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Centre · #16

Brendan Gaunce

Vancouver Canucks Boston Bruins Columbus Blue Jackets Minnesota Wild(traded during the season)
Age
32
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
101 kg
Born
Sudbury, CAN
Draft
2012, round 1, #26 (VAN)

Career · 10 seasons

Games
214
Goals
15
Points
35
TOI per game
10:48
xGF% (5v5)
46.1%
Goals above expected
−9.4
ShowAll teamsVancouver CanucksBoston BruinsColumbus Blue JacketsMinnesota Wild

Season by season

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

2015–16VAN20101−912:46342.9%03.846.5%
2016–17VAN57055−29:29510.0%03.448.2%
2017–18VAN37426013:19557.3%15.045.0%
2018–19VAN3123+37:37250.0%00.134.0%
2019–20BOS1011+19:100–00.113.4%
After a break: 2021–22CBJ30527+28:064411.4%04.852.5%
2022–23CBJ5011−110:2890.0%00.642.1%
2023–24CBJ24224−711:45248.3%02.645.3%
2024–25MIN12011−49:42110.0%00.932.5%
2025–26CBJ25246−111:54296.9%03.147.5%
Total4 teams214152035−1810:482595.8%124.446.1%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200
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Player card

Model-based

How 10 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.3916th pct
  • Assists /600.5215th pct
  • ixG /600.6335th pct
  • Goals above expected−9.415th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.1%26th pct
  • CF% (5v5)48.4%45th pct
  • Relative xGF%+0.869th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.496th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game10:4821st pct
  • PP time share1.9%17th pct
  • Offensive zone starts33.7%11th pct
  • Quality of competition23.3%22nd 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. Michael McCarron0.92
  2. Matt HendricksEDM/WPG0.88
  3. Steve OttDET/MTL0.88
  4. Austin WatsonNSH/OTT0.87
  5. Byron FroeseMTL0.87
  6. Noah Philp0.86

Faceoffs

How often Gaunce wins the draw over 10 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 2002+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

52.1%

518–477 · below the 2002 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

51.7%

Opponents won 49.6% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.4% against them.

Wins above average

+17

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

Draws per game

5.8

995 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

59%184 · +1.657%135 · +1.740%94 · +0.638%47 · +0.561%28 · +1.647%43 · +2.051%41 · −0.754%219 · +2.650%204 · +2.8Attacking 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 zone50.2% 115–114
  • Neutral zone53.6% 184–159
  • Defensive zone51.8% 219–204

By strength

  • Even strength51.7% 462–432
  • Power play55.6% 5–4
  • Shorthanded55.4% 51–41

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +12 after a win, −21 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.9 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2015–1610745.8%44.8%
2016–1716451.2%50.4%
2017–188445.2%46.4%
2018–191361.5%60.6%
2019–2010.0%1.8%
2021–2212652.4%52.5%
2022–235658.9%55.4%
2023–2418253.8%53.5%
2024–258148.1%47.7%
2025–2618156.9%57.1%

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.

−9.4 goals above expected

051015202550100150200Game

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 speed35.5 km/h41st pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2428th pct
  • Hardest shot133.6 km/h37th pct
  • Distance skated72 km26th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.3%3rd 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

35.5 km/h30th pct

▼ −1.4 km/h since 2024–25

33343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.9 km/h, 47th percentile (30 games)2022–23: 34.4 km/h, 8th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.3 km/h, 6th percentile (24 games)2024–25: 36.9 km/h, 78th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.5 km/h, 30th percentile (25 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

4.845th pct

▼ −2.9 since 2024–25

24681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 4.0, 35th percentile (30 games)2022–23: 4.6, 46th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 4.5, 43rd percentile (24 games)2024–25: 7.7, 73rd percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 4.8, 45th percentile (25 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.5 km7th pct

▼ −0.7 km since 2024–25

1414.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.8 km, 58th percentile (30 games)2022–23: 16.1 km, 86th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 15.4 km, 42nd percentile (24 games)2024–25: 15.2 km, 24th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.5 km, 7th percentile (25 games)

Hardest shot

133.6 km/h25th pct

▲ +3.4 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 144.6 km/h, 55th percentile (30 games)2022–23: 118.7 km/h, 0th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 139.1 km/h, 36th percentile (24 games)2024–25: 130.2 km/h, 11th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 133.6 km/h, 25th percentile (25 games)

Offensive-zone time

37.3%4th pct

▲ +2.4 points since 2024–25

30%35%40%45%50%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.3%, 10th percentile (30 games)2022–23: 38.7%, 14th percentile (5 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.6%, 24th percentile (24 games)2024–25: 34.9%, 0th percentile (12 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 37.3%, 4th percentile (25 games)