- Age
- 24
- Shoots
- Left
- Height
- 188 cm
- Weight
- 90 kg
- Born
- Erding, DEU
- Draft
- Undrafted
Career · 2025–26 to 2026–27
- Games
- 26
- Goals
- 2
- Points
- 4
- TOI per game
- 10:19
- xGF% (5v5)
- 54.7%
- Goals above expected
- −0.1
Season by season
The regular-season line for each season, with the total, by team for traded players.
Form
Rolling averages smooth out single games so the trend shows.
Points and individual expected goals per game (left scale), averaged over the previous ten games. Ice time is on the second chart.
Player card
How 2025–26 to 2026–27 compares with everyone else at the position over the same seasons, and the players with the most similar profile.
Overall rating
4th line
19th percentile among qualified forwards, blending scoring 40%, play-driving 40%, usage 20%.
- 1st line
- 2nd line
- 3rd line
- 4th line
- Extra / AHL
Scoring
Extra / AHL- Goals /600.4520th pct
- Assists /600.459th pct
- ixG /600.487th pct
- Goals above expected−0.155th pct
Play-driving
3rd line- xGF% (5v5)54.7%84th pct
- CF% (5v5)49.1%47th pct
- Relative xGF%+0.960th pct
- Penalty diff /60-0.457th pct
Usage
Extra / AHL- TOI per game10:199th pct
- PP time share0.6%7th pct
- Offensive zone starts54.3%50th pct
- Quality of competition23.3%11th 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
Faceoffs
How often Samanski wins the draw over 2025–26 to 2026–27, against whom and where, and what a win leads to. Ranked among players with 215+ draws over the same seasons.
Win rate
48.4%
61–65 · below the 215 draws of a regular
Against an average centre
47.5%
Opponents won 49.1% of their draws; an average centre would have won 50.9% against them.
Wins above average
−3
Draws won beyond what an average centre facing the same opponents would have won.
Draws per game
5.0
126 draws in all.
By dot, attacking to the right
Win rate at each dot; the small numbers are draws and the xG swing (×100) of winning rather than losing there.
By zone
- Offensive zone46.2% 18–21
- Neutral zone49.2% 31–32
- Defensive zone50.0% 12–12
By strength
- Even strength49.2% 60–62
- Power play0.0% 0–1
- Shorthanded33.3% 1–2
What a win leads to
Shot attempts in the next 20 seconds, for minus against, per 100 draws: +8 after a win, −6 after a loss. Each win was worth 1.5 expected goals per 100 draws more than a loss.
Most-faced opponents
- Frederick Gaudreau50.0% 3–3
- Danila Yurov60.0% 3–2
- Yakov Trenin40.0% 2–3
- Nazem Kadri60.0% 3–2
- Arttu Hyry40.0% 2–3
- Alexander Wennberg60.0% 3–2
- Nicolas Roy50.0% 2–2
- Tomas Hertl25.0% 1–3
Season by season
| Season | Draws | Win rate | Against average |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 112 | 48.2% | 47.2% |
| 2026–27 | 14 | 50.0% | 49.9% |
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.
−0.1 goals above expected
Goals above expected, everyone at the same position with 20+ games
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.
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 speed33.2 km/h26th pct
- Speed bursts over 20 mph336th pct
- Hardest shot0.0 km/h0th pct
- Distance skated4 km8th pct
- Offensive-zone time38.2%23rd pct
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.
Top skating speed
35.0 km/h18th pct
2025–26 only
Bursts over 20 mph per 60
6.460th pct
2025–26 only
Distance skated per 60
15.8 km70th pct
2025–26 only
Hardest shot
120.2 km/h1st pct
2025–26 only
Offensive-zone time
38.7%13th pct
2025–26 only