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Kiefer Sherwood
San Jose Sharks Left Wing #44
Undrafted, twenty-three goals, and thirty-four per cent of his shots from beyond forty feet.
| Season | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 72 | 23 | 13 | 36 | -20 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 172 | 13.4 | 17:16 |
| Career | 337 | 66 | 68 | 134 | +5 | 170 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 584 | 11.3 | 13:40 |
Last Season
Twenty-three goals and 13 assists in 72 games — 36 points, minus-20, at 17:16 a night with seven power-play goals and 50 penalty minutes. His five-on-five work was done in Vancouver.
The Finesse Game
A volume shooter from a long way out. Two hundred and seventy-six unblocked attempts, 22 goals, median 31 feet with 34 per cent from beyond forty and only 32 per cent from inside twenty.
Twenty-three goals off that chart is a good return and not an obviously repeatable one.
Thirteen assists in 72 games is the flat truth about the playmaking. A hundred and thirty-four points in 337 career games, and he was 28 before he had a full NHL season.
The Physical Game
Six foot even, 194, and the hitting is the identity — he finishes everything, and fifty penalty minutes in a seventeen-minute role is the receipt.
He forechecks relentlessly and finishes every check, and the speed is what makes it work.
The Intangibles
Fifty point five per cent of the expected goals, 58th percentile, and 54.3 per cent of the shot attempts, 88th percentile, across 976 minutes in Vancouver.
That is a genuinely good possession season and the minus-20 sits on top of a Vancouver club whose goaltending came in sixteen goals worse than its chances.
Six points in his last ten. He is 31, undrafted out of Miami of Ohio, and precisely the sort of forward a club built around two very light twenty-year-olds needs on the ice in front of them.