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Defence · #21

Kaiden Guhle

Age
24
Shoots
Left
Height
191 cm
Weight
92 kg
Born
Edmonton, CAN
Draft
2020, round 1, #16 (MTL)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
208
Goals
18
Points
69
TOI per game
20:36
xGF% (5v5)
44.9%
Goals above expected
+4.3

Season by season

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

2022–23MTL4441418−1920:31488.3%02.841.5%
2023–24MTL7061622−820:51956.3%04.643.7%
2024–25MTL5561218+621:11718.5%03.646.7%
2025–26MTL392911+519:28405.0%02.648.4%
Total1 team208185169−1620:362547.1%013.744.9%

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)
00.20.40.60.8150100150200
17m18m19m20m21m22m23m50100150200Game

Player card

How 2022–23 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

38th 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 /600.2570th pct
  • Assists /600.7161st pct
  • ixG /600.1958th pct
  • Shots /603.5644th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)44.9%16th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.2%13th pct
  • Relative xGF%−1.837th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.7915th pct

Usage

1st pair
  • TOI per game20:3676th pct
  • PP time share5.1%52nd pct
  • PK time share38.3%67th pct
  • Quality of competition25.4%98th 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.

+4.3 goals above expected

0510152050100150200Game

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

−15−10−50+5+10+15+20

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 speed36.0 km/h78th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph2859th pct
  • Hardest shot141.0 km/h35th pct
  • Distance skated168 km41st pct
  • Offensive-zone time40.3%28th 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

36.0 km/h72nd pct

▲ +0.0 km/h since 2024–25

323436384022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 39.0 km/h, 99th percentile (44 games)2023–24: 36.6 km/h, 84th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 36.0 km/h, 71st percentile (55 games)2025–26: 36.0 km/h, 72nd percentile (39 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.269th pct

▼ −0.6 since 2024–25

024622–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 5.3, 99th percentile (44 games)2023–24: 2.8, 82nd percentile (70 games)2024–25: 2.8, 85th percentile (55 games)2025–26: 2.2, 69th percentile (39 games)

Distance skated per 60

13.3 km29th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

1313.213.413.613.81414.222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 14.0 km, 78th percentile (44 games)2023–24: 13.8 km, 68th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 13.3 km, 23rd percentile (55 games)2025–26: 13.3 km, 29th percentile (39 games)

Hardest shot

141.0 km/h19th pct

▼ −9.3 km/h since 2024–25

13514014515015516022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 151.2 km/h, 51st percentile (44 games)2023–24: 157.8 km/h, 83rd percentile (70 games)2024–25: 150.4 km/h, 64th percentile (55 games)2025–26: 141.0 km/h, 19th percentile (39 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.3%29th pct

▲ +0.3 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 37.8%, 7th percentile (44 games)2023–24: 38.7%, 14th percentile (70 games)2024–25: 40.0%, 25th percentile (55 games)2025–26: 40.3%, 29th percentile (39 games)