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+1.3
Pine Net Rating v0.1: goals above replacement over 8 games. 113 of 200 five-on-five minutes; his rank prints at 200.
- Position
- C
- Number
- #21
- Shoots
- L
- Age
- 32
- Size
- 6'2", 190 lb
- Ice time
- 20:27 a game
- Games
- 8
- Status
- Under contract
- Pieces here
- 52
2026-27 regular season: 8 games, 164 minutes.
2027-28: +1.1 (range -18.4 to +20.7). 2031-32: -5.4 (range -38.3 to +27.5). No dollar line yet: market value waits on a league contract table.
The number on each bar is his percentile among league forwards with 200 or more minutes at 5-on-5 (special teams: 30 or more minutes on the unit); each block prints the size of that group. Higher is better on every bar; chances against are inverted so 90% always reads well.
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 →Barclay Goodrow averages less than 1:55 of shorthanded ice time per game across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27, down from 1:55 across all 82 games in 2025-26.
Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.
Alexander Wennberg finishes the 2026-27 regular season with more power-play points than Michael Misa.
Written about him
Both Nashville goals followed faceoffs Wennberg lost
San Jose won the five-on-five scoring and survived in a shootout after Nashville scored twice following faceoff wins over Alexander Wennberg.
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.
Edmonton got one shot when McDavid met Wennberg's line, and seven when he didn't
Edmonton beat San Jose 3-1 in regulation, with McDavid's five-on-five damage concentrated in his minutes away from Wennberg.
Wennberg and Trouba get the other team's top line at SAP Center
Wennberg's line drew the heavier top-line matchup at home, while Celebrini's line took more defensive-zone faceoffs; practice this week kept Allan and Trouba together and moved Stenberg's line.
The Ice Time Michael Misa Is Missing Is Mostly Not Even Strength
Alexander Wennberg averaged 20:27 a night across 80 games last season and Michael Misa averaged 12:49 across 45. Hockey Reference splits that 7:38 gap three ways: 3:19 of it is even strength, 2:11 is power play and 2:08 is the penalty kill, where Misa's column reads 0:00. Every projection on file moves Misa into Wennberg's job. Most of the ice time attached to that job is not the part a promotion delivers.
Of Alexander Wennberg's Twenty And A Half Minutes A Night, Five And A Half Came On Special Teams
Alexander Wennberg scored 55 points in 80 games last season and averaged 20:27 a night. Three minutes twenty of that was power play, second on the whole roster behind Macklin Celebrini, and two minutes eight was penalty kill. The demotion every projection has him taking is an even-strength demotion, and both published power-play projections keep him on the first unit. The number that threatens the 55 is a 19.4 percent shooting rate against a career mark of 11.4 across 869 games.