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Right wing · #81

Adam Gaudette

Vancouver Canucks Chicago Blackhawks Ottawa Senators St. Louis Blues San Jose Sharks(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Right
Height
185 cm
Weight
86 kg
Born
Braintree, USA
Draft
2015, round 5, #149 (VAN)

Career · 8 seasons

Games
367
Goals
63
Points
121
TOI per game
11:15
xGF% (5v5)
45.0%
Goals above expected
+6.6

Season by season

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

2017–18VAN5000+212:4790.0%00.851.5%
2018–19VAN565712−810:57559.1%25.938.8%
2019–20VAN59122133−712:237516.0%119.345.0%
2020–21VAN33437−1310:54596.8%27.244.5%
2020–21CHI7134−212:12714.3%10.941.3%
2020–21All teams405611−1511:07667.6%38.043.7%
2021–22CHI8112−310:311010.0%11.136.9%
2021–22OTT504812−611:27844.8%17.642.3%
2021–22All teams585914−911:19945.3%28.741.8%
After a break: 2023–24STL200009:480–00.166.9%
2024–25OTT8119726+1210:259021.1%310.850.7%
2025–26SJS6617825−911:289617.7%612.747.1%
Total5 teams3676358121−3411:1548513.0%2756.445.0%

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)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300350
7m8m9m10m11m12m13m14m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 8 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd line

43rd 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

1st line
  • Goals /600.9276th pct
  • Assists /600.8446th pct
  • ixG /600.8266th pct
  • Goals above expected+6.685th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)45.0%19th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.2%31st pct
  • Relative xGF%−2.828th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.0635th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:1526th pct
  • PP time share24.3%57th pct
  • Offensive zone starts67.7%85th pct
  • Quality of competition23.2%17th 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. Nick LardisCHI0.83
  2. Brendan PerliniARI/CHI/EDM0.80
  3. Matthew WoodNSH0.77
  4. Nick RobertsonTOR0.75
  5. Jani NymanSEA0.75
  6. Calum RitchieNYI0.73

Faceoffs

How often Gaudette wins the draw over 8 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1529+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

44.2%

761–960 · #187 of 204 regulars, 9th percentile

Against an average centre

44.3%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

−97

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

Draws per game

5.4

1,721 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

46%352 · +0.439%191 · +2.343%461 · +1.755%56 · −0.449%99 · 0.036%50 · +0.339%94 · +0.844%91 · +2.246%327 · +1.5Attacking 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 zone41.9% 273–378
  • Neutral zone45.6% 297–354
  • Defensive zone45.6% 191–228

By strength

  • Even strength43.8% 667–856
  • Power play47.5% 87–96
  • Shorthanded46.7% 7–8

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +15 after a win, −11 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.2 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2017–181637.5%36.3%
2018–1937140.4%40.6%
2019–2045441.2%40.9%
2020–2112442.7%42.5%
2021–2212744.1%43.6%
2024–2535050.3%51.0%
2025–2627947.7%48.1%

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.

+6.6 goals above expected

020406050100150200250300350Game

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 speed37.7 km/h93rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph4341st pct
  • Hardest shot136.4 km/h49th pct
  • Distance skated195 km46th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.4%42nd 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

37.7 km/h91st pct

▲ +2.5 km/h since 2024–25

30323436384021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 34.8 km/h, 15th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 31.4 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 35.1 km/h, 19th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 37.7 km/h, 91st percentile (66 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

3.427th pct

▲ +1.1 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 3.9, 34th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 0.0, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 2.3, 10th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 3.4, 27th percentile (66 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.4 km45th pct

▲ +0.1 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 16.0 km, 72nd percentile (58 games)2023–24: 15.8 km, 68th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.4 km, 31st percentile (81 games)2025–26: 15.4 km, 45th percentile (66 games)

Hardest shot

136.4 km/h39th pct

▼ −3.4 km/h since 2024–25

8010012014016021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 141.8 km/h, 42nd percentile (58 games)2023–24: 96.9 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 139.9 km/h, 48th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 136.4 km/h, 39th percentile (66 games)

Offensive-zone time

41.4%45th pct

▼ −3.7 points since 2024–25

35%40%45%50%55%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 40.5%, 35th percentile (58 games)2023–24: 51.1%, 100th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 45.2%, 90th percentile (81 games)2025–26: 41.4%, 45th percentile (66 games)