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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

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Mason Shaw

Minnesota Wild Center

A relentless small forward whose career has been decided by his knees rather than his game.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22MIN3000-2500070.08:59
2022-23MIN5971017-179000927.611:17
2023-24MIN20123034000214.88:11
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—8281220-31180001206.710:27

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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.

2023-24

1 goal and 3 points in 20 games on 8 minutes a night, with 34 penalty minutes — a striking number for that little ice time, and entirely in character. He has not played an NHL game in the 2 seasons since.

The Finesse Game

Modest but not absent. He is a quick, busy forechecker with decent hands in a scramble, and he was a genuine producer in junior before the injuries. 21 shots in 20 games is an aggressive rate for a fourth-liner.

The Physical Game

5-10 and 184, and he plays far above it — he finishes checks on much larger players, gets into scrums, and takes penalties that come from effort rather than carelessness.

The knees are the story of his career. He has torn the same ligament multiple times, which has cost him years and is the reason a player with this motor has only 82 NHL games at 27.

The Intangibles

Everybody who has coached him says the same thing about his compete, and the record supports it — he has come back from injuries that ended other careers.

The projection cannot be separated from the medical history. When available he is a useful, irritating fourth-line forward. Availability has never been something he could offer.