Adam Gaudette

Adam Gaudette
Date of birth	October 3, 1996
place of birth	Braintree , Massachusetts , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2015 , 5th round, 149th position Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
2014-2015	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2015-2018	Northeastern University
since 2018	Vancouver Canucks Utica Comets

Adam Gaudette (born October 3, 1996 in Braintree , Massachusetts ) is an American ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League since March 2018 and also for their farm team, the Utica Comets , in American Hockey League is used.

Career

Adam Gaudette attended the Thayer Academy in his hometown Braintree in his youth and ran for their ice hockey team in a regional high school league. For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the United States Hockey League (USHL), the highest junior league in the United States. For the RoughRiders, the center forward scored 30 points scorer in 50 games and was then considered in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft in 149th position by the Vancouver Canucks .

For now, however, Gaudette returned to his native Massachusetts and enrolled at Northeastern University , with whose ice hockey team he took part in the game operation of Hockey East , a college league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In his first year he won the Hockey East championship with the Northeastern Huskies , before he significantly increased his personal statistics in the following season and was elected to the Hockey East Third All-Star Team after 52 points from 37 games . The attacker ended the 2017/18 season with 30 goals and 30 assists, was named Hockey East's best scorer and thus named their player of the year and appointed to the First All-Star team . He was also nominated as one of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award , which recognizes the best college player in the United States. There he ultimately prevailed against Ryan Donato and Henrik Borgström .

After the college season ended, Gaudette signed an entry-level contract with the Vancouver Canucks in late March 2018 and made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) a few days later .

Achievements and Awards

2016 Hockey East Championship with Northeastern University 2017 Hockey East Third All-Star Team 2018 Hockey East Player of the Year

2018 Hockey East First All-Star Team 2018 Hobey Baker Memorial Award

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014/15	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		50	13	17th	30th	+23	55		3	0	0	0	-4	4th
2015/16	Northeastern University	NCAA		41	12	18th	30th	± 0	20th
2016/17	Northeastern University	NCAA		37	26th	26th	52	+4	20th
2017/18	Northeastern University	NCAA		38	30th	30th	60	+12	41
2017/18	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		5	0	0	0	+2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		56	5	7th	12	−8	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Utica Comets	AHL		14th	5	6th	11	+1	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				116	68	74	142	+16	81
NHL overall				61	5	7th	12	−6	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Player biography on the Vancouver Canucks website
• Adam Gaudette at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Canucks sign Adam Gaudette. nhl.com, March 26, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .