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Yanni Gourde
Seattle Kraken Center
The 37th-most takeaways of 393 forwards and the 93rd-percentile shot speed, at 5-9 and 173 pounds.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 384 | 101 | 134 | 235 | +35 | 264 | 18 | 6 | 23 | 651 | 15.5 | 16:12 |
This Season So Far
The 2022-23 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
74 games, 21 goals and 27 assists at 18:29 a night, minus-13, forty-five penalty minutes, 127 shots. Undrafted, and 384 NHL games and 235 points out of it. Forty-eight points matches the second-best season of his career.
The Finesse Game
16.5 per cent shooting is the 88th percentile — twenty-one goals from 127 shots — off 5.57 shots per 60 at only the 19th percentile. He does not shoot much and a very high share of it goes in, which is the same shape his whole career has had.
2.00 even-strength points per 60 is the 63rd percentile and fifteen per cent of his points came on the power play off 1:58 a night.
2.37 takeaways per 60 is the 90th percentile among forwards, on 10.00 miles per 60 at the 80th, at 5-9 and 173 pounds.
His shot is 97.0 mph, the 93rd percentile among forwards, at 173 pounds — the third-hardest of any Seattle forward, off the smallest frame on the roster.
49.6 per cent of the expected goals and 51.1 per cent of the attempts, out of 46.0 per cent offensive-zone starts, the 207th-lowest of the 652 skaters who took two hundred end-zone starts — one of the two hardest chairs among the Seattle forwards.
And the pair file is the same story as everyone else’s. Across 769 attempts with Adam Larsson the two took 44.9 per cent of the expected goals; Gourde apart from Larsson is at 53.0 across 1,031. Eight points, on the man who took the hard starts.
The Physical Game
3.38 hits per 60 is the 42nd percentile at 173 pounds and 1.36 blocks the 34th. 0.97 penalties drawn per 60 against 0.79 taken, and forty-five penalty minutes came out of seventy-four games — the most of any Seattle forward who played sixty.
The Intangibles
1:34 short-handed a night is the 75th percentile among forwards and one of his twenty-one goals came a man short.
22.3 mph is the 44th percentile and 6.0 bursts per 60 the 60th, against 10.00 miles per 60 at the 80th. Ordinary pace, a great deal of ground, which at 5-9 is the profile that has kept him in the league.
He is 30, undrafted, with 384 games. The shooting percentage, the takeaways, the shot speed and the ground covered are four genuine things from the smallest man in this chapter. The shot volume is why forty-eight points is close to the ceiling, and the eight-point pair gap against Larsson is the clearest single argument on this roster.
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.
- 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.
“2.37 takeaways per 60 is the 90th percentile among forwards, on 10.00 miles per 60 at the 80th, at 5-9 and 173 pounds.”
“Undrafted, and 384 NHL games and 235 points out of it.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2021-22 · 1,054 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.6%
- 54th pct
- Shot attempts
- 51.1%
- 66th 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: 42 for, 51 against. Expected: 39.0 and 39.6.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 40 points above where the numbers do. 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 649 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 74 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, 2021-22 · 74 games
- Top speed
- 22.3 mph
- 60th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.85 a game
- Distance
- 3.08 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 97.0 mph
- 96th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.0
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.1
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
2021-22 · 1054 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, 2021-22
- The club
- SEA took 49.3% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.6% — 0.3 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- Third line, 1,054 minutes at five-on-five — 69th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Larsson | 44.9% | 53.0% | 46.6% |
| Calle Jarnkrok | 44.2% | 52.4% | 48.0% |
| Vince Dunn | 50.2% | 49.4% | 47.6% |
44.9% together, 53.0% for him apart and 46.6% for Larsson apart. He was better away from Larsson, who was no worse away from him — the pairing cost him more than it cost Larsson.
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
184 unblocked shots in 2021-22, 20 of them goals. His median goal came from 31 feet. 39% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 23% from beyond forty.