Overview
- Noel Acciari inked a two-year contract reported at a $2.8 million average annual value, the team announced Tuesday.
- The Flyers plan to use Acciari as a physical, fourth-line center who specializes in penalty killing and taking right-handed faceoffs.
- Acciari spent the past three seasons with Pittsburgh and last year posted 13 goals, 25 points, a plus-14 rating, and a 52% faceoff win rate in 67 games.
- He downplayed a past on-ice altercation with Trevor Zegras as "water under the bridge" and said he was drawn to the team’s young core and close locker-room culture.
- The signing replaces some of the veteran, defensive minutes lost when Garnet Hathaway was traded and Luke Glendening was not re-signed, and it could immediately improve the Flyers’ weak overall faceoff percentage and penalty kill.