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Kiefer Sherwood

Kiefer Sherwood
Pine card · 2025-26

+8.1

Pine Net Rating v0.1: goals above replacement per 82 games (+7.1 over his 72). 68% among 469 forwards, 2nd line.

Position
L
Number
#44
Shoots
R
Age
31
Size
6'0", 194 lb
Games
72
Status
Under contract
Pieces here
30

2025-26 regular season: 72 games, 1243 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
+8.168%
Offenseall situations
+12.780%
Defenseall situations
-4.624%
Projected net rating
Per 82 games. Solid: rated seasons on file (5). 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 +5.2 from 3 recent seasons, shrunk 15% of the way toward the league forward mean.
-40-30-20-10+0+10+20+30-2+0+2+2+8+4+3+2+0-12018-192022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-292029-302030-31-40-30-20-10+0+10+20+30-2+0+2+2+8+4+3+2+0-12018-192023-242025-262027-282029-302030-31

2026-27: +4.0 (range -10.5 to +18.5). 2030-31: -1.0 (range -31.7 to +29.8).

Value v0.1
Market value
$5.25M
Cap hit
$5.8M
Surplus
−$550K
Positive value
31%

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 5 remaining years 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
2380%
Assistsall situations
1340%
Pointsall situations
3661%
Expected goalsall situations
20.877%
Individual defense
percentile among 469 forwards
Blocked shotsall situations
3049%
Penalties drawn minus takenall situations
575%
On the ice, offense
percentile among 313 to 469 forwards
Chances for, per 605-on-5
2.4651%
Chance share, on ice minus off5-on-5
+0.658%
Power play chances for, per 60power play, 123 min
9.2591%
On the ice, defense
percentile among 226 to 469 forwards
Chances against, per 605-on-5
2.5836%
Penalty kill chances against, per 60penalty kill, 105 min
9.1312%
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 $5.8M cap hit · 5 years left · UFA July 2031. 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 →
OpenSep 1, 2026

Kiefer Sherwood averages under 1:45 a night on the power play across San Jose's first 20 games of 2026-27.

WithdrawnSep 6, 2026

Tyler Toffoli scores fewer than 15 even-strength goals for San Jose in the 2026-27 regular season.

OpenSep 8, 2026

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.

OpenSep 16, 2026

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.

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