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Matias Maccelli
Toronto Maple Leafs Left Wing
Ninety-three assists in 224 NHL games, and eighteen points in a season that fell apart in Utah.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | ARI | 23 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 | 14:12 |
| 2022-23 | ARI | 64 | 11 | 38 | 49 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 18.0 | 15:41 |
| 2023-24 | ARI | 82 | 17 | 40 | 57 | -4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 149 | 11.4 | 16:14 |
| 2024-25 | UTA | 55 | 8 | 10 | 18 | -13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 9.3 | 13:44 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 224 | 37 | 93 | 130 | -27 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 317 | 11.7 | 15:15 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
8 goals and 10 assists in 55 games for Utah — 18 points at 13:44 a night, minus-13, with 8 penalty minutes.
He had 57 and 49 points in the two seasons before it and was a healthy scratch for stretches of this one. It is the sort of collapse that either means a player has been found out or that a club stopped using him properly, and the two are hard to separate from outside.
The Finesse Game
93 assists in 224 NHL games is the file. He is a genuine playmaker — he holds the puck on the half wall, he waits for a lane rather than forcing one, and the passes he attempts are ones almost nobody else sees.
86 attempts and 8 goals in 55 games. There is very little shot and there never has been: 37 goals in 224 games.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 187 and light. He does not forecheck with force, he does not win pucks on the wall, and he is not used against a first line.
8 penalty minutes in 55 games. He is entirely out of the physical half of the game, which at his size is the only choice and it narrows where he can be used considerably.
The Intangibles
A fourth-round pick of Arizona in 2019 out of Finland, and 224 NHL games with 130 points.
He is 25 and Toronto acquired him from Utah in the summer for a conditional draft pick. On a club that has just lost a hundred-point winger, a 25-year-old who has twice produced fifty points is a sensible thing to buy cheaply.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 673 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.2%
- 73rd pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.3%
- 93rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 30 against. Expected: 29.3 and 26.8.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 43 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 69 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
2024-25 with UTA · 673 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, 2024-25
- The club
- UTA took 53.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.2% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 673 minutes at five-on-five — 26th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Cole | 50.7% | 53.3% | 54.1% |
| Michael Kesselring | 55.2% | 50.4% | 53.0% |
| Nick Bjugstad | 50.6% | 53.0% | 51.5% |
50.7% together, 53.3% for him apart and 54.1% for Cole apart. Cole was better away from him while his own share held, which is a mark against him more than for him.
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
141 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 8 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 24% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 30% from beyond forty.