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Defence · #2

Brendan Guhle

Buffalo Sabres Anaheim Ducks(traded during the season)
Age
29
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
89 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
2015, round 2, #51 (BUF)

Career · 5 seasons

Games
65
Goals
4
Points
14
TOI per game
16:51
xGF% (5v5)
45.9%
Goals above expected
−0.8

Season by season

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

2016–17BUF3000+116:2140.0%00.151.3%
2017–18BUF18055−618:06370.0%01.648.5%
2018–19BUF2000+111:4110.0%00.09.8%
2018–19ANA6011−316:08140.0%00.957.1%
2018–19All teams8011−215:01150.0%01.048.9%
2019–20ANA30448−217:043910.3%11.740.9%
After a break: 2021–22ANA6000014:4060.0%00.545.6%
Total2 teams6541014−916:511014.0%14.845.9%

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)
00.10.20.30.4102030405060
15m16m17m18m19m102030405060Game

Player card

How 5 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

29th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

2nd pair
  • Goals /600.2266th pct
  • Assists /600.5536th pct
  • ixG /600.2677th pct
  • Shots /605.5383rd pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)45.9%18th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.8%30th pct
  • Relative xGF%−3.317th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.5928th pct

Usage

3rd pair
  • TOI per game16:5139th pct
  • PP time share14.0%60th pct
  • PK time share12.4%23rd pct
  • Quality of competition23.6%28th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

Finishing

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.

−0.8 goals above expected

012345102030405060Game

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

−20−100+10+20+30

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 speed35.2 km/h63rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph836th pct
  • Hardest shot139.7 km/h23rd pct
  • Distance skated20 km13th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.4%6th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

35.2 km/h51st pct

2021–22 only

3434.53535.53636.521–222021–22: 35.2 km/h, 51st percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

5.598th pct

2021–22 only

0246821–222021–22: 5.5, 98th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km29th pct

2021–22 only

1313.213.413.613.81414.221–222021–22: 13.3 km, 29th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

139.7 km/h6th pct

2021–22 only

13514014515015516021–222021–22: 139.7 km/h, 6th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

38.4%6th pct

2021–22 only

36%38%40%42%44%21–222021–22: 38.4%, 6th percentile (6 games, too few to rank reliably)