Charlie Gardiner played 7 seasons (1928–1934) for Chicago Blackhawks. Late Developer career, peaking in 1932. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1945.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
7 seasons · peak 18.9 in 1932 · league-best seasons: 1932, 1934
Career boards only, within NHL
Cross-sport prominence: 90.1th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustNHL Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleNHL Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsNHL Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamNHL Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Skaters and Goalies)
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
Fan Rating
Rate Charlie Gardiner — All-Time
VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
19.1 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1932 · +5.4 wins
Latest season · 1934 · +4.5 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Charlie Gardiner led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Late Developer
Peaked in the back half of their career — got better with age. Peak 1932, 7 rated seasons.
Swipe sideways for the full stat line →
Gave the Chicago Blackhawks an entire corpus-attributed career — 7 seasons (1928–1934), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.