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Adam Gaudette
San Jose Sharks Right Wing
Nineteen goals on 90 shots — a 21.1 per cent conversion, the highest of any player in this edition.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 301 | 46 | 50 | 96 | -25 | 100 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 389 | 11.8 | 11:12 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
19 goals and 7 assists in 81 games for Ottawa — 26 points at 10:25 a night, plus-12, with 3 power-play goals and 4 game-winners on only 90 shots.
A 21.1 per cent conversion, which is the highest of any player in this edition who took fifty shots. Nineteen goals at ten minutes a night is a genuinely useful season and the method underneath it will not repeat: his previous career high was 12.
The Finesse Game
90 attempts and 19 goals. He goes to the net and converts what arrives there, and the volume is the problem — ninety shots in a full season is a fourth-line number.
7 assists in 81 games. There is no creation and there has not been since his junior career; he is a finisher on a checking line, which is an unusual and slightly awkward thing to be.
The Physical Game
6-1 and 190 and honest. He forechecks properly, he goes to the paint, and he does not initiate much beyond that.
12 penalty minutes in 81 games is a very low rate. He is disciplined and he kills penalties, and the physical game is functional rather than an asset.
The Intangibles
A fifth-round pick in 2015 out of Northeastern who won the Hobey Baker Award, and then spent five years being waived, traded and sent down — 301 NHL games across five organisations.
He is 29 and signed with San Jose in the summer after a career-best year in Ottawa. On a club that scored 204 goals, a man who converts at any rate at all is worth a look.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 713 minutes
- Expected goals
- 47.6%
- 28th pct
- Shot attempts
- 49.8%
- 50th pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 22 for, 35 against. Expected: 23.5 and 25.9.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 3 points of one another. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason.
Both bars are percentiles among the 637 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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 with OTT · 713 minutes at five-on-five
- Tim Stützle30%
- Matthew Highmoreoff the roster23%
- Nick Cousins23%
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, 2024-25
- The club
- OTT took 50.2% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 47.6% — 2.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Fourth line, 713 minutes at five-on-five — 29th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Kleven | 39.6% | 52.1% | 46.2% |
| Thomas Chabot | 56.9% | 43.3% | 52.3% |
| Tim Stützle | 50.5% | 46.4% | 53.9% |
39.6% together, 52.1% for him apart and 46.2% for Kleven apart. Both were better apart than together — the pairing was doing neither of them any favours.
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
134 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 19 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 16% from beyond forty.