Paul Gaustad

Paul Gaustad
Date of birth	3rd February 1982
place of birth	Fargo , North Dakota , USA
Nickname	The Goose
size	196 cm
Weight	102 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 7th lap, 220th position Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1999-2003	Portland Winter Hawks
2003-2005	Rochester Americans
2005–2012	Buffalo Sabers
2012-2016	Nashville Predators

Paul Michael Gaustad (* 3. February 1982 in Fargo , North Dakota ) is a retired American ice hockey player , who during his playing career from 1999 to 2016 among other 795 games for the Buffalo Sabers and Nashville Predators in the National Hockey League on the Has contested the center's position .

Career

Gaustad in the jersey of the Buffalo Sabers

Gaustad was selected by the Buffalo Sabers in the seventh round as 220th in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft . During the summer off game, he lived in Portland , Oregon , where he began his career with the Portland Winter Hawks in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League .

Before he began in 1999 to play for the Winter Hawks, he was in Burnaby Express , a junior team in Burnaby in the province of British Columbia , the British Columbia Hockey League active. In three seasons for the Winter Hawks, he scored 135 points (53 goals, 82 assists ). In the 2002/03 season he played with the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League . In his first year with the Sabers farm team , he scored 14 goals and prepared another 39 goals, and he was also allowed to play his first NHL game. However, he had to wait two years for another use in the NHL, during which he continued to play for the Americans. In his NHL rookie - 2005/06 season he scored nine goals and 15 assists and played in all 18 playoff games the Sabers in which he contributed another four assists.

In the 2006/07 season , Paul Gaustad, whom his teammates only call The Goose , played either with Chris Drury and Aleš Kotalík in the second row or as the center of the fourth row. In early February he suffered injuries in a collision with Dany Heatley , which were ultimately diagnosed as a torn ligament, so that the 2006/07 season ended prematurely for him. In the summer of 2008, Gaustad extended his contract with the Sabers for four more years.

Since his contract expired after the 2011/12 season and the Sabers no longer planned with the striker, they transferred him on February 27, 2012 together with a four-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 2013 in exchange for a first-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 2012 to the Nashville Predators . Gaustad played there after a contract extension until the summer of 2016, before he officially ended his career at the age of 34 on September 8, 2016.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1999/00	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		56	6th	8th	14th	110		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		70	11	30th	41	168		16	10	6th	16	59
2001/02	Portland Winter Hawks	WHL		72	36	44	80	202		6th	3	1	4th	16
2002/03	Rochester Americans	AHL		80	14th	39	53	137		3	0	0	0	4th
2002/03	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Rochester Americans	AHL		78	9	22nd	31	169		16	3	10	13	30th
2004/05	Rochester Americans	AHL		76	18th	25th	43	192		9	6th	5	11	16
2005/06	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		78	9	15th	24	65		18th	0	4th	4th	14th
2006/07	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		54	9	13	22nd	74		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		82	10	26th	36	85		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		62	12	17th	29	108		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		65	12	10	22nd	82		6th	0	1	1	8th
2010/11	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		81	12	19th	31	101		7th	0	2	2	13
2011/12	Buffalo Sabers	NHL		56	7th	10	17th	70		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Nashville Predators	NHL		14th	0	4th	4th	6th		10	1	1	2	5
2012/13	Nashville Predators	NHL		23	2	3	5	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Nashville Predators	NHL		75	10	11	21st	61		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Nashville Predators	NHL		73	4th	10	14th	60		6th	0	0	0	22nd
2015/16	Nashville Predators	NHL		63	2	4th	6th	46		14th	1	0	1	0
WHL overall				198	53	82	135	478		22nd	13	7th	20th	75
AHL total				234	41	86	127	498		28	9	15th	24	50
NHL overall				727	89	142	231	778		68	2	9	11	64

International

Represented the USA at:

• World Championship 2011

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011	United States	WM	8th place		6th	0	1	1	4th
Men overall					6th	0	1	1	4th

( 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

• Paul Gaustad at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Paul Gaustad at eliteprospects.com (English)