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Radko Gudas
Anaheim Ducks Defense
Nine hundred and seventy-one penalty minutes in 748 games, and the only defenceman on this club who finished above water.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 748 | 39 | 143 | 182 | +87 | 971 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1221 | 3.2 | 18:11 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
6 goals and 12 assists in 66 games — 18 points at 19:30 a night, plus-14 with 128 penalty minutes on 88 shots.
Plus-14 on a club that finished minus everything and conceded 295 goals. 48.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,081 minutes, the 40th percentile — the best mark of any regular on this blue line. His ice went 46-41 against an expectation of 38.90-41.64.
The Finesse Game
88 attempts at a median of 57 feet, with 84 per cent from beyond 40 and 4 per cent from inside 20. The shot is a point shot taken from the point and the conversion is 6.8 per cent, which is high for that distance and is not a skill anyone should build around.
12 assists. He is not a distributor, he does not carry the puck out under control, and the first pass is short and safe rather than early and long. What he does with the puck is get rid of it before it costs anything.
The Physical Game
This is the whole report. 6-0 and 208 with 971 penalty minutes in 748 games, and he has led a league in hits more than once.
He finishes every check and he takes the body first, and he clears the front of his own net by moving grown men out of it. He crosses the line often enough that the crossing is part of the deterrent — a forward standing in the blue paint against him is making a decision about the next shift as well as this one.
128 penalty minutes in 66 games is the cost, and on a club that spent 6:08 a game shorthanded it is a real one.
The Intangibles
Sixty-sixth overall in 2010 and 748 games across five clubs, with a Stanley Cup in Florida in 2021 before he was let go.
He is 34 and he was signed here to be exactly what he is. A club that finishes thirtieth needs somebody opponents do not enjoy playing, and he is the only man on this roster who qualifies — and the fact that he was also its best defenceman by chance share says more about the blue line than about him.
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.
- perimeter· shoots from the outside, by choice or because he cannot get in
83.8% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 96th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
“**He finishes every check and he takes the body first**, and he clears the front of his own net by moving grown men out of it.”
“**He finishes every check and he takes the body first**, and he clears the front of his own net by moving grown men out of it.”
“**He crosses the line often enough that the crossing is part of the deterrent** — a forward standing in the blue paint against him is making a decision about the next shift as well as this one.”
“**He crosses the line often enough that the crossing is part of the deterrent** — a forward standing in the blue paint against him is making a decision about the next shift as well as this one.”
“**A club that finishes thirtieth needs somebody opponents do not enjoy playing, and he is the only man on this roster who qualifies** — and the fact that he was also its best defenceman by chance share says more about the blue line than about him.”
“12 assists. He is not a distributor, he does not carry the puck out under control, and the first pass is short and safe rather than early and long.”
“12 assists. He is not a distributor, he does not carry the puck out under control, and the first pass is short and safe rather than early and long.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,081 minutes
- Expected goals
- 48.3%
- 40th pct
- Shot attempts
- 48.1%
- 36th 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: 46 for, 41 against. Expected: 38.9 and 41.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 5 points of one another. 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.
Both bars are percentiles among the 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 66 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, 2023-24 · 66 games
- Top speed
- 21.9 mph
- 57th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.32 a game
- Distance
- 2.54 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.7 mph
- 98th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.7
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 90.2
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
2023-24 · 1081 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, 2023-24
- The club
- ANA took 45.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 48.3% — 2.4 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Second pair, 1,081 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urho Vaakanainen | 50.1% | 46.8% | 44.0% |
| Jackson LaCombe | 48.4% | 48.3% | 43.7% |
| Troy Terry | 53.6% | 46.4% | 45.3% |
50.1% together, 46.8% for him apart and 44.0% for Vaakanainen 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
136 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 6 of them goals. His median goal came from 56 feet. 4% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 84% from beyond forty.