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Sam Lafferty
Florida Panthers · C · shoots R · 31
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- 0.8% of the cap · through 2026–27 · the contract
- Worth
- 0.8% of the cap · Cup: paid under the market
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Too few minutes to judge (fewer than the minimum 5v5 hours)
Tonight FLA do not play · next league date 2026-11-14 · No qualified retained listing; availability unknown. · No qualified latest retained report; roster state unknown.
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
No usable production record is available. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
C regulars in FLA
The all-team median is . FLA’s farm system sits #30 in the maintained two-board consensus.
Retained statistics · NHL
The retained historical record
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Source: NHL public statistical record · attributed retained snapshot
Questions a GM still has to answer
- How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
- Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
- Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
- What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative and Cup-window effect complete the argument?
Retained attention · declared date 2026-10-20
Sam Lafferty: retained score 66; comparison population unverified; declared article-view ratio 2.13×
Retained declarations only. Sampling, language and population coverage, name matching, missing-input treatment, original reporting window and use permission are unverified. Scores and ranks are not validated comparisons; no effect on play is established.
Reported move field: 1; injury-listing flag: false. No current state inferred.
12 retained declared posts (7-day field); network scope Bluesky; declared engagement 14; declared relative indicator 2.4×; coverage and identity mapping unverified
Contract · FLA
cap hit
2026–27 through 2026–27. Reported
Qualification unknown › Required production, position group or comparison information is unavailable; no value verdict is assigned.
Measures · 2025–26 · simulated 80% rank ranges
Where Sam Lafferty sits in the ranking simulation
These ranges summarize 1,000 simulated rankings, treating players independently and scaling normal draws separately below and above each stored estimate. Shared errors between players are not modeled, and no extra allowance for source or model uncertainty is added here. The middle 80% is a simulation result, not demonstrated coverage of a true or future rank.
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
Range not available (not in this measure's ranked field: too few 5v5 minutes, or no band on file)
NHL EDGE tracking · 2025-26
Speed, shot and ice
From the NHL's own player-tracking data. Percentiles are the NHL's: the share of the league below this player.
Goal archive ·
Every goal, with the league's video
Preseason, regular season and playoffs are kept apart. Each row links to the NHL's own highlight page; no video is hosted here. Where a clip has been reviewed, the reading of it is a model judgement of the frames, not a measurement.
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Career arc ·
Sam Lafferty, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (), so a dot far above its bar is a season the numbers did not see coming. The shaded band is where most players at his position sit at each age.
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at
Careers are compared as league-adjusted points per game by age, over the same ages. The comparables below are the closest lines, and what matters is the spread of what they did next, not any single name.
This player so far:
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Casey CizikasC · matched at ages | ||
| Tyler PitlickC · matched at ages | ||
| Sam CarrickC · matched at ages | ||
| Colin BlackwellC · matched at ages | ||
| Scott SabourinR · matched at ages | ||
| Mattias JanmarkC · matched at ages | ||
| Barclay GoodrowC · matched at ages | ||
| Nicolas DeslauriersL · matched at ages |
Fit components (description)
Sam Lafferty: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Sam Lafferty's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Rules that travel with him: blocked. Club-specific rules (50 contracts, 23-man roster, the two front offices) are on each team's Moves tab.