Returning regular · 2025-26
Jacob Gaucher
Philadelphia Flyers · C · — shot · age 25 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- PHI
- Lane
- C
- Age
- 25
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
6 C regulars in PHI
The all-team median is 7. PHI’s farm system ranks #17 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?
Tonight
PHI do not play today
League schedule for 2026-09-29; next league date 2026-09-30.
Latest move: The Philadelphia Flyers assigned F Jacob Gaucher to the minors. (2026-09-25).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Jacob Gaucher is talked about more than most (81th percentile); attention this week is 9.6× 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: 13 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 59 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · PHI
Cap hit not published
2026–27 through 2026–27. Certified
From the video · model judgement
What the condensed games showed
Read from the league's free condensed games (1 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.
Career arc
No career arc on file
This player has no NHL season on file from 2000-01 on and no draft projection, so there is no arc to draw.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 22 to 25
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: age 14 QBAAA 0.29 → age 15 QM15AAA 0.63 → age 16 QMAAA 0.35 → age 17 QMJHL 0.00 → age 18 QMJHL 0.35 → age 19 QMJHL 0.61 → age 20 QMJHL 0.31 → age 21 QMJHL 1.03 → age 22 ECHL 0.86 → age 23 AHL 0.27 → age 24 AHL 0.54 → age 25 AHL 0.52
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| John LeonardL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.03 | age 26 AHL 0.39 → age 27 NHL 0.36 |
| Matt LuffR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.03 | age 26 AHL 0.32 → age 27 AHL 0.41 → age 28 AHL 0.42 |
| Logan O'ConnorR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.03 | age 26 NHL 0.32 → age 27 NHL 0.44 → age 28 NHL 0.26 → age 29 NHL 0.15 |
| Sam CarrickC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.03 | age 26 AHL 0.28 → age 27 AHL 0.46 → age 28 AHL 0.42 → age 29 NHL 0.46 → age 30 NHL 0.30 |
| Justin BrazeauR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.04 | age 26 NHL 0.37 → age 27 NHL 0.35 → age 28 NHL 0.53 |
| Nathan WalkerL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.05 | age 26 AHL 0.32 → age 28 NHL 0.40 → age 29 NHL 0.18 → age 30 NHL 0.29 → age 31 NHL 0.22 |
| Pavel KarnaukhovL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.05 | age 26 KHL 0.37 → age 27 KHL 0.32 → age 28 KHL 0.23 → age 29 KHL 0.30 |
| Spencer SmallmanR · matched at ages 22, 23, 25 | 0.05 | age 26 AHL 0.19 → age 27 AHL 0.18 → age 28 AHL 0.25 → age 29 AHL 0.21 |
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.
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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Roster moves · as of 2026-09-28
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.
2026-09-25 · sent to the minors · The Philadelphia Flyers assigned F Jacob Gaucher to the minors.
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.