Adam Gaudette | #96 | C

[saucypass]

14 minutes ago, kenhodgejr said:

I have heard coaches compare him to Brad Richards and Ryan Kesler 

Comparisons are to Mike Richards. Ryan Kesler is comparable if Gaudette can learn to be as fast. 

[filthycanuck]

2 hours ago, Hutton Wink said:

Two-way, non-stop motor, dog-on-a-bone, etc.  Don't have to go many pages back to see quotes from his coach here.

I love the competitveness. There was an article I think it was here, that he really wanted to show hes every bit as good as Pettersson in the development camp. Gotta love that kind of confidence

[Boudrias]

How is he doing in the Hobey Baker voting?

[The_Rocket]

Could definitely see Gaudette turning into cam atkinson in terms of offense. 40-50 points and 20-25 goals. Difference is Gaudette is bigger and can play centre with a better two-way game. If this is what he turns into I’d say huge win. 

Edited February 26, 2018 by Canadian Clay

[GoodCanadianKideh]

Couple of short handed goals on the season.  Good sign coming from the best offensive player in the NCAA.  Shows that he is a smart defensive player and is trusted by the coach defensively!  

[Rob_Zepp]

On 2/15/2018 at 1:38 PM, Rick Blight said:

Actually, there have been more players born in January (799) play in the NHL than players born in any other month. March, April and February are next so it would appear the earlier you were born in the year the better your chances of making it to the NHL 

NHL Totals by Birth Month - Career Stats

Rk		Month	Players	GP	G	A	P	PIM	PPG	SHG	GWG
1		February	731	188 169	33 590	50 909	84 499	154 937	8175	1015	4706
2		January	799	197 747	31 537	51 082	82 619	171 299	7221	983	4619
3		July	634	169 797	30 346	50 672	81 018	131 351	7369	986	4480
4		March	747	189 143	29 370	50 295	79 665	156 688	6789	1081	4016
5		June	615	171 445	28 228	46 730	74 958	147 026	6749	938	4044
6		October	564	158 123	28 304	44 800	73 104	122 940	6712	898	3898
7		September	584	154 036	27 835	43 654	71 489	121 005	6489	750	3956
8		April	729	174 320	26 153	45 052	71 205	148 436	6129	832	3652
9		May	704	169 254	27 052	43 447	70 499	137 330	5935	900	3733
10		December	510	149 709	26 250	43 177	69 427	117 819	5854	943	3843
11		August	547	144 767	25 201	42 037	67 238	115 420	6125	791	3476
12		November	502	131 461	20 748	32 982	53 730	105 559	4401	561	3034

That is what I was trying to say to the other fellow with stats.

[TGokou]

8 hours ago, Rob_Zepp said:

That is what I was trying to say to the other fellow with stats.

Take a look at that graph again notice that the months of September November and December have the lowest number of players? If you sort by defensemen the discrepancy is much higher. This has been back tested up to 30 years and is a surefire thing that I am not making up. For whatever reason, defensemen drafted with late birthdays do much better in the NHL. 

[-Vintage Canuck-]

Adam Gaudette named the Hockey East Player of the Month:

 

Quote

BOSTON – It was a month for the ages for the Northeastern hockey program, which went 6-1-1, finished in second place in Hockey East for the first time since 2008-09 and captured the program's first Beanpot title in 30 years. Two of the Huskies at the forefront of Northeastern's second half surge, Adam Gaudette and Cayden Primeau, collected conference honors on Tuesday when Gaudette was named the Hockey East Player of the Month and Primeau the Stop It Goaltending of the Month for February.
 
Gaudette led the NCAA in scoring with 17 points (10 goals, seven assists) in eight games, including goals in seven straight games and leading the nation with 2.12 points per game in that span. Gaudette recorded multi-point efforts in six of his eight games, including four three-point nights.
 
The Braintree, Mass. native solidified his place as one of the most iconic players in program history on February 12 when he recorded a hat trick in the Beanpot championship against Boston University, leading the Huskies to their first tournament title since 1988. Gaudette struck once per period against the Terriers, including his third of the night with 30 seconds to play on a dogged effort to work through a Terrier defenseman and pot the puck into the open net to seal Northeastern's first Beanpot win in 30 years.
 
For his efforts, Gaudette was named Beanpot MVP, the sixth player in team history to earn the honor and first since 2013.
 
Gaudette's hot hand continued throughout February, finishing the month with nine points (five goals, four assists) in four straight conference wins to help the Huskies to a second place finish in the Hockey East standings. His five-point weekend against UNH in the regular season finale earned the junior the title of Hockey East Scoring Champion (19 goals, 14 assists), the second Husky to win the conference's regular season scoring title (Jason Guerriero in 2004-05).
 
