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Right wing · #22 · Rookie

Samuel Poulin

Pittsburgh Penguins
Age
25
Shoots
Left
Height
188 cm
Weight
98 kg
Born
Blainville, CAN
Draft
2019, round 1, #21 (PIT)

Career · 2022–23 to 2025–26

Games
15
Goals
0
Points
2
TOI per game
10:06
xGF% (5v5)
49.0%
Goals above expected
−0.8

Season by season

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

2022–23PIT3011−39:5820.0%10.238.6%
2023–24PIT3000−17:4720.0%00.134.0%
2024–25PIT7011+110:0430.0%00.453.1%
2025–26PIT2000−213:4910.0%00.259.8%
Total1 team15022−510:0680.0%10.849.0%

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)
0.050.10.150.2101112131415
9m10m10m11m101112131415Game

Player card

Model-based

How 2022–23 to 2025–26 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

4th line

23rd 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

Extra / AHL
  • Goals /600.000th pct
  • Assists /600.7939th pct
  • ixG /600.341st pct
  • Goals above expected−0.854th pct

Play-driving

3rd line
  • xGF% (5v5)49.0%50th pct
  • CF% (5v5)55.2%95th pct
  • Relative xGF%−0.254th pct
  • Penalty diff /60-0.792nd pct

Usage

Extra / AHL
  • TOI per game10:0612th pct
  • PP time share10.7%35th pct
  • Offensive zone starts46.7%32nd pct
  • Quality of competition22.5%2nd 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). This player is below the threshold, so the percentiles and ratings are for reference only.

Most similar players this season

Needs a regular role to compare.

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.

−0.8 goals above expected

00.20.40.60.82468101214Game

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

−40−200+20+40+60

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 speed32.0 km/h2nd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph00th pct
  • Hardest shot126.6 km/h16th pct
  • Distance skated7 km6th pct
  • Offensive-zone time38.3%9th 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

32.0 km/h0th pct

▼ −2.6 km/h since 2024–25

303234363822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 34.0 km/h, 4th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 34.9 km/h, 12th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 34.6 km/h, 8th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 32.0 km/h, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

0.00th pct

▼ −1.7 since 2024–25

02468101222–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 8.0, 77th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 10.3, 88th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 1.7, 6th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 0.0, 0th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Distance skated per 60

15.0 km19th pct

▼ −0.6 km since 2024–25

141516171822–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 17.0 km, 99th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 17.3 km, 100th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 15.6 km, 50th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 15.0 km, 19th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Hardest shot

126.6 km/h5th pct

▼ −3.8 km/h since 2024–25

11012013014015016022–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 115.6 km/h, 0th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 134.8 km/h, 18th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 130.4 km/h, 11th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 126.6 km/h, 5th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)

Offensive-zone time

38.3%10th pct

▼ −5.9 points since 2024–25

36%38%40%42%44%46%22–2323–2424–2525–262022–23: 44.7%, 80th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2023–24: 39.9%, 26th percentile (3 games, too few to rank reliably)2024–25: 44.2%, 79th percentile (7 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 38.3%, 10th percentile (2 games, too few to rank reliably)