
-0.6
Pine Net Rating v0.1: goals above replacement over 8 games. 95 of 200 five-on-five minutes; his rank prints at 200.
2026-27 regular season: 8 games, 111 minutes.
2027-28: +11.2 (range -7.5 to +29.9). 2031-32: +12.4 (range -20.6 to +45.3). 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.
Quentin Musty plays at least one NHL regular-season game in 2026-27, after playing zero 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.
Collin Graf is not among San Jose's top eight forwards in total power-play time on ice across the club's first 20 regular-season games of 2026-27.
Igor Chernyshov averages more than 2.00 shots on goal per game across San Jose's first 20 regular-season games of 2026-27.
Ivar Stenberg appears in 11 or more of San Jose's first 13 regular-season games in 2026-27.

Chernyshov's offensive-zone start share is unchanged and his power-play time has increased, while San Jose's share of the chances with him has fallen.

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.

Igor Chernyshov took 81 shot attempts in 28 NHL games last season. Forty six reached the goalie, twenty five missed the net and ten were blocked. Among the 426 forwards who played at least 400 minutes, he ranked 19th in expected goals per unblocked attempt and 189th in shots on goal per sixty, which is a player taking excellent shots and taking very few of them. Six of his twenty eight games ended with no shot on goal at all.

Igor Chernyshov and the only real argument in the forward group