{"id":469585,"date":"2025-07-01T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=469585"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:30:15","slug":"depth-journeyman-centre-signs-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/07\/01\/depth-journeyman-centre-signs-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Depth Journeyman Centre Signs New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gaudette has signed a two-year deal with the San Jose Sharks for $4 million ($2 million AAV). The 28-year-old with an interesting career has signed a shiny new contract after a big 2024-25 season. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaudead01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-01_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Gaudette<\/a> signs a new contract today that is a reward for his big goal total from <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2024-25<\/a> as an <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/07\/ottawa-senators-rumours-what-claude-giroux-contract-look-like\/\" target=\"_self\">Ottawa Senator<\/a>. So, let&#8217;s analyze what the signing means and what to expect from the depth centre.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Gaudette, two year deal in San Jose, $2M AAV<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1940149218334974263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Adam Gaudette Signs a New Contract<\/h3>\n<p>Originally, Gaudette is a fifth-round selection who&#8217;s played over 300 regular season NHL games to this point. He was a scorer back in college, as his junior and final season at Northeastern saw him post 60 points in 38 contests. However, he&#8217;s yet to be able to stick in the NHL. This is a guy who in 2019-20, put up 12 goals and a still career-high 33 points in just 59 games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/canucks\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. Otherwise, he&#8217;s bounced around between the AHL and NHL. That kind of changed in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Wnkg7mzNsF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/14\/darkhorse-senator-forward-trying-stick-in-top-six\/\" target=\"_self\">Darkhorse Senator Forward Trying to Stick in Top Six<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Darkhorse Senator Forward Trying to Stick in Top Six&#8221; &#8212; Last Word On Hockey\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/12\/14\/darkhorse-senator-forward-trying-stick-in-top-six\/embed\/#?secret=uUSWU04jkL#?secret=Wnkg7mzNsF\" data-secret=\"Wnkg7mzNsF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Focused on perfecting his craft and really defining his game, he went to work with the AHL&#8217;s Springfield Thunderbirds. Here, he scored an amazing total of 44 goals, that was good enough for the goal-scoring crown that year. It was a great job of proving what kind of player he could be as a professional. He followed it up with a career-high 19 goals and 81 games played for Ottawa this past season.<\/p>\n<h3>What Will He Bring<\/h3>\n<p>As Adam Gaudette signs, there are a few things to keep in mind. Remarkably, that was good enough for a 1.4 goals-per-60-minutes. Furthermore, this is why he earned this contract, that would have seemingly priced him out of Ottawa. As a comparable, specific to his goal-scoring proficiency, Brandon Hagel had 35 goals in 2024-25 and only scored 1.2 G\/60.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, one difficulty with Gaudette, is that when he got bumped up the lineup, even if he played well, the scoring rate wasn&#8217;t there. Plus he doesn&#8217;t kill penalties, and was limited to just 10:25 of average ice time.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Gaudette has signed a two-year deal with the San Jose Sharks for $4 million ($2 million AAV). The 28-year-old with an interesting career has signed a shiny new contract after a big 2024-25 season. Adam Gaudette signs a new contract today that is a reward for his big goal total from 2024-25 as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":469593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4547,4548,25],"tags":[3157],"class_list":["post-469585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-sharks","tag-adam-gaudette"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469585"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471907,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469585\/revisions\/471907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}