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Noel Acciari
St. Louis Blues Center
A 20.4 mph top speed and a 77.3 mph shot across twenty games — both beneath anything the qualified pool contains.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 307 | 45 | 32 | 77 | -6 | 121 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 415 | 10.8 | 13:26 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
20 games for Florida, 3 goals and 5 assists at 11:59 a night, plus-2, eleven penalty minutes, 32 shots. Undrafted, and 307 NHL games and seventy-seven points across seven seasons out of it.
Two hundred and fourteen minutes of five-on-five ice is less than half the five hundred this book requires before it will place a man in the league distribution, so what follows is described rather than ranked.
The Finesse Game
Fifty-eight per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet at a 16-foot median, at 5-11 and 204 pounds.
Only Logan Brown shoots from closer on this roster and only nine per cent of Acciari’s attempts came from beyond forty feet.
54.9 per cent of the expected goals across 214 five-on-five minutes, which needs its context: Florida finished 1st in the league in attempt share, 1st in chances and 1st in the standings. A depth forward’s share on that club is a description of the club.
He started 51.9 per cent of his end-zone shifts in the attacking end — sixty-eight against sixty-three.
His ice went 10-8 against an expectation of 10.48-8.61, which is close to level in both directions on eighteen goals.
The Physical Game
Eleven penalty minutes in twenty games, and 121 across a 307-game career.
5-11 and 204 pounds, and the hitting is what has kept him in the league.
The Intangibles
He was measured at 20.4 mph across twenty games. The slowest qualified forward in the league — Kevin Hayes of Philadelphia — reached 20.7, and only four qualified skaters of any position were measured below 20.5. Twenty games is not a comparable sample and the figure is quoted only to say how far beneath the pool it sits.
His shot is 77.3 mph. The softest measured among all 557 qualified skaters is 77.4, so on twenty games he shot softer than any qualified man in the league.
0.1 bursts a game and 1.95 miles a game. Every skating and shooting measurement in his file is at or beyond the bottom of the league distribution, and every one of them is drawn from a quarter-season.
He is 30, undrafted, with seventy-seven points in 307 games. Seven seasons, the net front and the checking are the case. A 20.4 mph top speed and a 77.3 mph shot, even on twenty games, are numbers no other forward in this book produces, and they are why he is a fourth-line centre.
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.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
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.
“Undrafted, and 307 NHL games and seventy-seven points across seven seasons out of it.”
“Fifty-eight per cent of his attempts came from inside twenty feet at a 16-foot median, at 5-11 and 204 pounds.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 214 minutes
- Expected goals
- 54.9%
- 86th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.6%
- 90th 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: 10 for, 8 against. Expected: 10.5 and 8.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 53 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 57 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, 2021-22 · 20 games
- Top speed
- 20.4 mph
- 5th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.15 a game
- Distance
- 1.95 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 77.3 mph
- 15th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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.
Usual linemates
2021-22 with FLA · 214 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Lomberg30%
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, 2021-22
- The club
- FLA took 56.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 54.9% — 1.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 214 minutes at five-on-five — 2nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patric Hornqvist | 61.2% | 50.4% | 58.7% |
| MacKenzie Weegar | 60.0% | 51.8% | 57.9% |
| Ryan Lomberg | 57.8% | 53.1% | 56.1% |
61.2% together, 50.4% for him apart and 58.7% for Hornqvist apart. He was worse away from Hornqvist, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Hornqvist did.
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
45 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 58% of his shots came from inside twenty feet.