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Michael Amadio

Forty-eight per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet, the highest share of any forward on the club.

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 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	441	68	71	139	+2	89	6	0	8	553	12.3	12:25

This Season So Far

The 2025-26 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

11 goals and 16 assists in 72 games — 27 points at 14:06 a night, plus-12, with 2 game-winners and 18 penalty minutes.

50.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 54th percentile. His ice went 31-27 against an expectation of 32.63-31.55 — a fourth-line result almost exactly on top of a fourth-line expectation.

The Finesse Game

85 attempts at a median of 22 feet with 48 per cent of them from inside 20 feet, the highest share of any forward on this roster. He is a net-front player on a checking line and he converted at 12.9 per cent doing it.

16 assists in 72 games. The passing is functional and nothing more; he is on the ice to be in the right place, not to create the play.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 206 and a sound, unspectacular body. He forechecks properly, he finishes the check he is supposed to finish, and he does not go looking for one that is not there.

18 penalty minutes in 72 games. He is trusted on the penalty kill and the discipline is a large part of why.

The Intangibles

A third-round pick of Los Angeles in 2014 who has played for four organisations and won a Stanley Cup in Vegas in 2023.

441 games and 139 points, almost all of it in a bottom-six role, and he has been useful in every one of them. He is 29 and knows exactly what he is.

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
37% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 10th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He is a net-front player on a checking line and he converted at 12.9 per cent doing it.”
penalty-killera strength· trusted a man short
“He is trusted on the penalty kill and the discipline is a large part of why.”
playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“The passing is functional and nothing more; he is on the ice to be in the right place, not to create the play.”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“He forechecks properly, he finishes the check he is supposed to finish, and he does not go looking for one that is not there.”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 891 minutes

Expected goals: 50.8%; 61st pct
Shot attempts: 48.7%; 40th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 31 for, 27 against. Expected: 32.6 and 31.6.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

36th

Numbers

61st

The numbers rank him 25 points above where the report does. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 70 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, 2024-25 · 72 games

Top speed: 22.7 mph; 70th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.11 a game
Distance: 2.35 miles a game
Hardest shot: 89.4 mph; 75th 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.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 891 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, 2024-25

The club: OTT took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.8% — 0.6 above the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 891 minutes at five-on-five — 44th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Shane Pinto	51.8%	49.6%	53.9%
Jake Sanderson	48.4%	52.2%	52.7%
Thomas Chabot	51.8%	50.3%	52.8%

51.8% together, 49.6% for him apart and 53.9% for Pinto 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

125 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 10 of them goals. His median goal came from 23 feet. 48% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 18% from beyond forty.