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Shane Pinto
Ottawa Senators Center
21 goals in 70 games at a 16.5 per cent conversion, with 3 shorthanded goals and 5 game-winners.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | OTT | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 | +6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 | 12:31 |
| 2021-22 | OTT | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 | 12:57 |
| 2022-23 | OTT | 82 | 20 | 15 | 35 | -21 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 158 | 12.7 | 15:59 |
| 2023-24 | OTT | 41 | 9 | 18 | 27 | +9 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 110 | 8.2 | 18:07 |
| 2024-25 | OTT | 70 | 21 | 16 | 37 | +10 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 127 | 16.5 | 17:33 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 210 | 51 | 56 | 107 | +4 | 70 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 411 | 12.4 | 16:39 |
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
21 goals and 16 assists in 70 games — 37 points at 17:33 a night, plus-10, with 3 shorthanded goals and 5 game-winners on 127 shots.
52.0 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 71st percentile. His ice went 34-28 against an expectation of 34.83-32.20: he beat the chances against by four goals and matched them going the other way. A 16.5 per cent shooting percentage is well above what the shot locations predict and is unlikely to hold.
The Finesse Game
127 attempts at a median of 26 feet with 38 per cent from inside 20. He shoots from where goals are scored and he gets there by winning the puck rather than by receiving it.
The passing is the weakest part of the game — 16 assists in 70 games is a centre who finishes plays rather than starting them. He wins the draw that begins the shift and that is a large part of why he is trusted a man short.
The Physical Game
6-3 and 206 and genuinely strong on a puck. He is difficult to separate from it below the goal line and he is a real forechecking presence at NHL pace.
26 penalty minutes in 70 games is a heavy player who does not foul, which is unusual and valuable. He is not nasty and he does not look for the extra shove.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick in 2019, 210 games, and a career that lost most of two seasons — one to injury and one to a 41-game suspension he served in 2023-24 for a gambling violation.
He came back and scored 21 goals. He is 24, he takes the hardest defensive draws on the club, and the whole of the middle six is built to let him play that way.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 929 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52%
- 71st pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.1%
- 43rd pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 34 for, 28 against. Expected: 34.8 and 32.2.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 points of one another. 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.
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 — 77 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 929 minutes at five-on-five
- Ridly Greig52%
- Nick Cousins26%
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 52.0% — 1.8 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 929 minutes at five-on-five — 49th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Amadio | 51.2% | 52.8% | 48.8% |
| Ridly Greig | 51.2% | 52.8% | 47.7% |
| Jake Sanderson | 51.7% | 52.2% | 51.3% |
51.2% together, 52.8% for him apart and 48.8% for Amadio 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
200 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 21 of them goals. His median goal came from 17 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 17% from beyond forty.