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Centre · #10

Sam Carrick

Toronto Maple Leafs Anaheim Ducks Edmonton Oilers New York Rangers Buffalo Sabres(traded during the season)
Age
34
Shoots
Right
Height
183 cm
Weight
95 kg
Born
Stouffville, CAN
Draft
2010, round 5, #144 (TOR)

Career · 11 seasons

Games
395
Goals
43
Points
89
TOI per game
11:16
xGF% (5v5)
42.1%
Goals above expected
−0.5

Season by season

The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.

2014–15TOR16112+16:29175.9%01.243.6%
2015–16TOR3000−211:2840.0%00.230.9%
After a break: 2018–19ANA6011−110:1350.0%00.330.7%
2019–20ANA9112−313:46166.3%01.349.2%
2020–21ANA13246+412:55238.7%11.840.3%
2021–22ANA6411819−1211:288013.8%09.045.6%
2022–23ANA52347−1710:34506.0%03.831.5%
2023–24ANA618311−1112:387710.4%17.437.7%
2023–24EDM16235010:411513.3%01.951.1%
2023–24All teams7710616−1112:139210.9%19.340.7%
2024–25NYR8061420+511:56847.1%09.045.0%
2025–26NYR604610−210:25567.1%05.646.8%
2025–26BUF13516+410:451926.3%01.945.2%
2025–26All teams739716+210:287512.0%07.546.4%
2026–27BUF2000−27:3210.0%00.125.1%
Total5 teams395434689−3611:164479.6%243.542.1%

Form

Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.

Form, ten-game rolling

Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.

Points per gameixG per gameTOI per game (minutes)
00.20.40.60.850100150200250300350
4m6m8m10m12m14m16m50100150200250300350Game

Player card

Model-based

How 11 seasons compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

Extra / AHL

14th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st line
  2. 2nd line
  3. 3rd line
  4. 4th line
  5. Extra / AHL

Scoring

4th line
  • Goals /600.5839th pct
  • Assists /600.6225th pct
  • ixG /600.5926th pct
  • Goals above expected−0.559th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)42.1%7th pct
  • CF% (5v5)45.4%18th pct
  • Relative xGF%−5.614th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.2417th pct

Usage

4th line
  • TOI per game11:1626th pct
  • PP time share5.3%31st pct
  • Offensive zone starts29.7%6th pct
  • Quality of competition23.5%32nd pct

Percentiles among forwards with 200+ minutes at 5-on-5 and 20+ games. Ratings rank each column's average percentile among the same players and read it as a role on a depth chart (how).

Most similar players this season

  1. Patrick BrownPHI/BOS0.96
  2. Sam LaffertyCHI/VAN/BUF0.95
  3. Matt Hendricks0.93
  4. John BeecherBOS0.91
  5. Jujhar KhairaEDM/CHI0.91
  6. Maxim LapierreSTL0.91

Faceoffs

How often Carrick wins the draw over 11 seasons, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 1959+ draws over the same seasons.

Win rate

52.2%

1607–1470 · #69 of 213 regulars, 68th percentile

Against an average centre

52.4%

Opponents won 50.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 49.9% against them.

Wins above average

+73

Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.

Draws per game

8.2

3,077 draws in all.

By dot, attacking to the right

54%585 · +0.448%173 · +0.651%427 · +1.156%71 · +1.062%93 · +1.251%103 · +1.153%94 · +0.452%377 · +0.551%1154 · +2.4Attacking zone →← Defending zone

Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.

By zone

  • Offensive zone50.2% 301–299
  • Neutral zone54.7% 517–429
  • Defensive zone51.5% 789–742

By strength

  • Even strength52.3% 1340–1224
  • Power play61.3% 46–29
  • Shorthanded50.5% 221–217

What a win leads to

Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +7 after a win, −23 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.3 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.

Most-faced opponents

Season by season

SeasonDrawsWin rateAgainst average
2014–159141.8%41.5%
2015–161100.0%102.5%
2018–193751.4%50.5%
2019–207245.8%43.6%
2020–216352.4%52.3%
2021–2241349.4%49.5%
2022–2336949.3%49.5%
2023–2478553.4%53.8%
2024–2569254.2%54.1%
2025–2654054.8%55.0%
2026–271450.0%55.3%

Finishing

Model-based

Did the goals match the chances?

Goals against expected goals

Cumulative goals (solid) and individual xG (dashed) through the season. The gap is finishing: above the dashed line, the player scored more than an average shooter would from the same chances.

−0.5 goals above expected

0102030405050100150200250300350Game

Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games

−500+50+100

Speed and tracking

From the NHL's EDGE tracking system (2021–22 on): skating speed, shot speed, distance and zone time, for the selected seasons and then every tracked season, to show improvement or decline.

Tracking data (NHL EDGE)

Values from the NHL's puck and player tracking, with the NHL's own league percentile for each. Missing values mean the player wasn't tracked enough.

Tracking

  • Top skating speed33.8 km/h40th pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph19th pct
  • Hardest shot133.8 km/h78th pct
  • Distance skated4 km7th pct
  • Offensive-zone time37.2%15th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other forwards that season with 20+ games. A season in progress appears once half its games are played, as provisional: season bests only grow. Bursts and distance are per 60 minutes of ice time, so seasons with fewer games still compare. Percentiles are on these rates, so they can differ from the NHL's, which are on season totals.

This playerMedian forwardMiddle half (25th–75th percentile)Hollow dot: too few games to rank, or a season in progress (*, dashed). Dotted line: no NHL games that season.

Top skating speed

35.5 km/h31st pct

▲ +0.8 km/h since 2024–25

343536373821–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 35.0 km/h, 18th percentile (64 games)2022–23: 34.9 km/h, 16th percentile (52 games)2023–24: 35.8 km/h, 44th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 34.7 km/h, 10th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 35.5 km/h, 31st percentile (73 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

2.919th pct

▲ +0.5 since 2024–25

024681021–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 3.2, 23rd percentile (64 games)2022–23: 1.5, 9th percentile (52 games)2023–24: 4.2, 40th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 2.5, 13th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 2.9, 19th percentile (73 games)

Distance skated per 60

16.2 km87th pct

▲ +0.0 km since 2024–25

14.51515.51616.521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 15.9 km, 70th percentile (64 games)2022–23: 15.3 km, 45th percentile (52 games)2023–24: 15.6 km, 56th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 16.2 km, 85th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 16.2 km, 87th percentile (73 games)

Hardest shot

137.0 km/h42nd pct

▼ −11.1 km/h since 2024–25

13013514014515015521–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 148.9 km/h, 73rd percentile (64 games)2022–23: 146.2 km/h, 64th percentile (52 games)2023–24: 146.6 km/h, 71st percentile (77 games)2024–25: 148.1 km/h, 85th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 137.0 km/h, 42nd percentile (73 games)

Offensive-zone time

40.1%25th pct

▲ +1.4 points since 2024–25

34%36%38%40%42%44%46%21–2222–2323–2424–2525–262021–22: 38.3%, 10th percentile (64 games)2022–23: 35.4%, 1st percentile (52 games)2023–24: 37.6%, 7th percentile (77 games)2024–25: 38.7%, 12th percentile (80 games)2025–26: 40.1%, 25th percentile (73 games)