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Centre · #24

Vinnie Hinostroza

Chicago Blackhawks Arizona Coyotes Florida Panthers Buffalo Sabres Pittsburgh Penguins Nashville Predators Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Right
Height
178 cm
Weight
83 kg
Born
Chicago, USA
Draft
2012, round 6, #169 (CHI)

Career · 2015–16 to 2025–26

Games
477
Goals
65
Points
179
TOI per game
12:57
xGF% (5v5)
47.3%
Goals above expected
−7.4

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2015–16CHI7000−18:4160.0%00.535.8%
2016–17CHI496814−111:59767.9%07.948.1%
2017–18CHI5071825+513:49868.1%58.251.5%
2018–19ARI72162339−415:1615210.5%517.352.9%
2019–20ARI6851722+113:061323.8%19.347.7%
2020–21FLA9000−29:5060.0%00.438.6%
2020–21CHI174812+213:342714.8%02.846.8%
2020–21All teams264812012:163312.1%03.245.0%
2021–22BUF62131225−1113:529214.1%18.344.8%
2022–23BUF262911−112:36385.3%03.245.7%
2023–24PIT14123−39:45273.7%01.741.8%
2024–25NSH13022011:32110.0%01.153.0%
2024–25MIN25538+213:473713.5%34.552.7%
2024–25All teams385510+213:014810.4%35.652.8%
2025–26MIN483710−810:18466.5%25.638.8%
2025–26FLA17358−412:441915.8%01.434.6%
2025–26All teams6561218−1210:56659.2%26.937.5%
Total7 teams47765114179−2512:577558.6%1772.447.3%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.81100200300400
8m10m12m14m16m18m100200300400Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2015–16 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

52nd percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

3rd line
  • Goals /600.6346th pct
  • Assists /601.1174th pct
  • ixG /600.7050th pct
  • Goals above expected−7.420th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.3%36th pct
  • CF% (5v5)49.2%55th pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.037th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3784th pct

Usage

3rd line
  • TOI per game12:5748th pct
  • PP time share12.7%43rd pct
  • Offensive zone starts52.4%44th pct
  • Quality of competition24.2%59th pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Rocco GrimaldiCOL/NSH0.81
  2. Nick MerkleySJS0.77
  3. Tyson JostCOL/BUF/NSH0.75
  4. Dominik KahunCHI/PIT/BUF0.71
  5. Shane PrinceNYI0.69
  6. Matthew PoitrasBOS0.60

Faceoffs

How often Hinostroza wins the draw over 2015–16 to 2025–26, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2141+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

40.2%

234–348 · below the 2141 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

40.5%

Opponents won 50.3% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.7% against them.

Wins above average

−55

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

2.5

582 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

44%86 · +0.739%74 · +0.141%185 · +3.640%20 · +0.135%40 · +1.126%19 · −1.133%24 · +0.644%45 · +0.942%89 · +1.3Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone40.2% 104–155
  • Neutral zone38.6% 73–116
  • Defensive zone42.5% 57–77

By strength

  • Even strength39.3% 214–331
  • Power play62.5% 20–12
  • Shorthanded0.0% 0–5

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +16 after a win, −9 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.6 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2015–163240.6%41.3%
2016–1717139.8%39.4%
2017–188943.8%44.3%
2018–1910337.9%38.7%
2019–206142.6%43.0%
2020–212015.0%16.6%
2021–222842.9%44.1%
2022–23425.0%26.1%
2023–241040.0%40.8%
2024–251741.2%43.1%
2025–264746.8%46.0%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−7.4 goals above expected

020406080100200300400Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed38.0 km/h96th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph20496th pct
  • Hardest shot134.6 km/h41st pct
  • Distance skated199 km47th pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.9%19th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

38.0 km/h95th pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2024–25

34353637383921–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 37.0 km/h, 83rd percentile (62 games)2022–23: 36.9 km/h, 83rd percentile (26 games)2023–24: 36.8 km/h, 78th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 37.3 km/h, 89th percentile (38 games)2025–26: 38.0 km/h, 95th percentile (65 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

17.299th pct

▲ +4.4 since 2024–25

0510152021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 9.8, 85th percentile (62 games)2022–23: 8.8, 83rd percentile (26 games)2023–24: 14.5, 97th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 12.9, 94th percentile (38 games)2025–26: 17.2, 99th percentile (65 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.8 km99th pct

▼ −0.2 km since 2024–25

141516171821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 16.8 km, 97th percentile (62 games)2022–23: 15.8 km, 76th percentile (26 games)2023–24: 17.2 km, 99th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 17.0 km, 98th percentile (38 games)2025–26: 16.8 km, 99th percentile (65 games)

Hardest shot

134.6 km/h29th pct

▼ −1.9 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 136.7 km/h, 22nd percentile (62 games)2022–23: 132.8 km/h, 11th percentile (26 games)2023–24: 137.0 km/h, 26th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 136.5 km/h, 29th percentile (38 games)2025–26: 134.6 km/h, 29th percentile (65 games)

Offensive-zone time

39.9%22nd pct

▼ −2.9 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 39.4%, 20th percentile (62 games)2022–23: 38.6%, 13th percentile (26 games)2023–24: 40.7%, 35th percentile (14 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 42.8%, 63rd percentile (38 games)2025–26: 39.9%, 22nd percentile (65 games)