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Yanni Gourde
Seattle Kraken Center
Undrafted at 5-9 with 402 career penalty minutes, and the worst finishing figure on the club.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 545 | 126 | 190 | 316 | +47 | 402 | 21 | 9 | 26 | 948 | 13.3 | 16:31 |
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
80 games, 11 goals and 22 assists for 33 points, 2 shorthanded, 62 penalty minutes, 17:27 a night and minus-11, with 1 game-winner. He took 49.3 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five over 1,162 minutes, the 47th percentile, and his ice went 36-46 against an expectation of 46.27-47.66.
Ten goals of finishing below what the chances were worth — the worst figure on the club. He shot 7.1 per cent against a career 13.29, which is close to half his own rate, and 11 goals is his lowest total in a full season since 2019-20.
The Finesse Game
223 attempts at a median of 24 feet with 41 per cent of them from inside twenty, 154 of those on goal, converted at 7.1 per cent against a career 13.29 across 948 shots.
126 career goals and 190 assists in 545 games. He goes to the net at 5-9 and 173 and stays there against men who outweigh him by fifty pounds, which is the entire reason an undrafted centre has a 316-point career.
The Physical Game
He is 5-9 and 173 and took 62 penalty minutes.
402 career penalty minutes in 545 games is an extraordinary total for the smallest forward on this roster. He cross-checks, slashes and talks, and he draws as much of it as he takes; a great deal of what makes him useful is that opponents cannot leave him alone.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, nine seasons, two organisations, and 316 points in 545 games.
Nine career shorthanded goals and a career plus-47. He was undrafted, reached the league at 24, and has played 545 NHL games since.
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
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.
- durable· was available
80 of 82 games
Season to season, this measure repeats weakly (0.32) · 53% keep it
“He goes to the net at 5-9 and 173 and stays there against men who outweigh him by fifty pounds, which is the entire reason an undrafted centre has a 316-point career.”
“He cross-checks, slashes and talks, and he draws as much of it as he takes; a great deal of what makes him useful is that opponents cannot leave him alone.”
“He was undrafted, reached the league at 24, and has played 545 NHL games since.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2023-24 · 1,162 minutes
- Expected goals
- 49.3%
- 47th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.3%
- 74th 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: 36 for, 46 against. Expected: 46.3 and 47.7.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 43 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 652 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 79 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 · 80 games
- Top speed
- 22.8 mph
- 78th pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 2.20 a game
- Distance
- 2.97 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.8 mph
- 69th pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.1
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 84.5
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 · 1162 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
- SEA took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 49.3% — 1.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- First line, 1,162 minutes at five-on-five — 79th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eeli Tolvanen | 49.4% | 49.1% | 51.2% |
| Oliver Bjorkstrand | 52.6% | 45.4% | 49.9% |
| Adam Larsson | 47.2% | 50.6% | 48.9% |
49.4% together, 49.1% for him apart and 51.2% for Tolvanen apart. Splitting them up moved neither man. Whatever is driving the share, it is not this pairing.
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
223 unblocked shots in 2023-24, 12 of them goals. His median goal came from 11 feet. 41% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 24% from beyond forty.