Kiefer Sherwood
San Jose Sharks · 2026-27
6'0" · 195 lb · Age 31
+2.9
goals above replacement per 82 games
+0.6 over his 17 games. Percentile among 159 league forwards with 200 or more five-on-five minutes. Method v0.1
Goals above replacement over his 17 games, by part.
Difficulty of his minutes (the quality of his opponents and linemates) is not measured: no free public source carries it.
The number over each bar is his percentile among 159 league forwards. No rank yet: under 30 minutes on the unit.
The number over each bar is his percentile among 159 league forwards. No rank yet: under 30 minutes on the unit. Chances against are inverted, so a tall bar always reads well.
The league's puck and player tracking, through 17 games. Percentiles are the league's own.
2026-27: +4.0 (range -10.5 to +18.5). 2031-32: -3.0 (range -36.4 to +30.5). No dollar line yet: market value waits on a league contract table.
2026-27 regular season: 17 games, 268 minutes. Sources: NHL.com for the roster, the counting line and NHL Edge tracking; MoneyPuck for expected goals, on-ice chances, zone starts, blocks and penalties; PuckPedia and CapWages for the contract. Updated 2026-11-06. The rating and the forecast are this site's own, from public data, with the method published. All cards →
On the record
Called Shots →Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.
Tyler Toffoli scores fewer than 15 even-strength goals for San Jose in the 2026-27 regular season.
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.
Will Smith finishes the 2026-27 NHL regular season with an on-ice goal share at five-on-five below 52 percent for San Jose.
Written about him
San Jose has held its own for three games. One line has not.
San Jose's improved five-on-five play has left the Stenberg-Misa-Sherwood combination behind as the road trip reaches its first back-to-back.
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.
San Jose's last exhibition reused five units, but not the pair beside Orlov
San Jose repeated five units before the Florida opener, while Orlov's partner and the fourth forward line changed.
Kiefer Sherwood Drove Play Better Than Any Shark And Finished Minus Eight
Kiefer Sherwood played 28 games for San Jose after the January trade and posted a plus 7.8 relative shot-attempt share, the best of the 26 Sharks skaters who dressed at least twenty games, alongside a 95.0 PDO, the worst of the same 26. Hockey Reference's expected plus/minus put him at minus 0.3. The scoreboard put him at minus 8. He turned 31 in March, he is in year one of five at $5,750,000 with a full no-trade clause this season, and the deployment question is whether the special teams find him after San Jose used him 1:08 a night on the power play and 34 seconds a night on the kill.