Not to be outdone, Primeau was the backbone of the Northeastern defense throughout the month with a .961 save percentage and 1.26 goals against average in eight starts, good for third and fourth in the NCAA in that span, respectively.
 
The Voorhees, N.J. native made at least 30 saves in five starts, held opponents to two goals or fewer on six occasions and recorded two shutouts.
 
Primeau saved his best for the biggest stage of the season when he steered aside 37 Boston College shots in a 3-0 shutout of the Eagles in the Beanpot semifinal before topping it with a season-high 38 against the Terriers one week later with the 66th Beanpot hanging in the balance. His .974 save percentage gave the rookie the Eberly Award for highest Beanpot save percentage, the first for a Husky since 2011 and 14th time in tournament history.
 
Like Gaudette, Primeau's electric play didn't stop after the Beanpot. He followed that up with a 4-0-0 mark to finish the regular season and become the Hockey East Goaltending Champion, the first since Brad Thiessen in 2008-09 and the fifth freshman in Hockey East history to claim the honor. In the process, Primeau tied the school record for most shutouts by a freshman (four), set by Thiessen in 2006-07.

http://gonu.com/news/2018/2/27/mens-ice-hockey-beanpot-heroes-gaudette-and-primeau-earn-hea-monthly-accolades.aspx

[SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME]

Gaudette and Primeau definitely made it easy for whatever committee selects the player and goalie of the month for Hockey East. 

[Biasbieksa]

Out of curiosity, why was Gaudette drafted so low?

 

 

[MattJVD]

19 minutes ago, Biasbieksa said:

Out of curiosity, why was Gaudette drafted so low?

 

 

30 points in 50 GP in the USHL in his draft year. He was also older than many in the draft (October 1996 birthday).

 

He has improved, dramaticly, every year since he was drafted.

[ruilin96]

18 hours ago, Biasbieksa said:

Out of curiosity, why was Gaudette drafted so low?

 

 

His draft year stat wise in the USHL wasn't very good. He only managed 30 points in 50 games. In comparison with other forwards drafted in the first round out of USHL that draft:

17th overall pick Kyle Connor: 71 points in 38 GP

21st overall pick Colin White: 17 points in 20 GP

23rd overall pick Brock Boeser: 68 points in 57 GP

 

However, Judd Brackett (head of amateur scout) at the time spent a lot of time scouting the USHL. He saw Gaudette doing everything right but just seems to be snake bitten and not getting the result. Perhaps it's bad bounces and bad luck, but at the time 30 points in 50 games is a lot lower in comparison to the ones I mentioned above. He wasn't thought of or ranked very high. In fact, go back to the first few pages when he first got drafted, most members on CDC wasn't high on him as well. He seem to really start figuring it out in the 2nd half of his first NCAA season and he never looked back from then. He had 30 points in 41 games in his freshman year with the Huskies, but 25 of the the 30 points came from the last 21 games of that season and he only managed 5 points in his frist 20 NCAA games. It seems like he figured it out early in his NCAA days, and kept the ball rolling ever since. It comes from good scouting, because our scouts saw him doing the right things and perhaps saw the potential and upside of him and decided to take a chance at him in the 5th round. In fact the Canucks also had a pick in pick #144 that year, the pick was just slightly above the pick they used to select Gaudette (Gaudette was selected 149), and they use that pick to select Carl Neill. Neill is no longer part of the organization and his playing hockey in the OUAA. So at the time, even the Canucks didn't have Gaudette rank so high as they chose to take Neill before selecting him. How good Gaudette is is still yet to be determined. NCAA stats cannot be much of an indicator for NHL success, some players seems to jump in a produce right away (Boeser), and some guys might struggle and never really find their game in the NHL (Zac Dalpe remember him?). I know this board gets overly hype (including myself) about Gaudette. But every time I get hyped up, my conciousness will tell me to tone down the expectations and see how he does when he comes in. Having seen interviews of him, I like the fire he has in himself and he seems to be the kind of guy that is very determined to be a NHL player and will work as hard as he could to achieve this goal. For that matter, I like his chances in the NHL.

Edited March 1, 2018 by ruilin96

[Noble 6]

 

[SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME]

Gonna be over a week until Gaudette plays again so I figured we could enjoy the highlights from last game. Not so much for the goalscoring clips, although they’re nice, but some of the other plays Adam makes.

