Radko Gudas

885 games, 67 penalty minutes, and a median shot from 60 feet.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2012-13	TBL	22	2	3	5	+3	38	0	0	1	31	6.5	17:00
2013-14	TBL	73	3	19	22	+2	152	1	0	1	114	2.6	19:08
2014-15	TBL	31	2	3	5	-5	34	0	0	1	63	3.2	17:00
2015-16	PHI	76	5	9	14	-3	116	0	0	1	150	3.3	19:51
2016-17	PHI	67	6	17	23	+8	93	0	0	0	113	5.3	19:18
2017-18	PHI	70	2	14	16	0	83	0	0	0	142	1.4	17:06
2018-19	PHI	77	4	16	20	+6	63	0	0	0	136	2.9	17:53
2019-20	WSH	63	2	13	15	+15	40	0	0	1	90	2.2	16:44
2020-21	FLA	54	2	9	11	+6	40	0	0	1	84	2.4	17:34
2021-22	FLA	77	3	13	16	+27	105	0	1	0	100	3.0	18:01
2022-23	FLA	72	2	15	17	+14	79	0	0	0	110	1.8	17:22
2023-24	ANA	66	6	12	18	+14	128	0	0	0	88	6.8	19:30
2024-25	ANA	81	1	15	16	+4	86	0	0	0	89	1.1	19:52
2025-26	ANA	56	2	11	13	-2	67	0	0	0	63	3.2	16:11
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	885	42	169	211	+89	1124	1	1	6	1373	3.1	18:13

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.

Last Season

2 goals and 11 assists in 56 games — 13 points, minus-2, at 16:11 a night with 67 penalty minutes. His 5-on-5 work was done in Anaheim.

The Finesse Game

None whatsoever. 96 unblocked attempts from a median of 60 feet — the longest average distance in this edition — with 3 per cent from inside 20, and 2 goals.

42 goals in 885 career games. He is on the ice to hurt people and to clear the front of the net, and the club is not confused about it.

The Physical Game

6 foot even, 208, and one of the genuinely feared hitters of the last 15 years. 67 penalty minutes in 56 games, a long history of suspensions, and a style that has not softened with age.

The skating is the limitation and has been for years.

The Intangibles

50.6 per cent of the expected goals, 59th percentile, in 810 minutes on a club that finished 29th in expected goals against. That is a respectable number in poor circumstances.

He is 36 and returns to the organisation he won a Stanley Cup with, to a blue line that has Forsling, Ekblad, Jones and Mikkola ahead of him.

Florida is built for a heavy spring and he is a heavy spring player. Whether a sixth defenceman who cannot skate still helps in April is the same question this book keeps asking about Deslauriers and Burroughs, and the answer keeps being: only in the games where it is the only thing that matters.

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

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
91.7% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 100th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 810 minutes

Expected goals: 50.6%; 60th pct
Shot attempts: 52.1%; 75th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 36 against. Expected: 37.8 and 36.9.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

15th

Numbers

60th

The numbers rank him 45 points above where the report does. It was written with these numbers on screen and departs from them anyway, which makes the gap a judgment rather than an oversight. 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 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 65 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, 2025-26 · 56 games

Top speed: 21.5 mph; 44th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 0.21 a game
Distance: 2.21 miles a game
Hardest shot: 98.8 mph; 92nd pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 1 goals, 2 assists, 13 shots

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

Usual linemates

2025-26 with ANA · 810 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.

Why the numbers land there

Five-on-five, 2025-26

The club: ANA took 50.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 50.6% — level with the club he did it on.
The role: Third pair, 810 minutes at five-on-five — 39th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Olen Zellweger	55.1%	46.6%	49.1%
Beckett Sennecke	44.6%	52.8%	52.7%
Cutter Gauthier	48.7%	51.2%	51.9%

55.1% together, 46.6% for him apart and 49.1% for Zellweger apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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

96 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 69 feet. 3% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 92% from beyond forty.