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Yanni Gourde

Position	Center / Left Wing	Current Team	Tampa Bay Lightning
Shoots	Left	Current Contract	6 years
Height	5'9"	Expires	2030-31
Weight (lbs)	173	Expiry Age (Jun 30)	39
Age	33 (Dec 15, 1991)	Expiry Status	UFA
Drafted	Undrafted

Date	Team	Transaction
Jun 2, 2025	Tampa Bay Lightning	Signed 6 years @ $2.333M AAV starting in 2025-26
Mar 5, 2025	Tampa Bay Lightning	Acquired from Seattle Kraken
Mar 5, 2025	Seattle Kraken	Traded to Tampa Bay Lightning
Mar 4, 2025	Seattle Kraken	Activated from LTIR
Feb 21, 2025	Seattle Kraken	Placed on LTIR
Jan 5, 2025	Seattle Kraken	Placed on IR
Nov 2, 2018	Tampa Bay Lightning	Signed 6 years @ $5.167M AAV starting in 2019-20
Jun 26, 2017	Tampa Bay Lightning	Signed 2 years @ $1.000M AAV starting in 2017-18
Jul 25, 2016	Tampa Bay Lightning	Signed 1 year @ $575K AAV starting in 2016-17
Mar 10, 2014	Tampa Bay Lightning	Signed to an entry level contract.

Status History Coming Soon

2025-26 Player Card

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2024-25 Player Card

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Player cards present an infographic of a players performance. In this case it shows the player performance over a 3 season span. Each square is separated into three separate sub-boxes with the two smaller boxes on top representing the past two seasons and the larger box on the bottom representing the current or most recent season. This allows the reader to guage how consistent a player has been, and if early in the season it can help identify whether a players performance may be impacted by small sample size and subject to regression or is consistent with recent past performance.

Notes and Definitions

The numbers represent percentiles so the higher the better.
Percentiles are determined by comparing Forwards to Forwards and Defensemen to Defensemen.
Bursts/mi are calculated from NHL Edge Data are are speed bursts above 20mpg per mile skated. The NHL doesn't adjust for ice time so the players that skate more will naturally have more bursts over 20, or at least more opportunity to have more. The NHL also does not provide ice time in the context of NHL Edge Statistics, however, it does provide distance skated. By adjusting for distance skated it will have a similar effect to adjusting for ice time but also adjust for situationional effect. For example, Players don't typically skate as much on the PK, mostly within the defensive zone, so don't get significant opportunity in that ice time to get speed bursts above 20mph. Adjusting with miles skates would account for this better than adjusting with ice time.
Sh%AE is Shooting Percentage above Expected (Sh% - xSh%) and is an indicator of how good a shooter is at converting chances into goals.
Relative statistics are On Ice - Off Ice statistics and can be an indicator of whether the player makes his teammates better or worse.
All data is 5v5 except Shooting Hardest and Average, Skating Top Speed and Bursts/mi which are all situations, ES Average which is even strength (NHL doesn't give a specific definition).

Data Sources

Salary data is from TheStanleyCap.com
Shooting and Skating (except Sh%AE) are from NHL Edge
Other statistics are from Puckalytics.com and derived from data from NHL.com

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5v5 Individual Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	G/60	A/60	Pts/60	xG/60	GAE/60	Sh%	xSh%	Sh%AE	%SA Rush	%SA Reb.
2015-16	TBL	2	12:25	0.00	4.83	4.83	0.61	-0.61	-	-	-	0.00	0.00
2016-17	TBL	20	252:27	0.95	0.24	1.19	0.61	0.34	16.67	10.76	5.90	0.00	6.06
2017-18	TBL	82	1038:10	0.92	1.73	2.66	0.67	0.25	14.55	10.56	3.98	4.64	6.62
2018-19	TBL	80	964:57	0.87	1.18	2.05	0.68	0.19	13.73	10.78	2.95	5.22	9.70
2019-20	TBL	70	790:06	0.46	0.91	1.37	0.63	-0.17	6.38	8.83	-2.45	4.27	8.55
2020-21	TBL	56	699:22	0.94	1.20	2.14	0.81	0.13	12.50	10.73	1.77	5.41	10.81
2021-22	SEA	74	1028:15	0.76	1.05	1.81	0.64	0.12	13.27	11.15	2.12	4.23	4.93
2022-23	SEA	81	1111:13	0.38	1.62	2.00	0.61	-0.23	6.03	9.78	-3.74	2.44	5.49
2023-24	SEA	80	1128:08	0.48	0.85	1.33	0.75	-0.28	6.52	10.28	-3.76	3.02	8.04
2024-25	SEA	36	470:09	0.51	1.28	1.79	0.54	-0.02	12.50	13.11	-0.61	0.00	5.17
2024-25	TBL	21	315:26	0.19	2.09	2.28	0.62	-0.43	3.03	9.94	-6.91	4.00	10.00
2024-25	SEA, TBL	57	785:35	0.38	1.60	1.99	0.57	-0.19	7.69	11.50	-3.81	1.85	7.41
2025-26	TBL	21	277:39	0.65	0.43	1.08	0.61	0.03	9.68	9.17	0.51	4.76	9.52

