Value of: F - Adam Gaudette, St. Louis Blues (UFA)

[Jersey Fan 12]

Career-high 71 points for Springfield in the AHL but played just two games for the Blues. Veteran of over 200 NHL games between 2017-18 and 2021-22.

Is he worth pursuing as a free agent for an NHL club or is he a career AHL/injury calllup player at this point?

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[Clint Eastwood]

Seems to fit the definition of "too good for the AHL, not good enough for the NHL"

 

[Mrfenn92]

2 years 2 way $775k aav

 

[NotASheep]

2 years 2 way $775k aav

pretty much this if he is lucky. He is 27. He might get a PTO

 

[Mrfenn92]

pretty much this if he is lucky. He is 27. He might get a PTO

Still a Ahl stud. He can make a nice career that way financially

 

[Bgav]

Career AHLer - prolly will get called up here and there over his career

 

[PettersonHughes]

13th/ 14th forward? If he works on his consistency I could see him carve out a Sam Gagner or Tomas Vanek type of late-career role as a PP specialist, racking up a bunch of points while up a man and being sheltered at EV. Good luck if he becomes anything significant.

 

[Bond]

Still a Ahl stud. He can make a nice career that way financially

Maybe he just goes to Europe. That’s what I’d do if I was an AHL tweener

 

[Blueston]

Career-high 71 points for Springfield in the AHL but played just two games for the Blues. Veteran of over 200 NHL games between 2017-18 and 2021-22.

Is he worth pursuing as a free agent for an NHL club or is he a career AHL/injury calllup player at this point?

Blues were lacking NHL forwards, especially ones that could play in top 9, and he got only briefest of looks despite his AHL numbers. Perhaps you could blame it on Blues and not him, but it's not like any other teams thought he was good NHLer when they had a look. He's worth a 2-way with a nice AHL salary, because chances are if he is anything more than an injury fill-in you're NHL roster isn't very good. Ours wasn't and we still had little use for him.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Maybe he just goes to Europe. That’s what I’d do if I was an AHL tweener

He could no doubt. If he gets 500k on a two way deal that’s a nice stay close to home salary

 

[MardyBum]

The hockey Gaud himself

 

[biturbo19]

Seems to fit the definition of "too good for the AHL, not good enough for the NHL"

Yep. Pretty much a classic NHL/AHL "tweener".

Doesn't play the sort of game to be effective outside an NHL Top-6 Scoring Role. Doesn't have enough skill to play that role in the NHL.

So he's sort of relegated to being an AHL scoring star. Which is fine...but it just makes him generally not even all that useful as a "call up" because you basically have to plug him into an NHL scoring role...which he's not good enough for, rather than just shuffling someone else up the depth chart and plugging a guy in to a Bottom-6 role.

 

[biturbo19]

The hockey Gaud himself

Nobody kicks their wife in the head better.

 

[Ace Card Bedard]

Value of: F - Adam Gaudette​

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Zero value

 

[NotASheep]

Still a Ahl stud. He can make a nice career that way financi

hIs last season was good in the AHL. One year does not make him an AHL stud

 

[Mrfenn92]

hIs last season was good in the AHL. One year does not make him an AHL stud

Ok