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Radko Gudas
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Defense
35 years old, 86 penalty minutes, and 1,333 minutes of the hardest defensive assignments on the worst defensive team in the league.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 829 | 40 | 158 | 198 | +91 | 1057 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1310 | 3.0 | 18:21 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 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
1 goal and 15 assists in 81 games for 16 points, plus-4, on 19:52 a night — the most five-on-five minutes of any defenceman on the roster.
46.2 per cent at five-on-five, the 20th percentile. His on-ice goals were 51-55 against an expected 52-60, which means the goaltending saved him 5 goals and he still finished under water.
The Finesse Game
Essentially none, and there never was. 89 shots with 89 per cent of them from beyond 40 feet, 1 goal, and a first pass that goes to the nearest available sweater.
What he does is defend a rush by refusing to give ground, which works against forwards who want to go through him and does not against forwards who go around. At 35 more of them go around.
The Physical Game
6 feet and 208 and one of the most feared hitters of his generation. He still finishes every check available, still clears his crease, and still plays right at the edge of what the league allows.
86 penalty minutes is the highest total on the club. On a team whose penalty kill was 28th, a captain taking that many is a direct and measurable cost, and it is not a new habit.
The Intangibles
Fourteen seasons, six organisations, a captaincy here, and a reputation that arrives in the building before he does. Nobody has ever questioned whether he competes.
The honest projection at 35 is a third-pair defenceman being played 20 minutes a night because there is nobody else. He is a useful man to have in a room full of 21-year-olds and an expensive one to have on the ice.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,333 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.2%
- 20th pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.5%
- 20th 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: 51 for, 55 against. Expected: 51.5 and 60.0.
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 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 67 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
2024-25 · 1333 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, 2024-25
- The club
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 46.2% — 1.6 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- First pair, 1,333 minutes at five-on-five — 93rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson LaCombe | 47.7% | 42.6% | 50.5% |
| Troy Terry | 49.8% | 44.1% | 47.8% |
| Frank Vatrano | 48.8% | 44.7% | 48.3% |
47.7% together, 42.6% for him apart and 50.5% for LaCombe apart. He was worse away from LaCombe, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than LaCombe did.
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
132 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 1 of them goals. His median goal came from 57 feet. 5% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 89% from beyond forty.