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Defence · #6

Sam Rinzel

Age
22
Shoots
Right
Height
193 cm
Weight
91 kg
Born
Chanhassen, USA
Draft
2022, round 1, #25 (CHI)

Career · 2024–25 to 2026–27

Games
68
Goals
5
Points
21
TOI per game
18:56
xGF% (5v5)
43.1%
Goals above expected
−2.1

Season by season

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

2024–25CHI9055+123:22220.0%32.045.1%
2025–26CHI5441014−718:16834.8%14.543.2%
2026–27CHI5112−218:04714.3%10.539.9%
Total1 team6851621−818:561124.5%57.143.1%

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)
00.10.20.30.40.50.6102030405060
12m14m16m18m20m22m24m102030405060Game

Player card

How 2024–25 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.

Overall rating

3rd pair

40th percentile among qualified defencemen, blending scoring 30%, play-driving 50%, usage 20%.

  1. 1st pair
  2. 2nd pair
  3. 3rd pair
  4. Extra / AHL

Scoring

1st pair
  • Goals /600.2365th pct
  • Assists /600.7562nd pct
  • ixG /600.3391st pct
  • Shots /605.2288th pct

Play-driving

Extra / AHL
  • xGF% (5v5)43.1%8th pct
  • CF% (5v5)44.9%8th pct
  • Relative xGF%+1.574th pct
  • xGA /60 (lower is better)2.944th pct

Usage

2nd pair
  • TOI per game18:5656th pct
  • PP time share42.2%86th pct
  • PK time share5.3%11th pct
  • Quality of competition24.9%66th pct

Percentiles among defencemen 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).

Finishing

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.

−2.1 goals above expected

02468102030405060Game

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

−50+5+10+15

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 speed32.5 km/h33rd pct
  • Speed bursts over 20 mph125th pct
  • Hardest shot118.9 km/h17th pct
  • Distance skated13 km48th pct
  • Offensive-zone time41.7%56th pct
Tracking, season by season

Each season against the other defencemen 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 defencemanMiddle 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

35.4 km/h50th pct

▲ +1.6 km/h since 2024–25

333435363724–2525–262024–25: 33.8 km/h, 10th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 35.4 km/h, 50th percentile (54 games)

Bursts over 20 mph per 60

1.648th pct

▲ +0.4 since 2024–25

0.511.522.5324–2525–262024–25: 1.1, 33rd percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 1.6, 48th percentile (54 games)

Distance skated per 60

14.4 km92nd pct

▲ +0.2 km since 2024–25

1313.51414.51524–2525–262024–25: 14.2 km, 80th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 14.4 km, 92nd percentile (54 games)

Hardest shot

138.0 km/h10th pct

▼ −0.7 km/h since 2024–25

13514014515015516024–2525–262024–25: 138.7 km/h, 12th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 138.0 km/h, 10th percentile (54 games)

Offensive-zone time

42.3%61st pct

▲ +0.6 points since 2024–25

39%40%41%42%43%44%24–2525–262024–25: 41.7%, 48th percentile (9 games, too few to rank reliably)2025–26: 42.3%, 61st percentile (54 games)