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Adam Gaudette

Adam Gaudette
Pine card · 2026-27

Pine Net Rating v0.1: no NHL games in 2026-27 yet. A rating prints at 200 five-on-five minutes.

Position
R
Number
#81
Shoots
R
Age
30
Size
6'1", 190 lb
Status
Under contract
Pieces here
20

No NHL games in the 2026-27 regular season, so there is nothing to rank yet.

Projected net rating
Per 82 games. Solid: rated seasons on file (6). Dotted: the forecast along the league aging curve for his position; the band is the 10th to 90th percentile of outcomes, and it widens because each year adds its own uncertainty. Baseline +0.5 from 3 recent seasons, shrunk 15% of the way toward the league forward mean.
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2027-28: -1.7 (range -22.4 to +19.0). 2031-32: -6.7 (range -40.8 to +27.4). No dollar line yet: market value waits on a league contract table.

Difficulty not measured. Quality of competition and teammates has no free public source this pipe can reach (Natural Stat Trick blocks scripts); no paid source was taken on, a 2026-09-12 call.
Contract $2M cap hit · 1 year left · UFA July 2027. PuckPedia and CapWages, via the cap sheet.

Sources: NHL.com for the roster, bio and counting line; MoneyPuck for expected goals, on-ice chances, blocks and penalties; PuckPedia and CapWages for the contract. Updated 2026-10-19. The rating, the forecast and the value line are this site's own, from public data, with the method published.

On the record

Called Shots →
OpenAug 25, 2026

Adam Gaudette dresses for fewer than 60 of San Jose's 84 regular-season games in 2026-27, down from 66 of 82 in 2025-26.

OpenAug 29, 2026

San Jose scores 2.0 or fewer goals per sixty minutes at even strength with Zack Ostapchuk on the ice across the club's first 25 games of 2026-27, no better than the 1.6 he posted across 59 games in 2025-26.

Written about him

San Jose changed its first line on Monday, and the other three with it
Lines

San Jose changed its first line on Monday, and the other three with it

San Jose practiced on October 12 with four new forward lines: Chernyshov-Celebrini-Smith, Stenberg-Misa-Sherwood, Marchment-Wennberg-Toffoli and Ostapchuk between Graf and either Dellandrea or Gaudette, with Barclay Goodrow off the ice with an illness and questionable for Tuesday's game against Boston. The defense pairs did not change. Ivar Stenberg, 19, replaced Chernyshov on the first power-play unit; San Jose is 2 for 13 on the power play and 0 for 7 over its last three games. Warsofsky said the club is not playing in the offensive zone enough to create offense. At five-on-five San Jose has scored 7 goals and allowed 13 through five games, with 34.3 percent of MoneyPuck's expected goals, 31st of 32 clubs; last season's full-year share was 47.6 percent. Boston, 4-2-0, has allowed 7 five-on-five goals in six games.

Grant LombardOct 13, 20264 min read
Only Macklin Celebrini Scored Faster Than Adam Gaudette Last Season
Season preview

Only Macklin Celebrini Scored Faster Than Adam Gaudette Last Season

Adam Gaudette scored 17 goals in 66 games last season on 11:28 a night, a rate of 1.35 goals per sixty minutes that only Macklin Celebrini beat among the forwards San Jose returns. He is also the thirteenth forward in most published projections of the 2026-27 lineup, he must clear waivers to be sent anywhere, and he is in the final year of a two-year deal at $2,000,000. The season's question is not whether he can finish. It is whether a deeper team gives him anything to finish.

Dom CahillAug 25, 20266 min read

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