Welcome back to the latest iteration of our Year in Review feature, where we re-visit the past season for key members of the Ottawa Senators. Here are the players we’ve profiled previously:
Evgeni Dadonov (oops, all berries!)
Today we look at the relatively small sample size of Shane Pinto’s NHL career to date and his much more substantial performance with the University of North Dakota in 2021. Whether you refer to him as the bean or the horse, you probably enjoyed his sophomore season and his debut performances in Ottawa.
By the Numbers:
Pinto silenced some of the draft day skeptics with a strong freshman season with the Fighting Hawks but needed to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump to prove himself more than a one-trick pony (pun intended).