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Radko Gudas
Anaheim Ducks 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.
46.4 per cent at five-on-five, the 22nd percentile. His on-ice goals were 47-52 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 29th, 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.
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
88.6% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 99th percentile among defencemen
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
- durable· was available
81 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He still finishes every check available”
“still clears his crease”
“still plays right at the edge of what the league allows”
“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.”
“a first pass that goes to the nearest available sweater”
“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 numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 1,333 minutes
- Expected goals
- 46.4%
- 22nd pct
- Shot attempts
- 46.7%
- 23rd 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, 52 against. Expected: 52.1 and 60.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 1 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 637 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.
Tracked
NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 81 games
- Top speed
- 22.1 mph
- 66th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 0.22 a game
- Distance
- 2.64 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 101.2 mph
- 98th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 21.6
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 89.7
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
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 46.4% — 1.8 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 | 47.5% | 43.8% | 54.3% |
| Troy Terry | 50.7% | 43.7% | 47.4% |
| Frank Vatrano | 49.9% | 44.2% | 47.5% |
47.5% together, 43.8% for him apart and 54.3% for LaCombe apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with LaCombe and did not follow him.
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.