The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed goaltender Taylor Gauthier to a one-year contract extension, it was announced today by President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Kyle Dubas.<\/p>\n
The two-way contract runs through the 2026-27 season and his contract carries an average annual value of $850,000 at the NHL level.<\/p>\n
Gauthier, 25, completed his fourth season in the Penguins organization in 2025-26. He spent the year with the Wheeling Nailers of the ECHL, posting a 21-9-5 record in 36 games with a 2.09 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage with three shutouts. Gauthier ranked second in the ECHL in save percentage (.929) and third in goals-against average (2.09). This season, Gauthier became Wheeling\u2019s all-time wins leader and shutouts leader.<\/p>\n
In the 2026 Kelly Cup playoffs, the 6-foot-2, 209-pound goaltender went 9-8 with a 2.23 goals-against average and .922 save percentage with three shutouts, helping the Nailers reach the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n
In four seasons in the ECHL from 2022-26, Gauthier has played in 124 career regular-season games with a 71-42-9 record, a 2.26 goals-against average and .923 save percentage with 10 shutouts. In the 2023-24 season, Gauthier was named the ECHL Goaltender of the Year and to the ECHL First All-Star Team while posting a league best .923 save percentage in the regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton Penguins, Gauthier has a 10-5-7 record in 25 career games with a 2.77 goals-against average and a .908 save percentage with two shutouts.<\/p>\n
The Calgary, Alberta native has 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
Gauthier was originally signed by Pittsburgh on March 1, 2022 as an undrafted free agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed goaltender Taylor Gauthier to a one-year contract extension, it was announced today by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-708605","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\/708605","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=708605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}