Roope Hintz

55 per cent of his shots from inside 20 feet, and the 89th percentile.

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

2018-19	DAL	58	9	13	22	-11	24	3	0	3	99	9.1	14:03
2019-20	DAL	60	19	14	33	+3	16	3	2	5	120	15.8	14:45
2020-21	DAL	41	15	28	43	+13	4	6	0	1	92	16.3	18:14
2021-22	DAL	80	37	35	72	+15	28	9	3	7	213	17.4	18:03
2022-23	DAL	73	37	38	75	+31	30	9	3	5	184	20.1	17:33
2023-24	DAL	80	30	35	65	+26	22	8	3	6	182	16.5	17:14
2024-25	DAL	76	28	39	67	+18	30	7	1	7	160	17.5	16:53
2025-26	DAL	53	15	29	44	+16	18	6	0	1	126	11.9	17:20
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	521	190	231	421	+111	172	51	12	35	1176	16.2	16:48

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 29 assists in 53 games — 44 points, plus-16, at 17:20 a night. 29 games missed.

The Finesse Game

One of the faster large men in the league — 6-3 and genuinely explosive, which is why he can play either wing or centre and be dangerous from both.

The shot chart is excellent: 55 per cent of his unblocked attempts from inside 20 feet, median 18, with only 11 per cent from beyond 40. 15 goals in 53 games from that ice is a 30-goal pace.

29 assists says the playmaking has become the larger half of him.

The Physical Game

6-3, 217, and he uses the speed rather than the weight. 18 penalty minutes. He is not physical by inclination and he does not need to be — he arrives before the check does.

The durability is the concern: 53 games, and this is the third time in 5 seasons he has missed 20 or more.

The Intangibles

55.5 per cent of the expected goals, 90th percentile — level with Robertson as the best forward mark on the club — in 678 minutes.

8 points in his last 10. He is 29, 421 points into 521 games, and comfortably the best two-way centre here.

For a club whose whole design is to defend first and finish clinically, he is the forward who does both. The only question that has ever mattered about him is how many games he plays.

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.

clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 15 goals late or in overtime, 97th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
55.5% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 49.4% for his club in the minutes he sat: +6.1, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 678 minutes

Expected goals: 55.5%; 90th pct
Shot attempts: 50.1%; 58th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 36 for, 19 against. Expected: 29.5 and 23.7.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

86th

Numbers

90th

The two rank him within 4 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

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 — 79 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 · 53 games

Top speed: 23.6 mph; 96th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 4.89 a game
Distance: 2.94 miles a game
Hardest shot: 92.0 mph; 90th 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 — 1 goals, 7 assists, 20 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 678 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: DAL took 50.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 55.5% — 5.0 above the club he did it on.
The role: 678 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Jason Robertson	56.9%	50.0%	54.7%
Miro Heiskanen	58.1%	53.4%	53.1%
Esa Lindell	57.3%	54.2%	53.6%

56.9% together, 50.0% for him apart and 54.7% for Robertson apart. He was worse away from Robertson, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Robertson 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

174 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, 11% from beyond forty.