200 games is sometimes considered the cut-off mark for a draft pick to be considered a successful draft pick.
Only 3,305 / 7,850 players have hit the 200 game mark in NHL history.
Brendan Gaunce has played 207 games with 34 points (15 goals/19 assists).
It took awhile but he finally got there after 10 seasons.
Edit: 7,850 players have played an NHL game according to NHL.con stats. Some were undrafted and not all draft picks make the NHL.
It's still fucking wild to me that Gaunce and Pearson are both from the same draft and were only picked 4 spots apart.
Feels like Pearson should be 5 years older.
When Pearson was drafted it was his third year being eligible so he is a bit older than Gaunce
Wow that is insane. You're totally right.
Wow I thought Pearson was in his late 30s and Gaunce was still in his mid 20s for some reason
Tbf, Gaunce was 18 when he was drafted while Pearson was 20 and made it into the NHL very quickly.
Pearson went undrafted twice before he got drafted 30th overall... I think.
I love careers like this. 12 year pro career. Played parts of 10 seasons in the NHL, but with a career high of 57 games, and no other season where he played even half a season. When his current contract ends, he'll have made about $6 million in career earnings. Not bad for a hockey player most casual fans may have never heard of.
I've heard of him but only because I'm an Avs fan and we drafted his brother, Cameron, 50th overall in 2008. He played all of 37 games in the National.
If he wasn't drafted by the 'Nux, I likely wouldn't know him.
Former (Abbotsford) Canuck Matt Irwin is from my area and I always thought he nailed it. He was always good but never great growing up, especially since we also had Jamie Benn at Peninsula and even he wasn’t expected to make the NHL. But then Matt Irwin works hard and ends up having a ten year career making NHL wages for most of it.
6’3” 220 lbs, you can’t teach size!!
Never thought I'd see the day where Gaunce would be called successful but hey, 200 games is 200 games I guess. That's actually a pretty wild stat about only 42% of drafted players hitting that mark
That's not 42% of drafted players. Only 42% of players who have played in the NHL have played 200+ games.
The percentage of drafted players would be much much lower. 200+ players are drafted each year
I didn't understand how the OP displayed this either.
The majority of players drafted by NHL teams will never have NHL careers.
Yeah I messed up, I meant that's the number of players who have played 1 game. Was too focused on talking about draft picks.
It’s far less than 42% of drafted players, it’s 42% of NHL players at all hit that mark.
Its too bad development wasn't a priority when he was selected. Im a beleiver that opportunity and circumstance plays a role in how players succeed
26th overall picks
He's probably in the top half, barely, but it shows what a crap shoot even late first rounders are.
For the past ~20 years that's a pretty good group actually. from 2005-2020 there's only maybe 4-6 actual busts (including Gaunce). I'd imagine the average late first doesn't have as good a group as this.
Lots of Canucks goalies in there!
Hopefully, when we pick 26th this summer with Minnesota's pick, we get a Tage Thompson, Claude Lemieux, or Brent Ashton.
27th* currently as it stands we'd be picking 27th with that pick
I'm counting on a bit of a slump.
That would be nice obviously especially if they fall even further down the standings.
I have a feeling they're going to pick up a decent 2C for a good run in the playoffs. As of now, they'd play Dallas in the first round, and if they win that series, they'd still have to get by Colorado. I think playoff results factor into the draft order, but not sure how. Anyway, I'm glad the 'Nux will be picking at least twice in the first. Ideally, I'd like them to pick up another first and another second, to have 5 picks in the first two rounds.
If we trade Sherwood he should get us another first minimum. So having three in a deep draft would be excellent. I'd like it if we could snag Caleb Malhotra with one of the extra picks.
Good family lines. Sportsnet has him ranked #28, so there's a pretty good chance he'll be there when they pick.
I never did understand why we didn't re-sign him. Nothing happened when he was on ice which was a pretty good quality to have as a 4th line centre. Basically what Kampf is for us now.
Guys like that tend to move around. There's no real reason not to sign him, but no real reason to sign him either. Not too difficult to pick up a player to fill the same role - basically a call-up who's not going to hurt you, and good player and veteran on your AHL team. Every team has a few, and they tend to get pretty good salaries, even when they play the whole year in the minors. Gaunce makes $775k in the NHL and $550k in the minors. He's done well for himself.
You talking about 2C David Kampf?
Do you mean 1C David Kampf?
Really, he’s been gone 6 years
Wasn't that the year Benning went all in on beagle?
Could’ve kept Nick Dowd as an option too over Beagle
Still doing his thing for the Caps
Yup. The ripple effect was awful.
Contgrats to Gauncy.
Are you saying 7850 is the number of players drafted?
Number of guys to actually suit up for an NHL game.
~20,000 (to 25,000) estimate of drafted players
7850 suited up for a game
Between 31% and 39% of drafted players have suited up for an NHL game; 42% of those have been successful of reaching 200 games played
Roughly 16% of drafted players will reach 200 game milestone, could be as little as 13% depending on total number drafted.
7850 players have suited up in the NHL but many of those have not been drafted. Given this, you would have to adjust the math.
Between 10% and 13% of current rosters (and seemingly annually for the recent past) are constituted of undrafted players.
Obviously you’d need to go thru and work the numbers better, but I’m content with saying ~6,908 have been drafted while the rest were undrafted
First nhl draft was 1963, so before that would they count as undrafted?
Sorry, all my stats are 1963 onwards
Man I like to go down memory lane and look at our old draft picks on hockeydb from time to time but I clearly haven’t looked up again in ages. If you’d have asked me to guess I’d say he quit pro hockey years ago or maybe was in the DEL or something. Good for him sticking with it honestly.
Yeah I saw before the season started that he was close to 200 games, so made sure to check for updates a few times this season.
What’s crazy is that when he was drafted they basically said that his ceiling was a third or fourth line player.
It's insane that Gaunce is having one of the longest careers of players to come out of the 2012 first round
Mark my words.... he will be traded at the deadline and we will be forced to call him Stanley Cup Champion, Brendan Gaunce.
Didn't realize he was still around. Looking at his career kind of unusual he ended up in Europe and was able to make it back.
Covid year in Sweden, won the SHL championship....
That makes sense. What a weird year.
There’s only ever been 7850 players? Even players who only played 1 NHL game?
Well, what’s it, 18 skaters and 2 goalies a night? With injuries and trades you can potentially see a lot more throughout a season, but they won’t always be brand new 0 game players, right? So idk, if 32 teams dress 20 guys each that’s 640 players. Of course players will go in and out, but you can only make your regular season NHL debut once.
So going back a few years… that number probably doesn’t get much bigger. The Pens for example have rostered Letang, Malkin and Crosby for like up to 20 years.
And then of course before 1967 we only had up to 6 teams, so that’s not a lot. NHL expansion only brought it to 12 then too.
Yes. That’s how hard it is to make.
Yeah I thought it was a mistake, but I used NHL.com stats pages
the knock on him was always his footspeed
Canucks surely have that 2.5x3 ready when he's a UFA
Instead of him playing zero event 4th line minutes for league minimum, IIRC, Benning vastly overpaid Jay Beagle to do the same thing.
I don't necessarily disagree, but there is always room for debate given there is no single definition of what is a successful draft pick. Ranking the 2012 draft by games played, Gaunce ranks below his draft position. On that, you could argue is was a bit unsuccessful. But the late first round up to the mid second round is usually pretty comparable. So overall, I'd say the interpretation is pretty ambiguous.
What about Ollie Juolevi