Armchair Hockey Scout

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2026-27 edition Ask a direct question about this edition of the book — who, how many, how common, which group more — and it is answered with a table computed on this page from the edition’s index: the season line, height and age, the on-ice percentiles, the grades and the traits read out of every report. Ask for a view on named players — what a comparison comes down to, what makes a man — and you get the book’s reading of their own pages, and only those. The model turns your question into a query and phrases the result, or reads the pages it is handed; it never originates a figure, and an answer carrying a figure that is on neither the table nor the pages is withheld. It does not forecast, and it says so when a question is outside what the book holds.

Tables are computed on this page from the 2026-27 edition’s index; readings rest on the players’ own pages; the model never counts. Twenty questions an hour.
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David Gustafsson

Pittsburgh Penguins Center

149 games, 20 points, and none of them last season.

SeasonTeamGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2019-20WPG22101-20001425.06:09
2020-21WPG4000-1000010.05:49
2021-22WPG2000000000—2:28
2022-23WPG46066+26000450.010:06
2023-24WPG39347+100002711.19:16
2024-25WPG36246+107000306.78:59
2026-27 so far—————————————
Career—14961420+10130011075.68:49

No games in 2025-26. The season above is the last one he played, and everything on this page should be read with that gap in it.

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.

2024-25

2 goals and 4 assists in 36 games, plus-10, at 8:59 a night with 7 penalty minutes. He did not appear in the NHL last season.

The Finesse Game

30 shots on goal in 36 games and 2 goals. 20 points in 149 career games, which is a fourth-line checking rate and not a generous one.

There is nothing to describe offensively and there never has been.

The Physical Game

6-2, 196, and he plays a straightforward defensive game — wins faceoffs, forechecks, kills penalties. 7 penalty minutes in 36 games.

The Intangibles

There is no 5-on-5 record for him in this edition because there was no season to draw one from.

He is 26, a second-round pick in 2018, and has spent 7 professional seasons oscillating between the American League and a fourth-line job in Winnipeg.

Pittsburgh signs him as organisational depth behind Crosby, Malkin, Novak, Dewar and Lizotte. The page exists because he is on the list. Ask again if he plays 30 games.