Yanni Gourde Teammate Impact NHL Stats & Career Totals

Pontus Holmberg is the partner who brings the best out of him

Gourde is at his best beside Holmberg: 59.7% of the expected goals together against 49.0% apart.

768 minutes together, 354 minutes apart

It stops working when he is paired with Victor Hedman

The pairing with Hedman is the one that costs him: 42.1% of the expected goals together, 58.2% apart.

122 minutes together, 1,000 minutes apart

Teammates play better with him than they do without him

Girgensons is a different player beside him: 57.2% of the expected goals with Gourde, 33.5% without him.

774 minutes together, 153 minutes apart for Girgensons

Teammates tend to play worse when he is on their line

Hedman does better away from him: 54.4% of the expected goals apart against 42.1% together.

122 minutes together, 331 minutes apart

He and J.J. Moser are the pair that scares the other team

The pairing that generates most is Gourde and Moser: 4.98 expected goals an hour.

423 minutes together at 5v5

Zemgus Girgensons is the partner his coach keeps going back to

He spends more 5v5 time with Girgensons than anyone: 774 minutes, worth 57.2% of the expected goals.

21 goals for, 22 against together

The goals go his team's way when Emil Lilleberg is out there with him

With Lilleberg on the ice too, the Lightning have outscored opponents 8 to 6 at 5v5.

57.1% goal share over 210 minutes

Nothing gets through when he and J.J. Moser are out together

He gives up least beside Moser: 2.97 expected goals against an hour.

423 minutes together at 5v5

Victor Hedman is who he kills penalties with, almost every time

Killing penalties he is tightest with Hedman: 6.71 expected goals against an hour.

38 minutes together short-handed

This is the group that wins him his minutes

His best five is with Girgensons, Holmberg, Moser and Raddysh: 66.0% of the expected goals over 173 minutes.

8 goals for, 4 against, 57.8% of the attempts

This is the group his coach trusts with the game

The five the coach goes back to is Gourde with Girgensons, Holmberg, Moser and Raddysh, 173 minutes at 5v5.

66.0% of the expected goals, 8 goals for and 4 against

This is the group sent out to kill the hard ones

His most used kill is with Cernak, Girgensons and McDonagh: 2 goals against in 21 minutes.

5.75 against an hour, 4.1 expected

His coach keeps shuffling the players around him

Gourde has played 30 different five-man units at 5v5, 4 of them for real minutes.

units of at least 5 minutes; 30 minutes counts as settled

The same few teammates are on the ice with him all night

11 teammates have played at least 100 5v5 minutes with Gourde this season.

each of them also has that long apart from him, so every split below is a real split

Pontus Holmberg is the teammate who sets him up more than anyone

Pontus Holmberg has assisted on 3 of his 9 goals, 33.3% of them.

1 primary, 2 secondary

His assists are the real ones, the pass that made the goal

73.7% of his assists are primary, the pass that actually made the goal.

14 primary of 19 assists

Zemgus Girgensons is the teammate he sets up more than anyone

He has helped on 8 of Zemgus Girgensons's goals, 42.1% of his own assists.

6 primary, 2 secondary

One teammate is responsible for most of his goals

9 different teammates have assisted on his 9 goals.

Holmberg (3), Raddysh (2), Girgensons (2), Hedman (1)

His line wastes the chances it works so hard to create

His line is being outscored despite the play: 43.2% of the goals off 56.6% of the expected goals.

13.4 points of goal share below expectation

Very little gets through when he is on the ice

He gives up 3.37 expected goals an hour at 5v5.

6th of 456 forwards

The goals go the wrong way when he is on the ice

The Lightning are down 22 goals with Gourde on the ice.

41 for, 63 against, 437th of 465 forwards

Almost nothing comes back the other way with him out there

Opponents get 48.39 shot attempts an hour with Gourde on the ice at 5v5.

24th of 456 forwards

His line spends the night in the other team's end

At 5v5 the Lightning generate 56.6% of the expected goals with Gourde on the ice.

82.2 xGF to 63.1 xGA over 1,122 minutes, 45th of 456 forwards

His results are about what the underlying play deserves

His 5v5 on-ice percentages add to 97.7, running cold and likely to correct.

7.4% shooting and 90.3% goaltending behind him, 337th of 456 forwards

Teams struggle to score on him when he is killing penalties

Short-handed he concedes 8.09 expected goals an hour.

17 goals against in 167 minutes, 24th of 180 forwards

His side controls the puck while he is out there

Gourde's line owns 52.5% of the 5v5 shot attempts.

1,000 for, 905 against, 101st of 456 forwards

His team keeps getting outscored while he is out there

The Lightning score 43.2% of the 5v5 goals with Gourde out there.

32 for, 42 against, 341st of 456 forwards

The offence runs at about its usual level with him

The Lightning create 4.39 expected goals an hour at 5v5 with Gourde on.

