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Radko Gudas
Anaheim Ducks Defense
Eight hundred and forty-three career penalty minutes, the hardest shot in the league, and two goals.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 682 | 33 | 131 | 164 | +73 | 843 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1133 | 2.9 | 18:03 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 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 15 assists in 72 games for Florida — 17 points at 17:22 a night, plus-14, on 110 shots and 79 penalty minutes.
57.2 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,045 minutes, the 93rd percentile. That is a real number and it needs its context: it was earned on a club that reached the Final, starting 45.1 per cent of his shifts in the attacking end at the 96th percentile. His ice went 47-34 against an expectation of 50.4-37.66.
He will not see deployment like that again here.
The Finesse Game
110 attempts at a median of 54 feet, 85 per cent of them from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20, converting at 1.82 per cent.
The curiosity is that the shot itself is measured at 101.7 mph, the hardest of any skater in the league, and it produced two goals. A shot from 54 feet through four bodies is a rebound-generating device and nothing else, and 33 goals in 682 games is the honest career line.
The Physical Game
Eight hundred and forty-three penalty minutes in 682 games, and a reputation earned the hard way. He hits to hurt, he crosses the line often enough to have a suspension history, and forwards know exactly where he is on the ice.
6-0 and 208 with a low centre of gravity. He clears his own crease and he does not lose the front of the net to anybody.
The Intangibles
Sixty-sixth overall in 2010, eleven years, 682 games, and a Cup Final appearance three weeks before Anaheim signed him.
He is 33 and this is a three-year contract on the worst defensive club in hockey. The role is obvious and it is not really about hockey: he is here to make a young roster harder to play against and to stop the other side taking liberties with Zegras. Whether that is worth three years is Anaheim’s problem.
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
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
84.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- drives-play· the shot clock turns his way while he is out there
57.2% of the expected goals at five-on-five with him on, 52.4% for his club in the minutes he sat: +4.8, 92nd percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats moderately (0.39) · 29% keep it
“He hits to hurt, he crosses the line often enough to have a suspension history, and forwards know exactly where he is on the ice.”
“Eight hundred and forty-three penalty minutes in 682 games, and a reputation earned the hard way.”
“He clears his own crease and he does not lose the front of the net to anybody.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2022-23 · 1,045 minutes
- Expected goals
- 57.2%
- 94th pct
- Shot attempts
- 55.9%
- 92nd 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: 47 for, 34 against. Expected: 50.4 and 37.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe numbers rank him 25 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 58 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 64 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
2022-23 with FLA · 1045 minutes at five-on-five
- Josh Mahura73%
- Gustav Forsling13%
- Marc Staalnow PHI8%
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, 2022-23
- The club
- FLA took 53.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 57.2% — 3.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third pair, 1,045 minutes at five-on-five — 63rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Mahura | 59.4% | 50.9% | 51.9% |
| Ryan Lomberg | 52.5% | 59.4% | 50.3% |
| Eric Staal | 49.8% | 59.9% | 49.0% |
59.4% together, 50.9% for him apart and 51.9% for Mahura 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
156 unblocked shots in 2022-23, 2 of them goals. His median goal came from 69 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 85% from beyond forty.