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Gauthier posted a 21-9-5 record with a 2.09 GAA and a .929 SV% in the ECHL this past season.
On Tuesday, the team announced that they have re-signed goaltender Taylor Gauthier to a one-year, two-way contract extension. The deal will carry an annual average value of $850,000 at the NHL level.
Gauthier, 25, spent the entirety of this past season with the Penguins’ ECHL affilate Wheeling Nailers, where he posted a 21-9-5 record with a 2.09 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage in 36 appearances. He then went 9-8 with a 2.23 GAA and a .922 SV% in 17 postseason games as the Nailers reached the Eastern Conference Final of the Kelly Cup playoffs.
The Calgary native went undrafted following his junior career in the Western Hockey League , in which he spent four-plus years with the Prince George Cougars before making his the last 28 appearances in his final season of 2021-22 with the Portland Winterhawks, where he put up a sterling 24-4-0 record with a 2.16 GAA and a .931 SV%. Gauthier began his professional career by signing as an undrafted free agent with Pittsburgh on March 1st, 2022.
He split his 2022-23 season between the Nailers and the Penguins’ American Hockey League affiliate Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins. In 16 appearances with Wheeling that year, he had an 8-7-1 record with a 3.09 GAA and a .896 SV%. In 20 appearances with Wilkes-Barre Scranton, however, he showed well with an 8-3-6 record along with a 2.71 GAA and a .907 SV%.
In the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, he played almost entirely in the ECHL with the Nailers, making just five total appearances in the AHL for the Penguins. In those five appearances, he had a 2-2-1 record with a .917 SV%. In 42 appearances for Wheeling in the 2023-24 season, he had a 24-16-2 record with a 2.23 GAA and a .923 SV%.
In 30 appearances for Wheeling in the 2024-25 season, he put up a 18-10-2 record with a 2.06 GAA and a .928 SV%.
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