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Centre · #49

Rhett Gardner

Dallas Stars Philadelphia Flyers(traded during the season)
Age
30
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Moose Jaw, CAN
Draft
2016, round 4, #116 (DAL)

Career · 4 seasons

Games
41
Goals
1
Points
2
TOI per game
9:45
xGF% (5v5)
46.5%
Goals above expected
−1.4
ShowAll teamsDallas StarsPhiladelphia Flyers

Season by season

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

2019–20DAL8000010:0880.0%00.353.3%
2020–21DAL28112−99:58234.3%02.144.0%
2021–22DAL4000−18:060–00.049.6%
After a break: 2023–24PHI100007:280–00.055.1%
Total2 teams41112−109:45313.2%02.446.5%

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)
00.050.10.150.210152025303540
9m10m10m11m10152025303540Game

Player card

Model-based

How 4 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

7th 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 /600.152nd pct
  • Assists /600.151st pct
  • ixG /600.371st pct
  • Goals above expected−1.447th pct

Play-driving

4th line
  • xGF% (5v5)46.5%28th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.7%18th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.114th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3077th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game9:456th pct
  • PP time share2.1%15th pct
  • Offensive zone starts51.1%39th pct
  • Quality of competition22.3%1st 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. Connor Bunnaman0.96
  2. Rasmus Kupari0.93
  3. Boris KatchoukTBL0.90
  4. Ryan MacInnisCBJ0.89
  5. Michael Dal Colle0.89
  6. Gaetan Haas0.88

Faceoffs

How often Gardner wins the draw over 4 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 715+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

45.2%

75–91 · below the 715 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

44.7%

Opponents won 49.5% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.5% against them.

Wins above average

−9

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

Draws per game

5.0

166 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

59%44 · +1.233%30 · +2.340%10 · +4.355%11 · −0.227%11 · −2.056%9 · +1.464%11 · +0.353%17 · +0.822%23 · +1.2Attacking 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 zone35.0% 14–26
  • Neutral zone54.7% 47–39
  • Defensive zone35.0% 14–26

By strength

  • Even strength44.4% 72–90
  • Power play100.0% 1–0
  • Shorthanded66.7% 2–1

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +11 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
2019–205347.2%45.9%
2020–2110043.0%43.2%
2021–221145.5%42.6%
2023–242100.0%96.8%

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.

−1.4 goals above expected

00.511.522.5510152025303540Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed33.4 km/h7th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph13rd pct
  • Hardest shot5.8 km/h1st pct
  • Distance skated2 km2nd pct
  • Offensive-zone time39.9%22nd 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

33.4 km/h1st pct

▲ +0.7 km/h since 2021–22

3234363821–2222–2323–242022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 32.7 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 33.4 km/h, 1st percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

8.077th pct

▲ +0.6 since 2021–22

24681021–2222–2323–242022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 7.4, 70th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 8.0, 77th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

18.4 km100th pct

▲ +0.6 km since 2021–22

14151617181921–2222–2323–242022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 17.8 km, 100th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 18.4 km, 100th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

5.8 km/h0th pct

▼ −91.7 km/h since 2021–22

05010015020021–2222–2323–242022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 97.5 km/h, 0th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 5.8 km/h, 0th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

39.9%26th pct

▼ −6.7 points since 2021–22

38%40%42%44%46%48%21–2222–2323–242022–23: no NHL games2021–22: 46.6%, 97th percentile (4 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.9%, 26th percentile (1 games, too few to rank reliably)