at five-on-five — 76th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Nick Bjugstad53.4%47.7%41.0%
Lawson Crouse53.1%48.3%45.1%
J.J. Moser50.4%51.4%50.1%

53.4% together, 47.7% for him apart and 41.0% for Bjugstad 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

201 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 30% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.