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Yanni Gourde
Tampa Bay Lightning Center
Undrafted, 5-9, and back where he won two Stanley Cups after a deadline trade from Seattle.
| 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 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 602 | 133 | 214 | 347 | +46 | 454 | 21 | 9 | 28 | 1023 | 13.0 | 16:29 |
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
7 goals and 24 assists in 57 games across Seattle and Tampa Bay — 31 points at 16:03 a night, with 52 penalty minutes.
51.5 per cent of the expected goals at five-on-five, the 78th percentile, across 762 minutes. His ice went 34-32 against an expectation of 29.79-28.04, which is a third line that won both sides of the ledger.
The Finesse Game
75 attempts at a median of 23 feet with 45 per cent from inside 20, and 7 goals at a 9.3 per cent rate. The finishing has gone and the location has not.
24 assists in 57 games is the real number. He plays a quick, low game below the goal line, he finds the man arriving late, and the hockey sense has never depended on the legs.
The Physical Game
5-9 and 173 pounds and among the most irritating players in the league. He forechecks first, he hits men fifty pounds heavier, and he talks.
52 penalty minutes in 57 games is a very high rate for a third-line centre and a share of it is the second penalty in a sequence he started. He draws the response and that is a large part of the job.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, and he played four full seasons in the American League and the ECHL before an NHL game at 25 — 602 games and 347 points, with two Stanley Cups here.
He was taken in the expansion draft in 2021, spent four seasons in Seattle, and was traded back at the deadline in March. He is 33.
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.
“**Undrafted**, and he played four full seasons in the American League and the ECHL before an NHL game at 25 — **602 games and 347 points**, with two Stanley Cups here.”
“He forechecks first, he hits men fifty pounds heavier, and he talks.”
“He forechecks first, he hits men fifty pounds heavier, and he talks.”
“**52 penalty minutes in 57 games** is a very high rate for a third-line centre and a share of it is the second penalty in a sequence he started.”
“**24 assists in 57 games is the real number.** He plays a quick, low game below the goal line, he finds the man arriving late, and the hockey sense has never depended on the legs.”
“75 attempts at a median of 23 feet with **45 per cent from inside 20**, and 7 goals at a 9.3 per cent rate.”
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 762 minutes
- Expected goals
- 51.5%
- 67th pct
- Shot attempts
- 52.4%
- 77th 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: 34 for, 32 against. Expected: 29.8 and 28.0.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe two rank him within 17 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 — 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, 2024-25 · 57 games
- Top speed
- 21.8 mph
- 33rd pct
- Bursts over 20 mph
- 1.46 a game
- Distance
- 2.68 miles a game
- Hardest shot
- 89.1 mph
- 73rd pct
fastest he was clocked all season; the league's average best is 22.2
how often he reaches that speed, not how fast he goes
skated, all strengths
one shot; the league's average best is 83.9
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 with SEA · 483 minutes at five-on-five
- Tye Kartye45%
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
- TBL took 50.8% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 51.5% — 0.7 above the club he did it on.
- The role
- 762 minutes at five-on-five — 33rd percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Tanev | 53.6% | 50.2% | 41.7% |
| Tye Kartye | 53.0% | 51.0% | 48.6% |
| Adam Larsson | 60.7% | 48.6% | 44.8% |
53.6% together, 50.2% for him apart and 41.7% for Tanev apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.
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
122 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 7 of them goals. His median goal came from 8 feet. 45% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 21% from beyond forty.