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Michael Amadio

54 per cent of his shots from 18 feet, from a fourth-round pick.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	LAK	37	4	4	8	-2	8	1	0	0	28	14.3	9:19
2018-19	LAK	43	6	7	13	-1	6	0	0	0	37	16.2	10:12
2019-20	LAK	68	6	10	16	-11	10	0	0	0	99	6.1	13:01
2020-21	LAK/OTT	25	0	3	3	-3	4	0	0	0	24	0.0	12:33
2021-22	TOR/VGK	56	11	7	18	+1	15	0	0	2	64	17.2	12:10
2022-23	VGK	67	16	11	27	+2	12	1	0	2	99	16.2	12:13
2023-24	VGK	73	14	13	27	+4	16	3	0	2	117	12.0	13:24
2024-25	OTT	72	11	16	27	+12	18	1	0	2	85	12.9	14:06
2025-26	OTT	81	15	20	35	+13	18	0	0	2	96	15.6	16:07
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	522	83	91	174	+15	107	6	0	10	649	12.8	12:59

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.

Last Season

15 goals and 20 assists in 81 games — 35 points, plus-13, at 16:07 a night with 18 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

The shot chart is the best on the club. 54 per cent of his unblocked attempts came from inside 20 feet, median 18, and 15 goals came from only 96 shots on goal.

That is a very high conversion earned from very good ice, and it is a career year at 30. 174 points in 522 career games is the honest rate.

20 assists is ordinary.

The Physical Game

6-1, 206, and he forechecks properly without being punishing. 18 penalty minutes in 81 games.

The Intangibles

52.1 per cent of the expected goals, 71st percentile, with the chances 43.9 to 40.4 in his favour and the goals 50 for and 48 against, a shade to the good.

Plus-13 on a team whose goaltending was 33 goals worse than the chances predicted.

8 points in his last 10, 4 of them goals. He is 30, a 90th overall pick with a Stanley Cup from Vegas, and precisely the sort of player a first-place defensive team is full of and nobody outside the city can name.

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

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
81 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
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,168 minutes

Expected goals: 52.1%; 71st pct
Shot attempts: 50.5%; 64th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 50 for, 48 against. Expected: 43.9 and 40.4.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

49th

Numbers

71st

The numbers rank him 22 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 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, 2025-26 · 81 games

Top speed: 22.3 mph; 52nd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.30 a game
Distance: 2.63 miles a game
Hardest shot: 87.7 mph; 67th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 4 goals, 4 assists, 13 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1168 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, 2025-26

The club: OTT took 54.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 52.1% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: First line, 1,168 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Shane Pinto	53.3%	49.9%	55.3%
Artem Zub	49.4%	54.9%	54.0%
Jake Sanderson	53.7%	51.0%	57.3%

53.3% together, 49.9% for him apart and 55.3% for Pinto apart. He was worse away from Pinto, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Pinto did.

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

141 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 15 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 55% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 14% from beyond forty.