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Zac Rinaldo

#36 · Centre · Calgary Flames

Born Jun 15, 1990 in Mississauga, Ontario, CAN · 5'10", 192 lb · Shoots left · Drafted 178th overall in 2008 by PHI (round 6)

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Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

024682011-12: 9 points911-122012-13: 5 points512-132013-14: 4 points413-142014-15: 6 points614-152015-16: 3 points315-162017-18: 7 points717-182018-19: 3 points318-192019-20: 5 points519-202020-21: 0 points020-21

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
2011-12 PHI 66 2 7 9 -1 232 54 175 0.14
2012-13 PHI 32 3 2 5 -7 85 15 143 0.16 $540K
2013-14 PHI 67 2 2 4 -13 153 54 231 0.06 $750K
2014-15 PHI 58 1 5 6 -9 102 45 216 0.10 $750K
2015-16 BOS 52 1 2 3 -5 83 38 154 0.06 $850K
2017-18 ARI 53 5 2 7 -7 44 56 188 0.13 $700K
2018-19 NSH 23 1 2 3 1 20 11 47 0.13 $650K
2019-20 CGY 19 3 2 5 -1 34 19 69 0.26 $700K
2020-21 CGY 4 0 0 0 -1 5 1 13 0.00 $700K
9 seasons Career 374 18 24 42 -43 758 293 1236 0.11

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
2010-11 PHI 2 0 0 0 -1 12 0 5 0.00
2011-12 PHI 5 0 0 0 -2 48 2 15 0.00
2013-14 PHI 7 0 0 0 -2 4 7 17 0.00
2019-20 CGY 5 0 0 0 0 4 0 22 0.00
4 seasons Playoffs 19 0 0 0 -5 68 9 59 0.00

2010-11 season totals

This player has no games in this season.

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2020-21 to 2020-21 $700K
2019-20 to 2019-20 $700K
2018-19 to 2018-19 $650K
2017-18 to 2017-18 $700K
2013-14 to 2015-16 $750K
2012-13 to 2012-13 $540K

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2010-11 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

2010-11 playoff analytics

Regular season Playoffs

Rating

-0.2Goals above replacementsix goals are worth about one win
0.0Wins above replacementgoals above replacement divided by six
-0.2Goals above averagethe five parts below added up
Even-strength offence0.0Even-strength defence0.0Power play0.0Penalty kill0.0Penalties-0.2

The goals he added to his team's goal difference, compared with a spare-part player given the same ice time. Each part is measured against the league, so zero is an average skater. A full season is about two-thirds the player and one-third chance. A playoff run is too short to rank anyone on. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

-6-4-2022011-122013-142015-162018-192020-21Goals above replacementGoals above replacement, by season

On the ice

What happened at five-on-five while he was on the ice. What these numbers mean

54.5Corsi for %6 attempts for, 5 against
+3.7CF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
43.7Expected goals for %0.2 expected for, 0.3 against
+0.8xGF% relative to teamagainst the team without him
66.7Fenwick for %unblocked attempts
0.0Goals for %0 for, 1 against
50.0PDO0.0% shooting + 50.0% saves
1Attempts takenhis own shot attempts

These are left plain: he has not been on the ice enough to be ranked. That takes at least 200 shot attempts with him out there, about six or seven games, and a quarter of what the busiest skater has. Over a game or two these numbers are mostly chance.

Who he played with

Forward lineGPTimeCF%xGF%Goals
Blair Betts · Darroll Powe · Zac Rinaldo24:5554.543.70-1
Claude Giroux · James van Riemsdyk · Zac Rinaldo10:270.00.00-0

The lines he spent the most time in at five-on-five, with the team's share of the shot attempts and expected goals, and the goals for and against, while they were out. The two shares are coloured as above, against the league's lines that played a fair amount together. Hover over one for its percentile.

Chances and finishing

Expected goals adds up how likely each of his shots was to go in, judged by where it came from, what kind of shot it was and whether it was a rebound. All situations, leaving out shots at an empty net. Before 2023-24 the NHL timed events less exactly, and differently from rink to rink, so expected goals for this season are rougher than for recent ones.

0Goalsnot counting empty-netters
0.1Expected goalsfrom 1 unblocked attempts
-0.1Goals above expectedgoals minus expected goals
Chances created 1.28 expected goals per 60 minutes92nd
Shot quality 12.3% chance per attempt99th
Finishing -0.1 goals above expected52ndOne season of finishing is mostly luck.

Each bar shows the share of forwards he is ahead of, among the 60 who played at least a quarter as much as the busiest in these playoffs.

00.20.40.60.81Expected 0.1Goals 0

His goals and his expected goals as the season went on. When the goals line pulls away above, he is scoring more than his chances were worth; below, less.

Where he shot from

Every attempt he took in these playoffs, in all situations, attacking the net on the right. There is a dot for each attempt, bigger for a better chance. "Show as heat map" shades the ice by where the attempts came from. Click a goal for its details.