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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.
52.8 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 71st percentile. His ice went 34-36 against an expectation of 35.72-31.93: 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.
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
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
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
32% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 7th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“He wins the draw that begins the shift and that is a large part of why he is trusted a man short.”
“He wins the draw that begins the shift and that is a large part of why he is trusted a man short.”
“He is difficult to separate from it below the goal line and he is a real forechecking presence at NHL pace.”
“He is difficult to separate from it below the goal line and he is a real forechecking presence at NHL pace.”
“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 is not nasty and he does not look for the extra shove.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 929 minutes
- Expected goals
- 52.8%
- 76th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49%
- 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, 36 against. Expected: 35.7 and 31.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 0 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 70 games
- Top speed
- 22.6 mph
- 68th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.56 a game
- Distance
- 2.86 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.1 mph
- 73rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
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 · 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 52.8% — 2.6 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 | 51.8% | 53.9% | 49.6% |
| Ridly Greig | 52.5% | 53.1% | 46.0% |
| Jake Sanderson | 51.7% | 53.5% | 51.7% |
51.8% together, 53.9% for him apart and 49.6% 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.