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Vinnie Hinostroza
Colorado Avalanche Center #24
A small, quick veteran winger who has spent 11 years being the thirteenth forward somewhere.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-16 | CHI | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 | 8:41 |
| 2016-17 | CHI | 49 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 76 | 7.9 | 11:59 |
| 2017-18 | CHI | 50 | 7 | 18 | 25 | +5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 8.1 | 13:49 |
| 2018-19 | ARI | 72 | 16 | 23 | 39 | -4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 152 | 10.5 | 15:16 |
| 2019-20 | ARI | 68 | 5 | 17 | 22 | +1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 132 | 3.8 | 13:06 |
| 2020-21 | FLA/CHI | 26 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 12.1 | 12:16 |
| 2021-22 | BUF | 62 | 13 | 12 | 25 | -11 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 92 | 14.1 | 13:52 |
| 2022-23 | BUF | 26 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | 5.3 | 12:36 |
| 2023-24 | PIT | 14 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 3.7 | 9:45 |
| 2024-25 | NSH/MIN | 38 | 5 | 5 | 10 | +2 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 10.4 | 13:01 |
| 2025-26 | MIN/FLA | 65 | 6 | 12 | 18 | -12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 65 | 9.2 | 10:56 |
| 2026-27 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 477 | 65 | 114 | 179 | -25 | 144 | 8 | 0 | 12 | 755 | 8.6 | 12:57 |
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
6 goals and 18 points in 65 games, minus-12, on under 11 minutes a night. The minus-12 is the worst on a team where almost everyone was strongly positive, which is the number that stands out.
The Finesse Game
The speed is the asset and always has been. He is quick through the neutral zone and can carry a puck into the zone, which is more than most fourth-liners offer.
65 shots in 65 games is a modest rate, and 65 goals in 477 career games is the honest measure — he creates chances and does not finish many.
The Physical Game
5-10 and 183, and he plays a light game. He does not win pucks, avoids the interior, and is easily removed along the wall.
The Intangibles
6 organisations and a career of being useful enough to sign and replaceable enough to move. There is no shame in that and it is what he is.
At 32, on a deep team, the minus-12 in a fourth-line role is difficult to defend, and it was not a sheltered one: 39.2 per cent of his five-on-five shifts started in the attacking zone, the 12th percentile. He is the forward who comes out of the lineup when everyone is healthy.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 676 minutes
- Expected goals
- 38.3%
- 1st pct
- Shot attempts
- 43.6%
- 6th 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: 24 for, 35 against. Expected: 21.5 and 34.6.
The eye and the numbers
SightedThe report ranks him 43 points above where the numbers do. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
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 — 71 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 · 65 games
- Top speed
- 23.6 mph
- 96th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 3.14 a game
- Distance
- 1.90 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 83.7 mph
- 41st 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 83.6
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
6
points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 4 assists, 17 shots
Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.
Usual linemates
2025-26 with MIN · 473 minutes at five-on-five
- Ryan Hartman38%
- Nico Sturm21%
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
- FLA took 50.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 38.3% — 12.1 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 676 minutes at five-on-five — 28th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Hartman | 44.0% | 36.3% | 54.8% |
| Marcus Foligno | 45.6% | 35.6% | 53.1% |
| Jared Spurgeon | 44.3% | 36.5% | 52.6% |
44.0% together, 36.3% for him apart and 54.8% for Hartman apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Hartman and did not follow 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
103 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 18 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.