203rd of 456 forwards

Shots even out when he is on the ice

49.9% of the 5v5 shots on goal go his way when Gourde is on.

431 for, 433 against, 211th of 456 forwards

He is one of the players his coach trusts to kill penalties

He draws 2:08 of penalty kill time a game, 38th among forwards.

12.5% of his total ice time

His coach leans on him more than almost anyone

Gourde plays 16:21 a night, 173rd among forwards.

1,342 minutes across 82 games

He spends too much time in the penalty box

He takes 2.95 penalty minutes an hour.

167th most penalty minutes an hour

Blocking shots is not part of how he plays

He blocks 1.39 shots an hour of ice time.

778th in the league

He gives the puck away more than he should

26 takeaways against 77 giveaways: he loses it far more often than he wins it back.

0.34 takeaways per giveaway

He takes the puck off people more than almost anyone

He takes the puck back 1.16 times an hour.

218th in the league

The scoreboard moves the wrong way when he plays

He is -6 on the season.

709th in the league

He hands the puck over more than he should

He gives it away 3.45 times an hour.

264th most giveaways an hour

He plays a heavy game and the other team feels it

He finishes 5.15 checks an hour.

342nd in the league

He starts and finishes plays in about equal measure

He sets up 0.85 assists an hour of ice time.

440th in the league

He scores at about the rate you would expect

He scores 0.4 goals an hour of ice time.

484th in the league

He produces at about the rate you would expect

Gourde produces 1.25 points an hour of ice time.

489th in the league

He wins about half his draws, like most centres

He wins 44.9% of his draws.

280th in the league

He puts about as many pucks on net as anyone

He puts 5.1 shots on goal an hour.

477th in the league

He gets almost nothing from long range

20.2% of his attempts are fired from beyond 45 feet.

43 long-range attempts, 435th of 468 forwards

Most of his shots come from a long way out

His average attempt comes from 30.2 feet.

213 located attempts, 416th of 468 forwards

He rarely gets into the dangerous areas of the ice

42.3% of his attempts come from inside 25 feet.

90 of 213 attempts, 406th of 468 forwards

He works the outside and rarely gets to the front of the net

42.3% of what he shoots comes from the slot.

90 attempts from inside the home plate, 401st of 468 forwards

He does not shoot, he looks to pass or carry instead

He fires 9.52 attempts an hour of ice time.

213 attempts in 1,342 minutes, 388th of 465 forwards

There is one shot he goes to more than any other

26.3% of his attempts are the wrist shot.

56 attempts, 1 goals

Defenders get in front of a huge share of his shots

19.2% of everything he shoots gets blocked before it arrives.

41 of 213 attempts, 140th of 468 forwards

He takes about as many shots over a season as anyone

Gourde has taken 213 shot attempts this season.

104 on goal, 59 missed, 41 blocked, 209th of 468 forwards

He hits the net about as often as anyone

65.7% of his unblocked attempts actually hit the net.

113 of 172 unblocked, 224th of 468 forwards

He owns this goalie, and the numbers are not close

Gourde has scored 1 times on Joonas Korpisalo this season, more than on any other goaltender.

1 goals on 6 attempts, 16.7%

This goalie has his number and he cannot solve him

Ilya Sorokin has turned him away every time: 9 attempts, no goals.

0.0% conversion

One team seems to bring the best out of him

He has 2 goals against the Red Wings this season.

8 attempts against them

No goalie has seen more of him than this one

No goalie has seen more of him than Ilya Sorokin: 9 attempts, 0 goals.

0.0% conversion

He wins the draw against this centre almost every time

He wins 75.0% of his draws against Oliver Kapanen.

6 of 8 faceoffs

This centre beats him on the draw almost every time

Christian Dvorak beats him on the draw: he wins only 12.5% of them.

1 of 8 faceoffs

There is one opponent he goes looking for all night

Gourde has finished his check on Jayden Struble 4 times, more than anyone.

hits delivered, from play-by-play

He gets under this opponent's skin and draws the penalty

He has drawn 2 penalties on Sam Bennett.

penalties drawn, from play-by-play

He keeps taking penalties against this one opponent

Sam Bennett has drawn 2 penalties on him.

penalties taken, from play-by-play

He is not converting the chances he gets

Gourde has 9 goals off 13.9 expected: 4.9 short of what the chances say.

424th of 468 forwards

His shooting has gone cold this season

He converts 8.0% of the shots he puts on goal.

9 goals on 113 shots, 385th of 468 forwards

The chances in tight are not going in for him

From inside 25 feet he buries 5.6% of his attempts.

5 goals on 90 close attempts, 374th of 468 forwards

One shot in his bag goes in far more often than the rest

His deadliest shot is the snap shot: 9.8% of them go in.

5 goals on 51 attempts

There is a range from which his goals almost always come

His goals average 21.2 feet out, and the longest went in from 38.

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