 

The video opens with Gaudette leading the attack, making the entry, and then showing off a nice one on one move to leave the defender on the ice searching for his jock while Adam gets off a good scoring chance. Later (around 22 seconds in) you see his aggressiveness in the attacking zone pay off as he creates a steal where he anticipates the Dman’s pass, intercepts the puck, makes a strong move to the net, and Stevens is there to clean up and score. Around 54 seconds in, Adam shows great vision and awareness, he receives the puck along the boards in the neutral zone, delays while he draws two defenders, takes a peek over his shoulder, and then makes a backhanded centering pass to Sikura in full stride as he’s skating up the gut and about to enter the zone. Leads to another great opportunity. And then, of course, there’s Adam doing what he does best on the goal he scores just over a minute into the vid.

 

We talk about how great Gaudette is at one timers on the power play from the bottom of the left circle. And those goals are amazing. But some of the other plays you see in this video highlight the fact that Adam is no one trick pony.

 

 

[dpn1]

I don't know too much about the NCAA.  Realistically, when will AG's season end and will we see him in some games up here or will it be straight to the AHL this season?

[Quantum]

5 minutes ago, dpn1 said:

I don't know too much about the NCAA.  Realistically, when will AG's season end and will we see him in some games up here or will it be straight to the AHL this season?

He will want to play NHL games to burn a year off his contract (standard NCAA fare) and then he will be off for the summer. (He had to be papered at the deadline to get into games in the AHL playoffs by the NHL deadline). 

 

The only scenario he plays in the AHL this year is if he signs an AHL PTO deal and agrees to an NHL deal that kicks in this summer. However, that is unlikely.

 

As NCAA players go, I don't envision Gaudette spending much time in Utica. NCAA guys spend more time in the gym so they show up stronger then CHL prospects, that's why guys like Kerfoot, Butcher, Stecher, Boeser, and Hutton all made the leap without much AHL time... If at all. (Jost is an exception because he jumped to the NHL after only a year and most NCAA make the jump after 2-4 years, big difference.) Only reason Gaudette ends up in the AHL is if he legitimately doesn't make the team but I'm hard pressed to believe he won't.

 

Gaudette should add energy to the Canucks in the last few games and that's exciting.

 

 

[dpn1]

2 hours ago, Quantum said:

He will want to play NHL games to burn a year off his contract (standard NCAA fare) and then he will be off for the summer. (He had to be papered at the deadline to get into games in the AHL playoffs by the NHL deadline). 

 

The only scenario he plays in the AHL this year is if he signs an AHL PTO deal and agrees to an NHL deal that kicks in this summer. However, that is unlikely.

 

As NCAA players go, I don't envision Gaudette spending much time in Utica. NCAA guys spend more time in the gym so they show up stronger then CHL prospects, that's why guys like Kerfoot, Butcher, Stecher, Boeser, and Hutton all made the leap without much AHL time... If at all. (Jost is an exception because he jumped to the NHL after only a year and most NCAA make the jump after 2-4 years, big difference.) Only reason Gaudette ends up in the AHL is if he legitimately doesn't make the team but I'm hard pressed to believe he won't.

 

Gaudette should add energy to the Canucks in the last few games and that's exciting.

 

 

Thanks, I just don't know as much about the NCAA system and how it all works.

[SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME]

One thing I’m not sure about: if Gaudette and NU were to win the national championship, I believe the NHL season would finish before there would be a chance to sign him. Which I think would mean he couldn’t sign a 2017-18 contact (as that season would be over). Almost a dream scenario for all parties involved. He wins everything in his junior year of college (Beanpot, Hockey East, National Chanpionship, scoring title, and Hobey Baker), signs with Vancouver for next season, doesn’t burn a year off his ELC, and can sign an ATO and play for Utica for their playoff run this year.

[DS4quality]

6 minutes ago, SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME said:

One thing I’m not sure about: if Gaudette and NU were to win the national championship, I believe the NHL season would finish before there would be a chance to sign him. Which I think would mean he couldn’t sign a 2017-18 contact (as that season would be over). Almost a dream scenario for all parties involved. He wins everything in his junior year of college (Beanpot, Hockey East, National Chanpionship, scoring title, and Hobey Baker), signs with Vancouver for next season, doesn’t burn a year off his ELC, and can sign an ATO and play for Utica for their playoff run this year.

I hope he does, he sure looks like a lot of fun to watch...

[SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME]

Just now, DS4quality said:

I hope he does, he sure looks like a lot of fun to watch...

If nothing else, gives us one more reason to root for him during the NCAA tournament (as if we needed any more reasons ).