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Photo of NHL player Cayden Primeau

Carolina Hurricanes Logo Cayden Primeau

Position Goaltender Current Team Carolina Hurricanes
Catches Left Current Contract 1 year ($775.0K CapHit)
Height 6'3" Expires 2025-26
Weight (lbs) 205 Expiry Age (Jun 30) 26
Age (DOB) 26 (Aug 11, 1999) Expiry Status RFA-arb
Drafted 2017, Round 7, Overall 199 (MTL)
Date Team Transaction
Nov 8, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Assigned to AHL
Nov 8, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Claimed on Waivers from Toronto Maple Leafs
Nov 8, 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs Lost on Waivers to Carolina Hurricanes
Nov 7, 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs Placed on Waivers
Oct 6, 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs Claimed on Waivers from Carolina Hurricanes
Oct 6, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Lost on Waivers to Toronto Maple Leafs
Oct 5, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Placed on Waivers
Jul 1, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Signed 1 year @ $775K AAV starting in 2025-26
Jul 1, 2025 Carolina Hurricanes Acquired from Montreal Canadiens
Jul 1, 2025 Montreal Canadiens Traded to Carolina Hurricanes
May 3, 2025 Montreal Canadiens Assigned to AHL
Apr 27, 2025 Montreal Canadiens Recalled from AHL
Dec 29, 2024 Montreal Canadiens Assigned to AHL
Dec 29, 2024 Montreal Canadiens Cleared Waivers
Dec 28, 2024 Montreal Canadiens Placed on Waivers
Sep 8, 2022 Montreal Canadiens Signed 3 years @ $890K AAV starting in 2022-23
Mar 31, 2019 Montreal Canadiens Signed to an entry level contract.
Status History Coming Soon

About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary
  • Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
  • Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
  • 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
  • Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
  • Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
  • Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
  • Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
  • Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
  • Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
  • Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
  • 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
  • Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
  • Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
  • Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
  • 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Data Sources
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5v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2019-20 MTL 2 92:04 47.57 35.84 2.02 1.96 0.07 94.55 94.36 0.19
2020-21 MTL 4 169:03 36.56 25.91 2.31 3.55 -1.23 86.30 91.07 -4.76
2021-22 MTL 12 410:40 45.44 33.90 2.82 4.24 -1.41 87.50 91.67 -4.17
2022-23 MTL 3 114:00 33.16 22.63 2.54 3.68 -1.15 83.72 88.79 -5.07
2023-24 MTL 23 1029:21 45.99 31.48 2.68 2.33 0.35 92.59 91.48 1.11
2024-25 MTL 11 395:25 44.00 28.07 3.00 5.01 -2.01 82.16 89.32 -7.15
2025-26 TOR 3 150:06 36.38 25.98 1.88 4.80 -2.92 81.54 92.76 -11.22

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2019-20 MTL 2 14:22 79.35 58.47 5.64 4.18 1.46 92.86 90.36 2.50
2020-21 MTL 4 10:42 89.72 67.29 10.22 11.21 -0.99 83.33 84.81 -1.48
2021-22 MTL 12 37:52 76.06 47.54 5.48 11.09 -5.61 76.67 88.46 -11.80
2022-23 MTL 3 11:34 72.62 51.87 6.04 5.19 0.86 90.00 88.35 1.65
2023-24 MTL 23 103:30 85.80 64.93 9.02 11.59 -2.57 82.14 86.11 -3.96
2024-25 MTL 11 50:53 75.47 45.99 7.58 4.72 2.86 89.74 83.52 6.23
2025-26 TOR 3 13:04 78.06 55.10 6.77 4.59 2.18 91.67 87.71 3.96

Legend

Percentile 0-25 Percentile 25-50 Percentile 50-75 Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic Definition
SAA/60Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%Save Percentage.
xSv%Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AESave Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).
Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

News and Opinions

Current Contract

Cayden Primeau signed a $775,000 1-year contract with the Carolina Hurricanes and General Manager Eric Tulsky on July 1, 2025 with an AAV of $775,000. This contract will start in 2025-26 and end after the 2025-26 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 0.81% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2025-26 26 $775,000 $775,000 - - $775,000 $775,000 $775,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $775,000 $775,000 $775,000
Signed: July 1, 2025
Team: Carolina Hurricanes
GM: Eric Tulsky
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 0.81

