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Noel Acciari
Pittsburgh Penguins Center
Undrafted, the lowest chance share on the club, and one power-play goal in 439 games.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 439 | 63 | 44 | 107 | -17 | 152 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 576 | 10.9 | 13:32 |
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
55 games, 4 goals and 3 assists for 7 points, 10 penalty minutes, 12:58 a night and minus-7, with 1 game-winner. He took 41.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 580 minutes — the 7th percentile and the lowest chance share of anybody on the club — and his ice went 17-25 against an expectation of 17.93-25.41.
Within a goal of the chances at both ends, which is to say he finished exactly where he was sent. The 41.4 per cent is what the hardest defensive assignment in Pittsburgh looks like on paper.
The Finesse Game
75 attempts at a median of 19 feet with 52 per cent of them from inside twenty and 11 per cent from beyond forty, 57 of those on goal, converted at 6.8 per cent against a career 10.94 across 576 shots.
One power-play goal in 439 career games, and 12 game-winners out of 63 goals. Everything he scores comes from inside twenty feet because that is the only place he goes with the puck; the twenty-goal season in Florida four years ago was the same chart with the shots falling.
The Physical Game
He is 5-11 and 204 and took 10 penalty minutes.
152 career penalty minutes in 439 games. He is thick and low and finishes every check available to him, and the low penalty total for a player that physical is the useful part — he hits without reaching, which is why he can be sent out for the defensive-zone shift.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, nine seasons, five organisations, and 107 points in 439 games.
A career minus-17 across nine seasons of the hardest minutes on whatever club he is on. He was undrafted and has made a decade out of a job nobody else asks for.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 580 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.4%
- 7th pct
- Shot attempts
- 40.9%
- 2nd 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: 17 for, 25 against. Expected: 17.9 and 25.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 44 points above where the numbers do. 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 652 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 · 580 minutes at five-on-five
- Jeff Carteroff the roster61%
- Matt Nieto30%
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
- PIT took 51.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.4% — 9.7 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 580 minutes at five-on-five — 23rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Carter | 43.4% | 38.4% | 40.2% |
| Marcus Pettersson | 41.2% | 41.5% | 55.0% |
| Ryan Graves | 39.8% | 42.2% | 50.4% |
43.4% together, 38.4% for him apart and 40.2% for Carter 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
75 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 4 of them goals. His median goal came from 12 feet. 52% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 11% from beyond forty.