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Radko Gudas
Florida Panthers Defense
The 2nd-most hits, the 3rd-most penalties drawn and the 2nd-hardest shot of the qualified defencemen — with 105 penalty minutes.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 610 | 31 | 116 | 147 | +59 | 764 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1023 | 3.0 | 18:08 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
3 goals and 13 assists in 77 games — 16 points and a plus-27 at 18:01 a night, the 30th percentile among defencemen — with 105 penalty minutes, the most of any Florida skater. 2:05 a night short-handed is the 65th percentile.
56.1 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,224 minutes, the 17th-highest of the 202 qualified defencemen.
The Finesse Game
There is not much. 0.74 even-strength points per 60 is the 27th percentile and not one of his sixteen points came on the power play. He has one power-play goal in 610 NHL games.
4.33 shots per 60 is the 49th percentile at 3.0 per cent, and the median travels 52 feet.
101.7 mph is the 2nd-hardest recorded shot of the 192 defencemen the tracking covers, behind Colton Parayko alone. Three goals came off it. A shot that hard, taken 100 times a season, producing three goals, is one of the odder pairings in the book and the explanation is that it is a point shot aimed at a screen.
2.47 giveaways per 60 is the 86th percentile against 1.21 takeaways at the 71st.
The Physical Game
6-0 and 208, and this is the page.
15.35 hits per 60 is the 2nd-most of the 202 qualified defencemen, behind only Mark Borowiecki. At eighteen minutes a night. Nobody in the league who plays that much hits at that rate.
1.25 penalties drawn per 60 is the 3rd-most of 202 and 1.64 taken is the 98th percentile. One hundred and five minutes in seventy-seven games, and 764 in a 610-game career. The net is minus-0.39 — he gives up more than he earns, and both halves are enormous.
5.10 blocks per 60 is the 76th percentile. 21.6 mph is the 31st percentile and 1.2 bursts over 20 mph per 60 is the 39th — he is slow and he almost never sprints, at 8.70 miles per 60, the 78th. He gets there by being where the man is going, not by catching him.
The Intangibles
Sixty-sixth overall in 2010, the third round, and 610 NHL games at 32 with a career plus-59 across four organisations.
With Gustav Forsling he took 54.8 per cent of the chances over 1,428 attempts — the club’s most-used pair — and Forsling without him took 58.5. He himself was at 58.3 away from Forsling over 803 attempts.
Both men are better apart, on samples large enough to say so, which is an unusual thing to find in a pairing that played fourteen hundred attempts together on the best club in the league.
At 32, on a club that has lost MacKenzie Weegar. The hits and the reach are the job and the 105 penalty minutes are what the job costs.
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.
- hard-minutes· is started in his own end, against the other club's best
39% of his end-zone starts in the attacking end, 6th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“Nobody in the league who plays that much hits at that rate.”
“he gives up more than he earns, and both halves are enormous”
“He gets there by being where the man is going, not by catching him.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,224 minutes
- Expected goals
- 56.1%
- 90th pct
- Shot attempts
- 54.6%
- 86th 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: 61 for, 44 against. Expected: 61.0 and 47.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 27 points above where the report does. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 63 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, 2021-22 · 77 games
- Top speed
- 21.6 mph
- 50th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.36 a game
- Distance
- 2.61 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.7 mph
- 100th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.5
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.4
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
2021-22 · 1224 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, 2021-22
- The club
- FLA took 56.5% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 56.1% — 0.4 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,224 minutes at five-on-five — 87th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustav Forsling | 54.8% | 58.3% | 58.5% |
| Sam Reinhart | 63.3% | 53.3% | 58.3% |
| Carter Verhaeghe | 57.0% | 55.7% | 59.9% |
54.8% together, 58.3% for him apart and 58.5% for Forsling 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
137 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 3 of them goals. His median goal came from 53 feet. 7% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 80% from beyond forty.