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Cayden Primeau signed a $2,670,000 3-year contract with the Montreal Canadiens and General Manager Kent Hughes on September 8, 2022 with an AAV of $890,000. This contract will start in 2022-23 and end after the 2024-25 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.08% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2022-23 23 $890,000 $890,000 - - $770,000 $770,000 $770,000 RFA
2023-24 24 $890,000 $890,000 - - $800,000 $800,000 $800,000 RFA
2024-25 25 $890,000 $890,000 - - $1,100,000 $1,100,000 $1,100,000 RFA-arb
Total - - $2,670,000 $2,670,000 $2,670,000
Signed: Sep 8, 2022
Team: Montreal Canadiens
GM: Kent Hughes
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 1.08

Cayden Primeau signed a $2,642,500 3-year contract with the Montreal Canadiens and General Manager Marc Bergevin on March 31, 2019 with an AAV of $880,833. This contract will start in 2019-20 and end after the 2021-22 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.08% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2019-20 20 $880,833 $966,667 $257,500 $92,500 $700,000 $792,500 $70,000 ELC
2020-21 21 $880,833 $966,667 - $92,500 $832,500 $925,000 $70,000 ELC
2021-22 22 $880,833 $966,667 - $92,500 $832,500 $925,000 $70,000 ELC
Total $257,500 $277,500 $2,365,000 $2,642,500 $210,000
Signed: Mar 31, 2019
Team: Montreal Canadiens
GM: Marc Bergevin
Exp. Status: RFA

Career Statistics

Regular Season Playoffs
Season League Team GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv% GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv%
2013-14 T1EHL U16 Virtua Hockey 16U 17 1.69 0.940
2014-15 18U AAA Philadelphia Revolution 18U AA 31 2.02 0.932
2014-15 USHS-NJ Bishop Eustace Prep 11 0.915
2014-15 USA-S15 Team Red 5 1.58 0.923
2015-16 EHL Philadelphia Revolution 21 1.86 0.951 4 3.62 0.910
2016-17 USHL Lincoln Stars 30 14 11 2 813 85 3.16 0.895
2016-17 USDP U.S. National U18 Team 1 0.00 1.000
2017-18 NCAA Northeastern Univ. 34 19 8 932 64 1.92 0.931
2018-19 NCAA Northeastern Univ. 36 25 10 1 1100 74 2.09 0.933
2018-19 WJC-20 USA U20 5 4 1 126 8 1.61 0.936
2019-20 NHL Montréal Canadiens 2 2 1 1 72 5 2.52 0.931
2019-20 AHL Laval Rocket 33 17 11 4 834 77 2.45 0.908
2020-21 NHL Montréal Canadiens 4 4 1 2 1 93 14 4.16 0.849
2020-21 AHL Laval Rocket 16 11 4 350 32 2.10 0.909
2021-22 NHL Montréal Canadiens 12 12 1 7 1 302 40 4.62 0.868
2021-22 AHL Laval Rocket 33 16 12 2 1038 94 2.94 0.909 14 9 5 5 513 33 2.17 0.936
2022-23 NHL Montréal Canadiens 3 3 2 54 8 3.46 0.852
2022-23 AHL Laval Rocket 41 19 15 5 1345 122 3.04 0.909 2 2 6 57 5 2.52 0.912
2023-24 NHL Montréal Canadiens 23 23 8 9 4 731 66 2.99 0.910
2024-25 NHL Montréal Canadiens 11 11 2 3 1 250 41 4.70 0.836
2024-25 AHL Laval Rocket 26 21 2 3 686 50 1.96 0.927 8 3 4 3 172 21 3.27 0.878
2025-26 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs 3 3 2 1 80 13 4.30 0.838
2025-26 AHL Chicago Wolves 39 21 11 7 1127 95 2.41 0.916 7 5 2 7 209 16 2.17 0.923
NHL Career 58 58 15 25 7 1582 187 3.73 0.882