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Brendan Gaunce
Minnesota Wild Center
Twenty-sixth overall in 2012, and 28 points in 177 games across eight seasons.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 177 | 13 | 15 | 28 | -13 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 219 | 5.9 | 10:43 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
24 games in Columbus, 2 goals and 2 assists for 4 points, 6 penalty minutes, 11:45 a night and minus-7. He took 45.4 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 270 minutes, the 23rd percentile, and his ice went 6-12 against an expectation of 9.43-11.32, all of it with the Blue Jackets.
Three goals of scoring that did not arrive and one more conceded than the chances called for. Twenty-four games in a season is what the last six years have looked like.
The Finesse Game
24 shots in 24 games at a median of 26 feet, converted at 8.3 per cent against a career 5.94.
Fifteen career assists in 177 games. Thirteen goals in eight seasons is the whole record, and a first-round pick was drafted for a good deal more than that.
The Physical Game
He is 6-2 and 222 and hard to move from in front of a net.
67 career penalty minutes in 177 games is a low rate for a man of that size. He forechecks hard and wins the wall, and he does not go looking for anybody.
The Intangibles
Twenty-sixth overall in 2012 out of Sudbury, eight seasons across three organisations, and 28 points in 177 games.
He is 30 and has never played eighty games in a season. This is organisational depth signed to be recalled, and the club has been short enough of forwards to need it.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 270 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.4%
- 24th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.8%
- 26th 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: 6 for, 12 against. Expected: 9.4 and 11.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 7 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 415 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.
Usual linemates
2023-24 with CBJ · 270 minutes at five-on-five
- Carson Meyeroff the roster33%
- Alexandre Texiernow STL28%
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, 2023-24
- The club
- CBJ took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.4% — 0.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 270 minutes at five-on-five — 4th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathieu Olivier | 42.7% | 47.4% | 45.2% |
| Erik Gudbranson | 53.0% | 41.1% | 42.5% |
| Damon Severson | 51.9% | 41.8% | 48.1% |
42.7% together, 47.4% for him apart and 45.2% for Olivier apart. He was better away from Olivier, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Olivier.
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
40 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 13 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 25% from beyond forty.