The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed goaltender Taylor Gauthier to a one-year contract, it was announced today by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas.<\/p>\n
Gauthier, 25, is signed through the 2025-26 season, and his contract carries an average annual value of $775,000 at the NHL level. Gauthier has been loaned back to the Wheeling Nailers (ECHL).<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-2, 209-pound goaltender has appeared in 22 games this season with the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL posting an 11-6-5 record with a 2.07 goals-against average, .924 save percentage and one shutout. On Thursday, Gauthier became Wheeling\u2019s all-time wins leader, surpassing Andy Franck\u2019s record of 60 career wins with the Nailers after making 30 saves and going 3-for-3 in their shootout win over the Rapid City Rush.<\/p>\n
In 110 career ECHL games, Gauthier has posted a 61-39-9 record with a .920 save percentage and 2.28 goals-against average with eight shutouts. He was named the ECHL Goaltender of the Year in 2023-24.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 25 career games with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins (AHL), he has gone 10-5-7 with a 2.77 goals-against average, .908 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Calgary, Alberta native won a gold medal at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup in 2019 and a silver medal at the World Junior Championship in 2021 with Team Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed goaltender Taylor Gauthier to a one-year contract, it was announced today by President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-508452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}