Brendan Gaunce

214 games spread across 10 seasons, which tells you the shape of it.

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

2015-16	VAN	20	1	0	1	-9	2	0	0	0	34	2.9	12:46
2016-17	VAN	57	0	5	5	-2	33	0	0	0	51	0.0	9:29
2017-18	VAN	37	4	2	6	0	10	1	0	1	55	7.3	13:19
2018-19	VAN	3	1	2	3	+3	0	0	0	1	2	50.0	7:37
2019-20	BOS	1	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	—	9:10
2021-22	CBJ	30	5	2	7	+2	12	0	0	0	44	11.4	8:06
2022-23	CBJ	5	0	1	1	-1	2	0	0	0	9	0.0	10:28
2023-24	CBJ	24	2	2	4	-7	6	0	0	0	24	8.3	11:45
2024-25	MIN	12	0	1	1	-4	4	0	0	0	11	0.0	9:42
2025-26	CBJ	25	2	4	6	-1	12	0	2	1	29	6.9	11:54
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	214	15	20	35	-18	83	1	2	3	259	5.8	10:48

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

2 goals and 4 assists in 25 games, minus-1, at 11:54 a night. His 5-on-5 minutes were played in Columbus.

The Finesse Game

47 unblocked attempts and 2 goals in 25 games, median distance 31 feet. 35 points in 214 career games is the whole story of the offence.

He was a first-round pick in 2012 on the strength of a junior scoring record that never transferred, and the club that drafted him gave up on it a decade ago.

The Physical Game

6-2, 222, and it is the reason he still gets contracts. He is heavy on the forecheck, he protects pucks, and he can take a defensive-zone faceoff.

The Intangibles

250 5-on-5 minutes is too small to conclude much, and what there is reads mixed — 51.2 per cent of the shot attempts, which is fine, against 45.8 per cent of the expected goals, which is not.

He is 32 and this is a thirteenth-forward job he is holding by being reliable and available. 10 seasons of that is a career, and there is no dishonour in it.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 250 minutes

Expected goals: 45.8%; 21st pct
Shot attempts: 50.1%; 58th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 8 for, 11 against. Expected: 8.3 and 9.8.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

1st

Numbers

21st

The numbers rank him 20 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.

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 — 58 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 · 25 games

Top speed: 22.1 mph; 41st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.96 a game
Distance: 1.79 miles a game
Hardest shot: 83.0 mph; 37th 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 17 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 1 assists, 18 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with CBJ · 250 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: CBJ took 51.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.8% — 5.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: 250 minutes at five-on-five — 3rd percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Ivan Provorov	48.6%	43.7%	51.3%
Zach Werenski	44.3%	46.9%	55.6%
Zach Aston-Reese	46.6%	45.4%	45.6%

48.6% together, 43.7% for him apart and 51.3% for Provorov apart. He was worse away from Provorov, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than Provorov 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

47 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 32 feet. 32% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 28% from beyond forty.