Adam Gaudette

17 goals in 11 minutes a night, and the 10th percentile.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2017-18	VAN	5	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	9	0.0	12:47
2018-19	VAN	56	5	7	12	-8	18	0	0	1	55	9.1	10:57
2019-20	VAN	59	12	21	33	-7	37	4	0	1	75	16.0	12:23
2020-21	VAN/CHI	40	5	6	11	-15	12	0	0	0	66	7.6	11:08
2021-22	CHI/OTT	58	5	9	14	-9	17	2	0	1	94	5.3	11:19
2023-24	STL	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	—	9:48
2024-25	OTT	81	19	7	26	+12	12	3	0	4	90	21.1	10:25
2025-26	SJS	66	17	8	25	-9	20	3	0	3	96	17.7	11:28
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	367	63	58	121	-34	120	12	0	10	485	13.0	11:15

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.

Last Season

17 goals and 8 assists in 66 games — 25 points, minus-9, at 11:28 a night with 3 power-play goals.

The Finesse Game

A shooter and very little else. 144 unblocked attempts, 17 goals, median 26 feet with 44 per cent from inside 20.

17 goals in 11 and a half minutes a night is a genuinely high rate and it is the second season running he has done it.

8 assists in 66 games is close to the bottom of this edition. 121 points in 367 career games, 63 of them goals.

The Physical Game

6-1, 190, and he goes to the net without much weight to bring. 20 penalty minutes.

He is not a checker, does not win pucks, and the entire proposition is finding a soft spot and shooting from it.

The Intangibles

46.4 per cent of the expected goals, 24th percentile, and 44.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 9th percentile, across 696 minutes.

That is a poor possession season, and 17 goals in 11 minutes is a good one. Both are true and the club has to decide which it is buying.

4 points in his last 10, 3 of them goals. He is 29, a fifth-round pick, and one of the more useful 13-goal-a-year men available at a deadline.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 696 minutes

Expected goals: 46.4%; 24th pct
Shot attempts: 44.5%; 10th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 26 for, 34 against. Expected: 23.8 and 27.5.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

27th

Numbers

24th

The two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 68 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2025-26 · 66 games

Top speed: 23.4 mph; 93rd pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.65 a game
Distance: 1.83 miles a game
Hardest shot: 84.8 mph; 49th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 3 goals, 1 assists, 21 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 696 minutes at five-on-five

Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: SJS took 47.4% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.4% — 1.0 below the club he did it on.
The role: Fourth line, 696 minutes at five-on-five — 30th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Mario Ferraro	49.1%	44.9%	46.3%
Barclay Goodrow	47.8%	45.7%	40.0%
Dmitry Orlov	43.8%	47.6%	50.8%

49.1% together, 44.9% for him apart and 46.3% for Ferraro apart. He was worse away from Ferraro, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Ferraro did.

Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

144 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 17 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 44% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.