The Contract San Jose Gave Alex Barré-Boulet Names Two Salaries And One City

The contract Alex Barré-Boulet signed on the first of July has two salaries in it.

If he plays for the San Jose Sharks this season, it pays him $850,000. If he plays for the San Jose Barracuda, it pays him $550,000. PuckPedia and CapWages carry the same terms: two years, $1,750,000, a cap hit of $875,000, $600,000 guaranteed whichever building he is in. The Sharks announced the signing on July 1 and did not publish the figures. Mike Grier signed it. Paul Corbeil negotiated it, as he has negotiated every contract Barré-Boulet has ever had.

The Sharks play at SAP Center, 525 West Santa Clara Street. The Barracuda play at Tech CU Arena, 1500 South Tenth Street. Both buildings are in San Jose.

Last season#

He spent it with the Colorado Eagles and finished second in the American Hockey League in scoring, 70 points in 70 games, 26 goals and 44 assists. On April 16 the league named him to its First All-Star Team, one of the three forwards on it. He added 12 points in 17 Calder Cup playoff games.

It was his eighth professional season and his third organization in three years.

428 and 435#

Here is one half of the record.

He has played 428 regular-season games in the American Hockey League and scored 435 points in them, 161 goals and 274 assists. San Jose's own signing release prints those four numbers. Add up hockeydb's career table season by season and you get the same four. Nothing had to be rounded to make them agree.

Syracuse, 2018-19, his first year: 74 games, 34 goals, 68 points. The 34 goals led every skater in the league, not only every rookie, and he won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award as the AHL's rookie of the year. Then 56 points the next season. Then 12 in the ten games he got the season after that, and 63, and 84, and 19, and 63 with Laval, and 70 with the Eagles. Six of the eight seasons were spent in Syracuse, 294 games of the 428.

Three times the league has named him an all-star: in 2019-20, in 2022-23 and last April. In the Calder Cup playoffs he has 45 points in 52 games.

72 and 19#

Here is the other half.

He has played 72 regular-season games in the National Hockey League, for Tampa Bay, Seattle, Montreal and Colorado, and scored 19 points in them, 12 goals and seven assists. The longest run was 36 games for Tampa Bay between October 15, 2023, and February 19, 2024, which produced nine points. The shortest was a single game in 2022-23, the season he scored 84 points in Syracuse, which is the best year he has had.

The American Hockey League is not a test he keeps failing. He has passed everything it can measure, at 21 and at 25 and at 28, and passing it has not moved him.

Last season he played twice in the NHL. Both were home games.

The first was on Monday, January 19, against Washington. PuckPedia's transaction log has him summoned from the Eagles that Monday and reassigned to the Eagles that Monday. He was on the ice for three minutes and forty-six seconds. He took no shots and he recorded an assist, the only point he scored in the NHL all year.

The second was on Thursday, April 16, against Seattle. Colorado recalled him that day. April 16 is also the day the American Hockey League announced its All-Star Teams and put his name on the first one. He played thirteen minutes and two seconds and did not get a shot on goal.

Montmagny#

He was born on May 21, 1997, in Montmagny, Quebec, a town of about eleven thousand people on the south shore of the St. Lawrence, eighty kilometres east of Quebec City. He is five foot ten and shoots left.

In junior he played for Drummondville and then for the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, and in 2017-18 he scored 53 goals and 63 assists in 65 games. The 116 points led the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He won the Jean Béliveau Trophy for the scoring title and the Michel Brière Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player, and the Armada reached the President's Cup final.

Nobody drafted him.

Tampa Bay signed him as a free agent on Thursday, March 1, 2018, eighty-one days before his twenty-first birthday. Steve Yzerman signed it. It was an entry-level contract, three years, a cap hit of $759,258, and the salary it paid him to play in the American Hockey League was $70,000 a year. That is the lowest minor league figure in any of the five contracts he has signed, and it covered the season he led every skater in that league in goals.

What he has said#

In February the Eagles' own website ran a story about him by Christian Moreno, published on the twenty-third. It is the sort of piece a minor league club writes about a player having a good year, and he is quoted in it four times.

"It's been fun, especially the past month and a half, I'd say, the chemistry with (Tye) Felhaber and (Jayson) Megna has been really good," he said. "So, it's been great living here. It's been great for my family, and it's a lot different than living out East, that's for sure."

Asked about his own production, he answered with the people he has played with.

"I've been blessed to have played on some really good teams over the years, played with some great players, even in my first year, where I played with Carter Verhaeghe," he said. "I've also been around a lot of experienced guys, so been blessed with teammates so far."

Blessed twice, in one answer, about a career that reads from outside like a trap. He does not use that word or anything near it. On the power play, which he has run at every stop, he said only this: "Obviously power play has always been my thing, so it's good to contribute as much as I have so far."

Mark Letestu coached him last season and had coached against him for four years before that, and in the same story he described what Barré-Boulet does rather than what he has not done. "His details are so professional, with the way he moves around the ice, the way he gets to space, the way he forechecks," Letestu said. "He's got a very professional approach, and that rubs off on his teammates really well."

Grier put it in the club's language on July 1, in the release announcing the contract. "Alex's offensive track record speaks for itself and his presence provides additional responsible veteran depth at the NHL level."

Depth is the word for a player a club expects to need and does not expect to use.

Called Shots#

Alex Barré-Boulet finishes the 2026-27 AHL regular season with more points than any other San Jose Barracuda skater. Price: -135.

He has led his AHL club in points in each of the last two seasons, for two different organizations, and last season he did it while finishing second in the whole league. The rate has not moved in eight years: 435 points in 428 games, and 70 in 70 at 28 years old. Against it, and this is the reason the price is not longer, San Jose stocks that roster with prospects it is paid to develop, and prospects get the power play he has run everywhere he has been. The likeliest way the call loses is the one outcome everything above says is unlikely, which is San Jose keeping him upstairs long enough that he never plays enough games downstairs to lead anyone in anything. Falsified by any other Barracuda skater finishing the regular season with more points, or by a tie at the top. Resolves April 30, 2027, off the club's own regular-season scoring page.

The number that does not move#

The base salary in the contract goes up in the second year. It is $850,000 in 2026-27 and $900,000 in 2027-28.

The other salary is $550,000 in 2026-27, and $550,000 in 2027-28.

Contract terms, including both salaries in each year, the guarantee, the agent and every previous contract: PuckPedia's player page and CapWages' player page, read September 9, which agree on all of it. The signing itself, the 428 AHL games, the 435 points, the awards, the junior record and the March 1, 2018 free-agent signing: the club's own release, datelined San Jose, July 1, 2026, and carried by sjbarracuda.com. Career totals by season, and the QMJHL years: hockeydb, whose season-by-season AHL rows sum to the club's four figures exactly. The 2025-26 stat lines and the two NHL game logs, with dates, ice time and shots: the NHL's own player and game-log records. The AHL All-Star Teams of April 16, 2026, the Red Garrett Award and the 34 goals that led all skaters in 2018-19: the Eagles' release of April 16, 2026. Jakob Pelletier of Syracuse won the scoring title with 77 points. Barré-Boulet's quotations and Mark Letestu's: Christian Moreno, coloradoeagles.com, published February 23, 2026; the date each was spoken is not given there. Grier's quotation: the July 1 release. Montmagny's population and location: the 2021 Canadian census figure of 10,999, via Wikipedia. Both arena addresses are from the clubs' own directions pages.