Yanni Gourde

5-9, undrafted, and the 79th percentile at 34.

Season	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	PIM	PP	SH	GW	S	S%	TOI

2015-16	TBL	2	0	1	1	+1	2	0	0	0	0	—	7:19
2016-17	TBL	20	6	2	8	-1	8	0	1	1	30	20.0	15:22
2017-18	TBL	82	25	39	64	+34	50	7	1	5	136	18.4	16:09
2018-19	TBL	80	22	26	48	+9	66	5	1	5	130	16.9	15:50
2019-20	TBL	70	10	20	30	-5	49	1	2	5	110	9.1	14:04
2020-21	TBL	56	17	19	36	+10	44	2	0	4	118	14.4	17:04
2021-22	SEA	74	21	27	48	-13	45	3	1	3	127	16.5	18:29
2022-23	SEA	81	14	34	48	+23	76	3	1	2	141	9.9	17:08
2023-24	SEA	80	11	22	33	-11	62	0	2	1	156	7.0	17:27
2024-25	SEA/TBL	57	7	24	31	-1	52	0	0	2	75	9.3	16:03
2025-26	TBL	82	9	19	28	-6	66	0	0	2	114	7.9	16:22
2026-27 so far	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Career	—	684	142	233	375	+40	520	21	9	30	1137	12.5	16:28

This Season So Far

The 2026-27 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

9 goals and 19 assists in all 82 games — 28 points, minus-6, at 16:22 a night with 66 penalty minutes. His 684th career game.

He turns 35 in December.

The Finesse Game

166 unblocked attempts, 9 goals, median 28 feet with 37 per cent from inside 20. 375 points in 684 career games.

19 assists in a full season is thin and the scoring has been declining for 3 years. He is no longer a scoring forward and the club is not using him as one.

The Physical Game

5-9 and 173 pounds, and he plays one of the most physically committed games in the league at that size — 66 penalty minutes, a full season of forechecking, and a body that has taken 12 years of it.

That is the entire career: undrafted, 680 games, 2 Stanley Cups.

The Intangibles

51.1 per cent of the expected goals, 64th percentile, and 52.5 per cent of the shot attempts, 78th, across 1,149 minutes, with the chances 43.0 to 41.0 in his favour and the goals 32-43.

The minus-6 sits on top of that, which is a special-teams artefact rather than a description of anything.

2 points in his last 10, neither a goal. He is 34, and the honest summary is that the underlying work is still excellent and the production has left. On this club that combination gets you a checking line and nobody complains.

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

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
31.3% of his attempts from 40 feet or beyond, 94th percentile among forwards
Season to season, this measure repeats well (0.66) · 50% keep it
durable· was available
82 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2025-26 · 1,149 minutes

Expected goals: 51.1%; 64th pct
Shot attempts: 52.5%; 78th pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 32 for, 43 against. Expected: 43.0 and 41.0.

The eye and the numbers

Sighted

Report

78th

Numbers

64th

The two rank him within 14 points of one another. It was written with these numbers on screen, so the agreement is not corroboration — the arithmetic is on both sides of it.

Both bars are percentiles among the 656 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 77 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, 2025-26 · 82 games

Top speed: 21.8 mph; 31st pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.17 a game
Distance: 2.79 miles a game
Hardest shot: 88.8 mph; 76th pct

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.

Recent form

Last 20 appearances, 2025-26, oldest first

points in his last 10 games — 0 goals, 2 assists, 18 shots

Each bar is one game by points. Filled bars are games he scored in.

Usual linemates

2025-26 · 1149 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, 2025-26

The club: TBL took 53.9% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.1% — 2.8 below the club he did it on.
The role: Second line, 1,149 minutes at five-on-five — 77th percentile in ice time.

With and without

Teammate	Together	Him apart	Mate apart
Pontus Holmberg	54.0%	45.0%	58.6%
Zemgus Girgensons	51.7%	50.0%	38.5%
J.J. Moser	54.0%	49.3%	56.1%

54.0% together, 45.0% for him apart and 58.6% for Holmberg apart. He was the one being carried: the share went with Holmberg 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

166 unblocked shots in 2025-26, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 19 feet. 37% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 31% from beyond forty.