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Mats Zuccarello
Minnesota Wild Center
Undrafted out of Oslo, 438 career assists, and 51 of them at 36.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-11 | NYR | 42 | 6 | 17 | 23 | +3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 8.1 | 14:10 |
| 2011-12 | NYR | 10 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 20.0 | 10:03 |
| 2012-13 | NYR | 15 | 3 | 5 | 8 | +10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 11.1 | 16:25 |
| 2013-14 | NYR | 77 | 19 | 40 | 59 | +11 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 170 | 11.2 | 17:08 |
| 2014-15 | NYR | 78 | 15 | 34 | 49 | +17 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 154 | 9.7 | 17:16 |
| 2015-16 | NYR | 81 | 26 | 35 | 61 | +2 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 166 | 15.7 | 18:29 |
| 2016-17 | NYR | 80 | 15 | 44 | 59 | +15 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 189 | 7.9 | 18:50 |
| 2017-18 | NYR | 80 | 16 | 37 | 53 | -10 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 178 | 9.0 | 18:55 |
| 2018-19 | NYR/DAL | 48 | 12 | 28 | 40 | -8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 104 | 11.5 | 19:51 |
| 2019-20 | MIN | 65 | 15 | 22 | 37 | -9 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 96 | 15.6 | 15:56 |
| 2020-21 | MIN | 42 | 11 | 24 | 35 | +9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 14.9 | 16:41 |
| 2021-22 | MIN | 70 | 24 | 55 | 79 | +21 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 159 | 15.1 | 18:35 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 78 | 22 | 45 | 67 | -3 | 26 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 198 | 11.1 | 20:12 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 69 | 12 | 51 | 63 | -5 | 30 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 173 | 6.9 | 18:54 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 835 | 198 | 438 | 636 | +53 | 321 | 48 | 1 | 29 | 1772 | 11.2 | 17:57 |
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
69 games, 12 goals and 51 assists for 63 points, 5 on the power play, 30 penalty minutes, 18:54 a night and minus-5. He took 52.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 974 minutes, the 70th percentile, and his ice went 45-39 against an expectation of 38.75-35.21.
Six goals of finishing above expectation and four more conceded than the chances called for. Fifty-one assists at 36 on a club that finished twenty-first in scoring.
The Finesse Game
246 attempts at a median of 33 feet with 37 per cent from beyond 40, converted at 6.9 per cent against a career 11.17.
438 career assists in 835 games. He does not shoot to score any more and the twelve goals say so. What he does is hold the puck on the wall until a lane opens, and the pass that follows is the reason this club has a fourth-ranked power play.
The Physical Game
He is 5-8 and 181 and avoids contact wherever the puck allows it.
30 penalty minutes in 69 games is a low rate. He does not forecheck, does not win the wall by force, and is easy to move off a puck by anybody who can catch him.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Oslo, fourteen seasons across three organisations, and 636 points in 835 games.
He is 37 and produced 63 points. The feet went two years ago and the head has not, and a club with four forwards worth watching cannot replace the fourth of them.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 974 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.4%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.9%
- 54th 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: 45 for, 39 against. Expected: 38.8 and 35.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 9 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 415 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 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 · 974 minutes at five-on-five
- Marco Rossi60%
- Ryan Hartman32%
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
- MIN took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.4% — 1.1 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 974 minutes at five-on-five — 55th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Rossi | 52.0% | 52.9% | 53.8% |
| Kirill Kaprizov | 52.5% | 52.3% | 57.7% |
| Brock Faber | 47.3% | 55.5% | 51.5% |
52.0% together, 52.9% for him apart and 53.8% for Rossi apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
246 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 24% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 37% from beyond forty.