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Frederick Gaudreau
Seattle Kraken Center
Undrafted, and 18 goals on 110 shots in Minnesota before Seattle acquired him in the summer.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | NSH | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 | 8:40 |
| 2017-18 | NSH | 20 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.0 | 9:10 |
| 2018-19 | NSH | 55 | 3 | 1 | 4 | +1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 7.0 | 9:01 |
| 2020-21 | PIT | 19 | 2 | 8 | 10 | +10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 10.0 | 13:04 |
| 2021-22 | MIN | 76 | 14 | 30 | 44 | +12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 132 | 10.6 | 16:19 |
| 2022-23 | MIN | 82 | 19 | 19 | 38 | +10 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 138 | 13.8 | 16:03 |
| 2023-24 | MIN | 67 | 5 | 10 | 15 | -23 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 4.8 | 13:57 |
| 2024-25 | MIN | 82 | 18 | 19 | 37 | -2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 110 | 16.4 | 15:40 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 410 | 61 | 91 | 152 | +9 | 44 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 570 | 10.7 | 14:06 |
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
18 goals and 19 assists in 82 games for Minnesota — 37 points at 15:40 a night, with 5 power-play goals and 8 penalty minutes.
A 16.4 per cent conversion on 110 shots, which is a career-best rate by some distance and is the reason the point total looks the way it does. He had scored 19 goals in the previous two seasons combined.
The Finesse Game
110 attempts and 18 goals from a third-line centre at fifteen minutes a night. The shot is functional and the placement is good, and the rate will come down.
19 assists in 82 games. He is not a creator; he is a centre who supports the puck, makes the simple play out of his own end, and wins the draw that begins the shift.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 184 and light. He does not finish checks and he is not going to win a puck against a heavy defenceman.
8 penalty minutes in 82 games is among the lowest totals of any regular in this edition. He does not foul, which is a large part of why he is trusted a man short.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he reached the NHL at 24 after five seasons in the minor leagues — then scored three goals in a Stanley Cup Final for Tampa Bay in 2021, including the winner in two of them.
410 games and 152 points. He is 32 and Seattle acquired him in the summer to take defensive draws behind two young centres.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,008 minutes
- Expected goals
- 45.5%
- 16th pct
- Shot attempts
- 45.3%
- 13th 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: 38 for, 33 against. Expected: 29.7 and 35.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 26 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 — 71 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 MIN · 1008 minutes at five-on-five
- Yakov Trenin33%
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
- MIN took 49.1% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 45.5% — 3.6 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second line, 1,008 minutes at five-on-five — 62nd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brock Faber | 42.0% | 47.9% | 48.4% |
| Marcus Johansson | 46.9% | 44.7% | 50.5% |
| Marcus Foligno | 49.8% | 43.1% | 52.9% |
42.0% together, 47.9% for him apart and 48.4% for Faber 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
150 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 16 of them goals. His median goal came from 20 feet. 31% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.