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Centre · #19

David Gustafsson

Winnipeg Jets
Age
26
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Tingsryd, SWE
Draft
2018, round 2, #60 (WPG)

Career · 2019–20 to 2024–25

Games
149
Goals
6
Points
20
TOI per game
8:48
xGF% (5v5)
47.5%
Goals above expected
−3.4

Season by season

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

2019–20WPG22101−26:09425.0%00.421.7%
2020–21WPG4000−15:4910.0%00.031.7%
2021–22WPG200002:280–00.053.5%
2022–23WPG46066+210:06450.0%03.547.2%
2023–24WPG39347+19:162711.1%02.743.6%
2024–25WPG36246+108:59306.7%02.862.6%
Total1 team14961420+108:481075.6%09.447.5%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.520406080100120140
5m6m7m8m9m10m11m12m20406080100120140Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2019–20 to 2024–25 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

12th 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 /600.276th pct
  • Assists /600.6423rd pct
  • ixG /600.434th pct
  • Goals above expected−3.434th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)47.5%35th pct
  • CF% (5v5)47.6%35th pct
  • Relative xGF%−4.120th pct
  • Penalty diff /600.3784th pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game8:483rd pct
  • PP time share1.0%6th pct
  • Offensive zone starts36.0%14th pct
  • Quality of competition22.9%8th 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. Jansen HarkinsWPG/ANA0.94
  2. Rasmus KupariWPG0.94
  3. Fredrik OlofssonCOL0.92
  4. Gaetan Haas0.89
  5. Riley SheahanEDM0.88
  6. Riley Nash0.88

Faceoffs

How often Gustafsson wins the draw over 2019–20 to 2024–25, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1129+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

51.2%

353–336 · below the 1129 draws of a regular

Against an average centre

50.9%

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

Wins above average

+6

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

Draws per game

5.0

689 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

46%152 · 0.057%92 · +1.134%35 · +10.661%33 · +0.744%16 · +1.758%38 · +0.430%23 · +1.460%191 · +0.844%109 · +2.1Attacking 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 zone50.4% 64–63
  • Neutral zone48.1% 126–136
  • Defensive zone54.3% 163–137

By strength

  • Even strength52.6% 328–295
  • Power play44.4% 4–5
  • Shorthanded36.8% 21–36

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +3 after a win, −19 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
2019–206354.0%53.0%
2020–212152.4%53.3%
2021–2240.0%1.2%
2022–2320949.3%49.0%
2023–2419454.6%54.4%
2024–2519850.0%49.4%

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.

−3.4 goals above expected

024681020406080100120140Game

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

−80−60−40−200+20+40+60+80+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 speed35.6 km/h43rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph3435th pct
  • Hardest shot135.8 km/h40th pct
  • Distance skated85 km30th pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.4%27th 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

35.6 km/h31st pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2023–24

303234363821–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 32.5 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 36.1 km/h, 53rd percentile (46 games)2023–24: 36.3 km/h, 66th percentile (39 games)2024–25: 35.6 km/h, 31st percentile (36 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

6.361st pct

▼ −1.0 since 2023–24

05101521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 12.2, 93rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 10.2, 88th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 7.3, 71st percentile (39 games)2024–25: 6.3, 61st percentile (36 games)

Distance skated per 60

15.8 km62nd pct

▼ −0.0 km since 2023–24

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 15.3 km, 33rd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 15.6 km, 64th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (39 games)2024–25: 15.8 km, 62nd percentile (36 games)

Hardest shot

135.8 km/h26th pct

▼ −17.4 km/h since 2023–24

608010012014016018021–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 81.5 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 140.8 km/h, 39th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 153.3 km/h, 90th percentile (39 games)2024–25: 135.8 km/h, 26th percentile (36 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.4%29th pct

▲ +1.7 points since 2023–24

36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–252021–22: 39.5%, 22nd percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)2022–23: 40.2%, 28th percentile (46 games)2023–24: 38.6%, 15th percentile (39 games)2024–25: 40.4%, 29th percentile (36 games)