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Noel Acciari
Pittsburgh Penguins Center
Undrafted, 5-11, and 54 per cent of his shot attempts from inside 20 feet on the club's worst chance-share line.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 518 | 68 | 51 | 119 | -42 | 168 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 651 | 10.4 | 13:34 |
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
5 goals and 7 assists in 79 games — 12 points at 13:46 a night, minus-25, with 16 penalty minutes.
41.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 8th percentile — the worst mark of any forward here who played a full season. His ice went 17-44 against an expectation of 25.11-35.42, which means the results were slightly better than the chances and the chances were bad.
The Finesse Game
75 attempts at a median of 18 feet with 54 per cent from inside 20 feet — the highest share of any forward on this roster — and 5 goals from it. He gets to the paint and he cannot finish, which has been the whole of his career.
7 assists in 79 games. There is no creation here and the club has never asked for any.
The Physical Game
5-11 and 204 and among the more punishing hitters in the league at his size. He forechecks first, he finishes everything, and he blocks shots at a rate near the top of the roster.
16 penalty minutes in 79 games is a remarkably low total for a player who hits this much, and it says the physicality is clean and structural rather than provocative.
The Intangibles
Undrafted out of Providence College, and 518 NHL games later he is on his fourth organisation.
He is 34, on a contract signed to be a fourth-line centre and a penalty killer, and he did exactly that job on a club whose fourth line was the worst possession unit it had.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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.
- durable· was available
79 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
21% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 1st percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Undrafted out of Providence College**, and 518 NHL games later he is on his fourth organisation.”
“He gets to the paint and he cannot finish, which has been the whole of his career.”
“He forechecks first, he finishes everything, and he blocks shots at a rate near the top of the roster.”
“He forechecks first, he finishes everything, and he blocks shots at a rate near the top of the roster.”
“He forechecks first, he finishes everything, and he blocks shots at a rate near the top of the roster.”
“16 penalty minutes in 79 games is a remarkably low total for a player who hits this much, and it says the physicality is clean and structural rather than provocative.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 880 minutes
- Expected goals
- 41.5%
- 6th pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.2%
- 9th 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, 44 against. Expected: 25.1 and 35.4.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 24 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 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 79 games
- Top speed
- 21.0 mph
- 8th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.22 a game
- Distance
- 2.15 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.4 mph
- 35th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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
2024-25 · 880 minutes at five-on-five
- Matt Nietooff the roster32%
- Kevin Hayes18%
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
- PIT took 49.0% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 41.5% — 7.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 880 minutes at five-on-five — 43rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Lizotte | 39.5% | 43.2% | 48.1% |
| Erik Karlsson | 35.9% | 45.3% | 51.8% |
| Matt Nieto | 40.2% | 42.0% | — |
39.5% together, 43.2% for him apart and 48.1% for Lizotte apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
114 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 9 feet. 54% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 13% from beyond forty.