5v5 On Ice Stats

Season	Team(s)	GP	TOI	SAF/60	GF/60	xGF/60	SAA/60	GA/60	xGA/60	GF%	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
2015-16	TBL	2	12:25	19.33	4.83	2.03	48.32	0.00	1.41	100.00	59.04	-0.33	-0.34	1.61
2016-17	TBL	20	252:27	48.01	1.66	2.75	36.36	2.14	2.13	43.75	56.32	0.44	-0.28	7.36
2017-18	TBL	82	1038:10	44.10	3.64	2.83	41.84	1.91	2.45	65.62	53.60	0.11	-0.06	1.57
2018-19	TBL	80	964:57	44.58	3.17	2.78	41.72	2.92	2.51	52.04	52.48	0.03	-0.00	0.32
2019-20	TBL	70	790:06	42.68	2.13	2.44	38.43	2.66	2.16	44.44	52.99	-0.12	-0.13	0.28
2020-21	TBL	56	699:22	46.07	2.83	2.72	36.29	2.32	2.23	55.00	54.91	0.39	-0.03	4.14
2021-22	SEA	74	1028:15	39.91	2.33	2.39	38.22	2.98	2.33	43.96	50.65	0.02	-0.02	0.41
2022-23	SEA	81	1111:13	46.06	3.19	2.70	36.45	2.16	2.36	59.60	53.35	0.14	0.00	1.30
2023-24	SEA	80	1128:08	44.36	1.91	2.45	43.72	2.39	2.42	44.44	50.32	0.13	0.15	-0.26
2024-25	SEA	36	470:09	45.82	2.55	2.31	38.54	2.94	2.16	46.51	51.62	0.17	-0.31	5.29
2024-25	TBL	21	315:26	43.75	2.66	2.57	40.90	2.09	2.33	56.00	52.49	0.17	0.13	0.34
2024-25	SEA, TBL	57	785:35	44.99	2.60	2.41	39.49	2.60	2.23	50.00	51.99	0.18	-0.14	3.54
2025-26	TBL	21	277:39	35.87	2.38	2.02	35.44	1.94	2.13	55.00	48.71	-0.60	0.02	-6.63

NHL Edge Stats

		Skating				Shooting					Zone Time
Season	GP	Top Speed	Bursts>20/mi	Avg. Speed	ES Avg. Speed	Top Speed	Avg. Speed	%Long Range	%Mid Range	%High Danger	ES DZ%	ES NZ%	ES OZ%
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Legend

Percentile 0-25

Percentile 25-50

Percentile 50-75

Percentile 75-100

Forwards are compared with forwards and Defensemen are are compared with Defensemen.

5v5 Lines

Season

Season	Teammate	Teammate	Team	TOI	GF/60	GA/60	GF%	xGF/60	xGA/60	xGF%	xGF Rel	xGA Rel	xGF% Rel
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Glossary

Type	Statistic	Definition
Individual	G/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes.
Individual	A/60	Assists per 60 minutes.
Individual	Pts/60	Points per 60 minutes.
Individual	xG/60	Expected Goals per 60 minutes.
Individual	GAE/60	Goals Above Expected (G/60 - xG/60).
Individual	Sh%	Shooting Percentage.
Individual	xSh%	Expected Shooting Percentage.
Individual	Sh%AE	Shooting percentage above expected (Sh% - xSh%).
Individual	%SA Rush	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be on the rush.
Individual	%SA Reb.	Percentage of shot attempts determined to be from rebounds.
On Ice	SAF/60	Shot Attempts For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	GF/60	Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	xGF/60	Expected Goals For per 60 minutes.
On Ice	SAA/60	Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GA/60	Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	xGA/60	Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
On Ice	GF%	Goals For Percentage = Goals For / (Goals For + Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF%	Expected Goals For Percentage = Expected Goals For / (Expected Goals For + Expected Goals Against)
On Ice	xGF Rel	xGF/60 when On Ice - xGF/60 when not On Ice.
On Ice	xGA Rel	xGA/60 when On Ice - xGA/60 when not On Ice (lower is better).
On Ice	xGF% Rel	xGF% when On Ice - xGF% when not On Ice.

