Gauthier, No. 3 in NHL Central Scouting's final ranking of North American skaters, finished in the top 10 in four categories during fitness testing at the NHL Scouting Combine on Friday and Saturday.
He topped all players with a peak power output of 18.3 watts per kilogram of body weight on the Wingate ergometer bike test, a 30-second full-out sprint that replicates a shift for a skater.
Gauthier (6-foot-2, 189 pounds) also was tied for fourth in the standing long jump (112.0 inches), and tied for ninth with pullups.
He also finished eighth in the pro agility shuttle run starting to the left (4.46 seconds) and 25th starting to the right (4.70 seconds), and was 14th in the vertical jump (19.04 inches). He also was 14th in the bench press of 50 percent of body weight, generating 7.65 watts per kilogram of body weight.
"I think I did pretty solid on everything and I was pretty happy with what I did," Gauthier said.
Forward Logan Cooley (5-10, 174), Gauthier's NTDP teammate, scored well on the stationary bike tests. He was tied for second in peak power output on the Wingate at 17.8 watts per kilogram of body weight, and his time of 14:20 on the VO2 Max bike test, which measures stamina, was eighth.
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Cooley, No. 2 in Central Scouting's final ranking of North American skaters, was tied for 16th in the vertical jump (18.58 inches), and seventh in the vertical jump from a squat position (15.97 inches).
"I think you always want to have the top scores, be the best one out there," he said. "You never want to be in second place or anything like that."
Northeastern University forward Jack Hughes (No. 26) was first with 19 pull-ups, third in the pro agility shuttle run starting to the left (4.40 seconds) and sixth starting to the right (4.55 seconds), was 13th in the vertical jump (19.25 inches), and had the second-lowest body fat percentage (6.86 percent). Hughes is the son of Montreal Canadiens general manager Kent Hughes.
Defenseman Maveric Lamoureux of Drummondville in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (No. 20) was first in the standing long jump (117.5 inches), and the vertical jump (22.42 inches). He also was fourth in the pro agility shuttle run starting to his right (4.48 seconds) and fifth starting to his left (4.43 seconds). Lamoureux (6-foot-7, 197 pounds), the second-tallest player at the combine, had the fourth-longest wingspan (79.75 inches).
Center Shane Wright of Kingston in the Ontario Hockey League, No. 1 in the final ranking of the North American skaters, was 10th in the vertical jump (20.19 inches), tied for 10th in the vertical jump from a squat position (15.61 inches) and 15th in the standing long jump (107.8 inches). He also tied for ninth in the pro agility shuttle run starting to his left (4.49 seconds) and 11th starting to his right (4.62 seconds).
Left wing Juraj Slafkovsky, the No. 1 ranked International skater, did not take part in the fitness testing after playing his final game for Slovakia at the 2022 IIHF World Championship on May 26, four days before the combine began.
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NHL.com independent correspondent Heather Engel contributed to this report
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