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Adam Gaudette

Adam Gaudette
Pine card · 2025-26

+0.3

Pine Net Rating v0.1: goals above replacement per 82 games (+0.2 over his 66). 39% among 469 forwards, 3rd line.

Position
R
Number
#81
Shoots
R
Age
29
Size
6'1", 190 lb
Ice time
11:28 a game
Games
66
Status
Under contract
Pieces here
17

2025-26 regular season: 66 games, 757 minutes.

Net rating, split
Offense plus defense, in goals per 82 games, against a replacement-level player at his position. Built from public components; the method names every constant. Team sums track goal differential at r = 0.632 across 32 clubs.
Netall situations
+0.339%
Offenseall situations
+0.333%
Defenseall situations
+0.059%
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.
-40-30-20-10+0+10+20+30-10+3-8-12+6+0-0-2-3-4-52018-192020-212024-252026-272028-292030-31-40-30-20-10+0+10+20+30-10+3-8-12+6+0-0-2-3-4-52018-192021-222026-272029-30

2026-27: -0.5 (range -15.3 to +14.3). 2030-31: -5.3 (range -36.7 to +26.1).

Value v0.1
Market value
$2.75M
Cap hit
$2M
Surplus
+$750K
Positive value
57%

Market value is what the league pays a forward at his rating percentile this season, from 386 contracts; in 2026-27 dollars against a $104M ceiling. Positive value is the share of 2,000 simulated futures over his 1 remaining year in which that value meets his cap hit.

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.

Individual offense
percentile among 469 forwards
Goalsall situations
1765%
Assistsall situations
825%
Pointsall situations
2543%
Expected goalsall situations
12.244%
Individual defense
percentile among 469 forwards
Blocked shotsall situations
3357%
Penalties drawn minus takenall situations
-417%
On the ice, offense
percentile among 313 to 469 forwards
Chances for, per 605-on-5
2.1419%
Chance share, on ice minus off5-on-5
+0.153%
Power play chances for, per 60power play, 62 min
4.295%
On the ice, defense
percentile among 469 forwards
Chances against, per 605-on-5
2.4356%
Penalty kill chances against, per 60penalty kill, 1 min
rank withheld: under 30 minutes on the unit
4.39n/a
Difficulty not measured. Quality of competition and teammates has no free public source this pipe can reach (Natural Stat Trick blocks scripts); Court chose no paid source on 2026-09-12.
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 2026-09-13. 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.

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