Dennis Gilbert
Buffalo Sabres · LD · 29
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- Not on file (no sourced cap hit)
- Worth
- 1.2% of the cap
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight BUF do not play · next league date 2026-10-23 · latest move: The Buffalo Sabres recalled D Dennis Gilbert from the minors. (2026-10-13)
Production and deployment
How the points were built
Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split stays “—”; it is never converted to zero.
Organizational context
LD regulars in BUF
The all-team median is . BUF’s farm system sits #9 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Dennis Gilbert is talked about more than most (87th percentile); attention this week is 5.11× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: .
Contract
No contract for this player has been sourced yet. CapOrCup does not estimate it.
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Dennis Gilbert ranks, and how sure we are
Each rank is the 10th to 90th percentile of his place when every skater's value is redrawn 1,000 times from his own band. One season rarely separates a player from the dozens around him.
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
From the video · model judgement
What the condensed games showed
Read from the league's free condensed games ( game so far): entries, exits, battles and turnovers the model could see and attribute to his jersey number. A condensed game is a sample of the game, so these are observations, not season counts.
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Career arc ·
Dennis Gilbert, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Position band: .
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
At the draft the model expected through his age-25 season (80% band ). He logged , between the median and the 90th percentile.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
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| 2019-20 | ||||
| 2020-21 | ||||
| 2022-23 | ||||
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Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-10-18
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-10-13 · recalled from the minors · The Buffalo Sabres recalled D Dennis Gilbert from the minors.
2026-10-13 · recalled from the minors · The Buffalo Sabres recalled D Dennis Gilbert from the minors.
2026-10-02 · sent to the minors · The Buffalo Sabres assigned D Dennis Gilbert to the minors.
2026-10-01 · recalled from the minors · The Buffalo Sabres recalled D Dennis Gilbert from the minors.
2026-09-25 · sent to the minors · The Buffalo Sabres assigned D Dennis Gilbert to the minors.
Availability
Games missed
The NHL publishes no injury feed. This counts games his club played while he did not dress, for any reason: injury, illness, a healthy scratch, a suspension or a trade gap. No cause is claimed.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far:
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Christian WolaninD · matched at ages | ||
| Trevor van RiemsdykD · matched at ages | ||
| Brayden McNabbD · matched at ages | ||
| Vladimir DraveckyD · matched at ages | ||
| Dylan DeMeloD · matched at ages | ||
| Erik GudbransonD · matched at ages | ||
| Connor CliftonD · matched at ages | ||
| Jake McCabeD · matched at ages |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
Fit components (description)
Dennis Gilbert: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Dennis Gilbert's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Rules that travel with him: blocked. Club-specific rules (50 contracts, 23-man roster, the two front offices) are on each team's Moves tab.
- Trade protection: Not on file. clause not confirmed. CBA Art. 11.8(a)
- Waiver exemption: blocked. signed at 21: past 3 seasons or 80 NHL games (now season 9, 119 games). CBA Art. 13.4
as of 2026-04-16