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Cutter Gauthier
Anaheim Ducks Left Wing
20 goals in his first full season at 21, on 190 shots and fourteen minutes a night.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ANA | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 | 15:24 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 82 | 20 | 24 | 44 | +8 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 190 | 10.5 | 14:09 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 83 | 20 | 25 | 45 | +9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 193 | 10.4 | 14:10 |
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
20 goals and 24 assists in 82 games for 44 points, plus-8, on 14:09 a night — 82 games and a plus rating in a rookie season on a club that conceded 263 goals.
46.0 per cent at five-on-five, the 20th percentile, which is the whole roster’s number rather than his. 190 shots is the more interesting figure: only Frank Vatrano took more, and Gauthier did it in three fewer minutes a night.
The Finesse Game
A shooter, and a genuine one. The release is heavy and fast off the pass and he is willing to use it from anywhere, which is why a rookie in bottom-six minutes took 190 shots. 10.5 per cent conversion is unremarkable and will improve as the locations do — a third of his attempts came from beyond 30 feet.
The passing is the weaker half and always has been. 24 assists is honest, and the offence he creates is largely his own; he is not the man who makes a line work.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 205, and he goes to the net without hesitation. He is not a forechecking force yet but he takes the punishment that comes with shooting from inside the dots.
20 penalty minutes across 82 games. The durability was perfect in a first season, which is a real thing to note about a 21-year-old.
The Intangibles
A 5th overall pick who refused to sign with the club that drafted him and forced a trade here, which produced a great deal of noise and no evidence of a problem since.
20 goals as a 21-year-old rookie is the third-best mark in the organisation’s history for that age. The realistic projection is a 30-goal winger; the realistic risk is that a pure shooter on a club with no power play stays a 20-goal one.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- measuredcomputed here from the season's own data
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
31.1% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- clutch· scored his goals when the game was still live
4 of his 20 goals late or in overtime, 93rd percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure barely repeats (0.06) · 10% keep it
- durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“he goes to the net without hesitation”
“The passing is the weaker half and always has been. 24 assists is honest, and the offence he creates is largely his own; he is not the man who makes a line work.”
“He is not a forechecking force yet”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 982 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.3%
- 20th 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: 48 for, 35 against. Expected: 38.7 and 45.5.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 52 points above where the numbers do. 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. 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 637 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 76 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, 2024-25 · 82 games
- Top speed
- 23.4 mph
- 95th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.44 a game
- Distance
- 2.37 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 93.2 mph
- 92nd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 982 minutes at five-on-five
- Alex Killorn29%
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
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.0% — 1.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 982 minutes at five-on-five — 58th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason McTavish | 44.9% | 47.0% | 44.0% |
| Robby Fabbri | 41.6% | 48.9% | 37.6% |
| Radko Gudas | 44.3% | 46.7% | 47.0% |
44.9% together, 47.0% for him apart and 44.0% for McTavish apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
299 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 27 feet. 21% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.