Shane Pinto

Last Season

Twenty-three goals and 23 assists in 72 games — 46 points, plus-six, at 18:43 a night with 42 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

Two hundred and fifty-one unblocked attempts, 25 goals, median 26 feet with 40 per cent from inside twenty.

That is a good conversion from reasonable ice and a career-best season. Seventy-four goals in 282 career games is a genuine middle-six scoring rate.

Twenty-three assists is ordinary and nobody minds.

The Physical Game

Six foot three, 206, and he plays a hard two-way game. Forty-two penalty minutes. He wins faceoffs, kills penalties on the fourth-ranked unit in the league, and is difficult to move below the goal line.

The Intangibles

Fifty-four point eight per cent of the expected goals, 86th percentile — against only 50.2 per cent of the shot attempts, 59th.

That split is a forward whose line concedes volume and gives up almost nothing dangerous, which on the best defensive team in the league is exactly the assignment.

The goals went 51-38 in his favour, one of the better margins on a club whose goaltending cost it thirty-three.

Nine points in his last ten, five of them goals. He is 25, a thirty-second overall pick, and precisely the kind of third-line centre a contender needs.