Armchair Scout
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Marc Gatcomb

Vegas Golden Knights Center

Undrafted, eighty-eight games, and ten minutes a night.

SeasonGPGAPTS+/-PIMPPSHGWSS%TOI
2025-2649347-310000555.510:05
Career8811516-7210019611.59:57

Last Season

Three goals and four assists in 49 games — seven points, minus-three, at 10:05 a night with ten penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done on Long Island.

Sixteen points in 88 career games.

The Finesse Game

Seventy-six unblocked attempts, three goals, median 25 feet with 41 per cent from inside twenty. Four assists in 49 games is close to the bottom of this edition.

There is no offensive game and the club that plays him is not confused about it.

The Physical Game

Six foot two, 200, and he forechecks with real speed and finishes checks. Ten penalty minutes in 49 games is a low rate for the way he plays.

He kills penalties and takes defensive-zone draws, which is the whole job.

The Intangibles

Fifty-two point one per cent of the expected goals, 71st percentile, and 49.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 51st, across 491 minutes on Long Island, with the goals 20-22.

That is a genuinely respectable fourth-line season and considerably better than seven points suggests.

He is 27, undrafted, and did not play an NHL game until he was 26. On a club whose depth was stripped by a summer of departures, this is a thirteenth-forward job that may turn into a real one.

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 491 minutes

Expected goals
52.1%
71st pct

share of the chances while he was out there

Shot attempts
49.5%
51st pct

share of the attempts while he was out there

Goals while he was on the ice: 20 for, 22 against. Expected: 18.1 and 16.6.

The eye and the numbers

Report
69
Numbers
71

The eye and the numbers broadly agree on him.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

3

points in his last 10 games — 2 goals, 1 assists, 16 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with NYI · 491 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.

Where he shoots from

goal on goal missed

76 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 10 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 22% from beyond forty.