Individual and On-Ice stats from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16). NHL Edge Stats from edge.nhl.com (starting in 2021-22). Edge statistic definitions can be found at the Edge Stats Glossary.

News and Opinions

Jonas Johansson backstops Lightning to 4-2 victory over Mammoth at Raw Charge (Sun Nov 2, 2025)
Opportunity abounds for Lightning players at Raw Charge (Thu Jul 31, 2025)
Lightning’s 5 Best Offseason Moves at The Hockey Writers (Mon Jul 28, 2025)
Free agent memories: Yanni Gourde at Bolts by the Bay (Tue Jul 1, 2025)
Yanni Gourde staying put in Tampa Bay at Bolts by the Bay (Mon Jun 2, 2025)
The future of Yanni Gourde at Bolts by the Bay (Wed May 28, 2025)
Crunch time in Tampa Bay: trade deadline breakdown at Bolts by the Bay (Mon Mar 31, 2025)
Another blockbuster move for the Kraken at Kraken Chronicle (Wed Mar 5, 2025)
Is Yanni Gourde’s time in Seattle coming to an end? at Kraken Chronicle (Fri Feb 28, 2025)
Seattle Kraken’s three most likely trade candidates ahead of the deadline at Kraken Chronicle (Thu Feb 27, 2025)

Current Contract

Yanni Gourde signed a $14,000,000 6-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Julien Brisebois on June 2, 2025 with an AAV of $2,333,333. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2030-31 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 2.44% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2025-26	33	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$2,010,000	$1,000,000	$3,010,000	$3,010,000	UFA
2026-27	34	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$2,010,000	$1,000,000	$3,010,000	$3,010,000	UFA
2027-28	35	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$1,560,000	$1,000,000	$2,560,000	$2,560,000	UFA
2028-29	36	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$808,000	$1,000,000	$1,808,000	$1,808,000	UFA
2029-30	37	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$806,000	$1,000,000	$1,806,000	$1,806,000	UFA
2030-31	38	NTC	$2,333,333	$2,333,333	-	$806,000	$1,000,000	$1,806,000	$1,806,000	UFA
Total					-	$8,000,000	$6,000,000	$14,000,000	$14,000,000

Signed: June 2, 2025

Team: Tampa Bay Lightning

GM: Julien Brisebois

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 2.44

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Yanni Gourde signed a $31,000,000 6-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Julien Brisebois on November 2, 2018 with an AAV of $5,166,666. This contract will start in 2019-20 and end after the 2024-25 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 6.34% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2019-20	27	NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$6,300,000	$6,300,000	$6,300,000	UFA
2020-21	28	NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$4,100,000	$4,100,000	$4,100,000	UFA
2021-22	29	NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$6,300,000	$6,300,000	$6,300,000	UFA
2022-23	30	M-NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$4,100,000	$4,100,000	$4,100,000	UFA
2023-24	31	M-NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$5,100,000	$5,100,000	$5,100,000	UFA
2024-25	32	M-NTC	$5,166,666	$5,166,666	-	-	$5,100,000	$5,100,000	$5,100,000	UFA
Total					-	-	$31,000,000	$31,000,000	$31,000,000

Signed: Nov 2, 2018

Team: Tampa Bay Lightning

GM: Julien Brisebois

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 6.34

Clause: Full no trade clause in years 1-3. For years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 player submits a 22 team trade list. If the league expands to 32 teams player must submit a 23 team trade list.

Retained Salary: Seattle Kraken retained 50.0% of total salary on March 5, 2025

Retained Salary: Detroit Red Wings retained 25.0% of total salary on March 5, 2025

Yanni Gourde signed a $2,000,000 2-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Steve Yzerman on June 26, 2017 with an AAV of $1,000,000. This contract will start in 2017-18 and end after the 2018-19 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.33% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (UFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2017-18	25	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	-	-	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	UFA-Grp6
2018-19	26	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	-	-	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	$1,000,000	RFA-arb
Total				-	-	$2,000,000	$2,000,000	$2,000,000

Signed: June 26, 2017

Team: Tampa Bay Lightning

GM: Steve Yzerman

Exp. Status: UFA

Cap %: 1.33

Yanni Gourde signed a $575,000 1-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Steve Yzerman on July 25, 2016 with an AAV of $575,000. This contract will start in 2016-17 and end after the 2016-17 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.79% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Clause	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2016-17	24		$575,000	$575,000	-	-	$575,000	$575,000	$100,000	RFA-arb
Total					-	-	$575,000	$575,000	$100,000

Signed: July 25, 2016

Team: Tampa Bay Lightning

GM: Steve Yzerman

Exp. Status: UFA-Grp6

Cap %: 0.79

Note: Guaranteed minimum salary is $125,000.

