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Vinni Lettieri
Boston Bruins Center
Undrafted, a hundred and twenty-nine NHL games across six seasons, and a thirteenth forward's job.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-18 | NYR | 19 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.6 | 12:03 |
| 2018-19 | NYR | 27 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 2.5 | 10:09 |
| 2020-21 | ANA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 12:43 |
| 2021-22 | ANA | 31 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 10.0 | 12:31 |
| 2022-23 | BOS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 9:50 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 46 | 5 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 10.6 | 9:35 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 129 | 12 | 15 | 27 | -38 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 173 | 6.9 | 10:54 |
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
5 goals and 4 assists in 46 games for Minnesota — 9 points at 9:35 a night, minus-7, with 1 game-winner on 47 shots, converting at 10.64 per cent, and 24 penalty minutes.
45.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 411 minutes, the 22nd percentile. His ice went 13-18 against an expectation of 13.07-15.91.
The Finesse Game
47 attempts at a median of 26 feet, with 32 per cent from inside 20 and 24 per cent from beyond 40, converting at 10.64 per cent. Twelve goals in 129 career games.
Four assists. He is a shooter on a fourth line, which is a difficult combination to make useful, and the puck does not stay on his stick.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 184 and one of the lightest forwards on the roster. He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.
24 penalty minutes in 46 games is a slightly high rate for a player who does not hit, and most of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Minnesota, and 129 NHL games spread across six seasons and four organisations at 29, with far more American-league games than NHL ones.
He is a thirteenth forward on a good club, which is a job worth having and is the ceiling. An undrafted forward who reaches a hundred and twenty-nine NHL games has beaten very long odds already.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
30% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 3rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**Undrafted**, out of Minnesota, and **129 NHL games spread across six seasons and four organisations** at 29, with far more American-league games than NHL ones.”
“**He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.**”
“**He does not forecheck with force and he does not win pucks on the wall.**”
“24 penalty minutes in 46 games is a slightly high rate for a player who does not hit, and most of it is the stick foul that follows losing a step.”
“Four assists. **He is a shooter on a fourth line, which is a difficult combination to make useful**, and the puck does not stay on his stick.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 411 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.1%
- 22nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 44.6%
- 15th 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: 13 for, 18 against. Expected: 13.1 and 15.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 18 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 54 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, 2023-24 · 46 games
- Top speed
- 22.9 mph
- 85th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.52 a game
- Distance
- 1.53 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 92.9 mph
- 84th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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
2023-24 with MIN · 411 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, 2023-24
- The club
- MIN took 51.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.1% — 6.2 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 411 minutes at five-on-five — 13th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Lucchini | 44.1% | 45.9% | 42.3% |
| Brock Faber | 45.0% | 45.2% | 51.1% |
| Brandon Duhaime | 40.3% | 48.1% | 47.0% |
44.1% together, 45.9% for him apart and 42.3% for Lucchini 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
71 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 5 of them goals. His median goal came from 30 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.