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Noel Acciari

Undrafted, 585 games, and half his shots from the paint.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	BOS	19	0	1	1	-4	8	0	0	0	18	0.0	9:54
2016-17	BOS	29	2	3	5	+3	16	0	0	0	24	8.3	10:22
2017-18	BOS	60	10	1	11	-6	9	0	1	0	66	15.2	12:55
2018-19	BOS	72	6	8	14	-3	47	0	0	2	99	6.1	12:59
2019-20	FLA	66	20	7	27	+2	21	0	1	5	108	18.5	15:58
2020-21	FLA	41	4	7	11	0	9	1	0	1	68	5.9	15:24
2021-22	FLA	20	3	5	8	+2	11	0	0	1	32	9.4	11:59
2022-23	STL/TOR	77	14	9	23	-4	21	0	0	2	102	13.7	14:19
2023-24	PIT	55	4	3	7	-7	10	0	0	1	59	6.8	12:58
2024-25	PIT	79	5	7	12	-25	16	0	0	0	75	6.7	13:46
2025-26	PIT	67	13	12	25	+14	25	0	0	1	93	14.0	13:42
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	585	81	63	144	-28	193	1	2	13	744	10.9	13:35

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

13 goals and 12 assists in 67 games — 25 points, plus-14, at 13:42 a night with 25 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Pittsburgh.

The Finesse Game

Modest and perfectly placed. 127 unblocked attempts with 50 per cent from inside 20 feet, median 21, and 13 goals.

That is a career-best scoring season at 34, produced entirely by standing where the puck goes in. 144 points in 585 career games is the honest rate.

12 assists is the ceiling.

The Physical Game

5-11, 204, and one of the most physically committed forwards in the league — he blocks shots, he finishes every check, and he has the injury record of a man who has never taken a shift off.

25 penalty minutes is low for the way he plays.

The Intangibles

52.6 per cent of the expected goals, 74th percentile, with the goals 34-25 in his favour across 738 minutes.

Undrafted out of Providence, and 585 NHL games out of it.

He is 34 and joins a club that finished 8th on the penalty kill and 4th at preventing chances. He is exactly the sort of player that structure is made of, and the shot chart says he can still score a little as well.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

measuredcomputed here from the season's own data

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
15% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 0th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 738 minutes

Expected goals: 52.6%; 75th pct
Shot attempts: 48.5%; 42nd pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 25 against. Expected: 28.7 and 25.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

38th

Numbers

75th

The numbers rank him 37 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 — 70 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 · 67 games

Top speed: 21.1 mph; 13th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.33 a game
Distance: 2.06 miles a game
Hardest shot: 77.0 mph; 12th pct

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

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 2 assists, 22 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with PIT · 738 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: PIT took 51.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.6% — 0.8 above the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 738 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Connor Dewar	54.2%	43.3%	47.7%
Blake Lizotte	55.0%	49.7%	50.6%
Ryan Shea	43.3%	58.0%	54.3%

54.2% together, 43.3% for him apart and 47.7% for Dewar 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

127 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 13 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 50% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.