Yanni Gourde signed a $1,175,000 2-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning and General Manager Steve Yzerman on March 10, 2014 with an AAV of $587,500. This contract will start in 2014-15 and end after the 2015-16 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.85% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( ) (0 ratings)

Season	Age*	Cap Hit	AAV	Perf. Bonus	Sign. Bonus	Salary	Compensation	Minors Salary	Status
2014-15	22	$587,500	$587,500	-	$25,000	$550,000	$575,000	$70,000	ELC
2015-16	23	$587,500	$587,500	-	$25,000	$575,000	$600,000	$70,000	ELC
Total				-	$50,000	$1,125,000	$1,175,000	$140,000

Signed: Mar 10, 2014

Team: Tampa Bay Lightning

GM: Steve Yzerman

Exp. Status: RFA-arb

Career Statistics

			Regular Season									Playoffs
Season	League	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM	Shots	Sh%	TOI/G
2007-08	QMAAA	Lévis Chevaliers	2	0	0	0
2008-09	QMJHL	Victoriaville	4	0	1	1	-2		3	0.0
2008-09	QAAA	Jonquiere	41	23	30	53		50				4	1	5	6		6
2009-10	QMJHL	Victoriaville	59	11	17	28	+19	36	78	1,410.0		16	2	3	5	-1	20	22	910.0
2010-11	QMJHL	Victoriaville	68	26	42	68	+28	48	182	1,430.0		9	4	6	10	+3	12	23	1,740.0
2011-12	AHL	Worcester	4	1	2	3	-1		10	1,000.0
2011-12	QMJHL	Victoriaville	68	37	87	124	+29	70	186	1,990.0		4	1	2	3	-2	6	9	1,110.0
2012-13	AHL	Worcester	54	8	6	14	-11	41	85	940.0
2012-13	ECHL	San Francisco	8	4	6	10	+1	9	25	1,600.0
2013-14	ECHL	Kalamazoo	30	15	19	34	+9	19
2013-14	AHL	Worcester	25	4	20	24	+2	26	65	620.0
2013-14	AHL	Syracuse	18	2	6	8	-4	16	39	510.0
2014-15	AHL	Syracuse	76	29	28	57	+13	61	163	1,780.0		3	1	1	2		10	9	1,110.0
2015-16	AHL	Syracuse	65	14	30	44	+8	42	127	1,100.0
2015-16	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	2	0	1	1	+1	2		0.0	7:19
2016-17	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	20	6	2	8	-1	8	30	20.0	15:22
2016-17	AHL	Syracuse Crunch	56	22	26	48	+11	54				22	9	18	27	+15	29
2017-18	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	82	25	39	64	+34	50	136	18.4	16:09	17	2	5	7		8	27	7.4	14:48
2018-19	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	80	22	26	48	+9	66	130	16.9	15:50	4	1		1	-3		5	20.0	12:40
2019-20	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	70	10	20	30	-5	49	110	9.1	14:04	25	7	7	14	+12	19	54	13.0	18:19
2020-21	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	56	17	19	36	+10	44	118	14.4	17:04	23	6	1	7	+4	13	45	13.3	17:36
2021-22	NHL	Seattle Kraken	74	21	27	48	-13	45	127	16.5	18:29
2022-23	NHL	Seattle Kraken	81	14	34	48	+23	76	141	9.9	17:08	14	4	9	13	+1	14	25	16.0	19:38
2023-24	NHL	Seattle Kraken	80	11	22	33	-11	62	156	7.1	17:27
2024-25	NHL	Seattle Kraken	36	6	11	17	-5	36	40	15.0	15:30
2024-25	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	21	1	13	14	+4	16	35	2.9	17:00	5		1	1	-3		2	0.0	14:31
2025-26	NHL	Tampa Bay Lightning	22	3	3	6	+1	16	34	8.8	16:12
NHL Career			624	136	217	353	+47	470	1057	12.9	16:28	88	20	23	43	+11	54	158	12.6	17:11