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2026-27 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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Shane Pinto

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Shane Pinto

Ottawa Senators Center #12

23 goals, and the 86th percentile from the third line.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2020-21OTT12167+610000119.112:31
2021-22OTT50110200050.012:57
2022-23OTT82201535-211850215812.715:59
2023-24OTT4191827+9144011108.218:07
2024-25OTT70211637+102613512716.517:33
2025-26OTT72232346+64252215714.618:43
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—2827479153+101121551056813.017:11

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

23 goals and 23 assists in 72 games — 46 points, plus-6, at 18:43 a night with 42 penalty minutes.

The Finesse Game

251 unblocked attempts, 25 goals, median 26 feet with 40 per cent from inside 20.

That is a good conversion from reasonable ice and a career-best season. 74 goals in 282 career games is a genuine middle-6 scoring rate.

23 assists is ordinary and nobody minds.

The Physical Game

6-3, 206, and he plays a hard two-way game. 42 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

53.8 per cent of the expected goals, 81st percentile — against only 49.9 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 44-42 in his favour, one of the better margins on a club whose goaltending cost it 33.

9 points in his last 10, 5 of them goals. He is 25, a 32nd overall pick, and precisely the kind of third-line centre a contender needs.

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.

  • hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best

    30% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th 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 · 997 minutes

Expected goals
53.8%
81st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.9%
57th pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 44 for, 42 against. Expected: 39.0 and 33.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted
Report
82nd
Numbers
81st

The two rank him within 1 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 — 78 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 · 72 games

Top speed
22.6 mph
68th pct

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

Bursts over 20 mph
1.14 a game

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

Distance
2.92 miles a game

skated, all strengths

Hardest shot
90.6 mph
86th pct

one shot; the league's average best is 83.6

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

9

points in his last 10 games — 5 goals, 4 assists, 28 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 997 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 53.8% — 1.1 below the club he did it on.
The role
First line, 997 minutes at five-on-five — 60th percentile in ice time.

With and without

TeammateTogetherHim apartMate apart
Michael Amadio53.3%55.3%49.9%
Artem Zub52.9%54.7%51.7%
Jake Sanderson55.7%52.4%55.9%

53.3% together, 55.3% for him apart and 49.9% for Amadio apart. Amadio was worse away from him while his own share held — the pairing was doing more for Amadio than for him.

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

251 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 25 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.