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2025-26 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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Michael Pezzetta

Toronto Maple Leafs Left Wing

No points in 25 games at under six minutes a night, and 241 penalty minutes in 200 career games.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2021-22MTL515611-7810004910.27:50
2022-23MTL637815-4770007010.09:19
2023-24MTL613912+459001427.17:48
2024-25MTL25000-224000140.05:56
2025-26 so far—————————————
Career—200152338-92410011758.68:03

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

No goals and no assists in 25 games for Montreal — 24 penalty minutes at 5:56 a night, which is among the least ice time of anybody in this edition.

There is no five-on-five sample worth reporting. He was a healthy scratch for most of the season on a club that made the playoffs.

The Finesse Game

14 shot attempts in 25 games and no goals. 38 points in 200 career NHL games is the whole offensive record.

The puck skills are below NHL standard and the deployment says so. He is not on the ice in any situation where the puck is expected to reach him.

The Physical Game

6-1 and 222 and this is the entire player. He hits extremely hard, he fights, and he is not moved from in front of a net.

241 penalty minutes in 200 career games. He crosses the line deliberately and the reason a club dresses him is that everybody on the other bench knows he will.

The Intangibles

A sixth-round pick of Montreal in 2016, and four NHL seasons on from that, most of it in a role that is disappearing from the league.

He is 27 and Toronto signed him in the summer. On a roster that lost Ryan Reaves in the same off-season, he is the replacement for a job the club evidently still believes in.

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.

  • a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed

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.

  • punishinga strength· finishes checks; hurts people legally

    “He hits extremely hard, he fights, and he is not moved from in front of a net.”

  • hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand

    “He hits extremely hard, he fights, and he is not moved from in front of a net.”

  • takes-libertiesa strength· crosses the line and knows where it is

    “**241 penalty minutes in 200 career games.** He crosses the line deliberately and the reason a club dresses him is that everybody on the other bench knows he will.”

The numbers underneath

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 25 games

Top speed
21.8 mph
29th pct

fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2

Bursts over 20 mph
1.44 a game

how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes

Distance
1.00 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
87.4 mph
63rd pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.9

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 with MTL · 130 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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

25 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 0 of them goals. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 44% from beyond forty.