Ilya Samsonov
San Jose Sharks · G · 29 · UFA at expiry
Contract, value & projections
- Paid
- Not on file (no sourced cap hit)
- Worth
- Not on file (goalie market not modelled yet)
- Next
- Not on file (not projected yet)
- Drive (3 seasons)
- Not on file (Skater measure, not applicable to goalies)
Season snapshot2025-26 · NHLMeasures →
Sources & limits
No shot-model sample on file. No uncertainty interval supplied. NHL statistics use their own denominator.
Video & evidence
Ilya Samsonov
No player-matched sequence on file
Team footage is not automatically attributed to this goalie.
Open the video desk →NHL videoHome radio · not connectedAway radio · not connected
Condensed-game sample, not full coverage. Timestamps are video time, not the game clock. Existing model reading, unverified.
The shot record
NHL · 2025–26No NHL shot record supplied.
Shot-location data is unavailable for this sample.
Shot difficulty & result
Existing model sampleGame-by-game trend and a validated uncertainty interval are not available.
Rebounds & coverage
Evidence status- Games with attributed readings
- 0
- Indexed readings
- 0
- Rebound-control rate
- —
Readings may overlap and are unverified; not a unique-play count. Full-game coverage and rebound outcomes are not verified.
Tonight SJS do not play · next league date 2026-10-24 · latest move: The San Jose Sharks waived G Ilya Samsonov. (2026-09-28)
Production and deployment
Official split unavailable
The live official report did not return a matching player row. The dated roster identity and lane screen remain available; production stays unknown.
Organizational context
G regulars in SJS
The all-team median is . SJS’s farm system sits #1 in the maintained two-board consensus.
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?
White noise · as of 2026-10-18 · social 2026-10-18
Ilya Samsonov is quiet (29th percentile); attention this week is 2.1× his usual
How much he is being talked about: the league's own stories tagged to him, daily pageviews of his Wikipedia article against his own 90-day baseline, posts naming him on the connected networks (Bluesky), and the roster moves and listings that make noise. A measure of attention. Whether it affects a player is his business, and a question the history will let us test later.
Social: .
Contract · SJS
Cap hit not published
2026–27 through 2026–27 · UFA at expiry. Reported
Measures · 2025–26 · 80% rank ranges
Where Ilya Samsonov ranks, and how sure we are
Each rank is the 10th to 90th percentile of his place when every skater's value is redrawn 1,000 times from his own band. One season rarely separates a player from the dozens around him.
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.
No NHL EDGE data for this player in 2025-26 (usually fewer NHL games, or a goalie).
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 ·
Ilya Samsonov, 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.
Position band: .
What the numbers found
No shipped label applies. A label is a measured finding about a run of seasons (for example, a spike that came back to the old level), and it is shown only for label types that passed their test on held-out seasons.
Projection at the draft
No draft projection: projections exist for players drafted from 2005 on who have season lines on file, and goalie projections are withheld because they failed their calibration test.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
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Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-10-18
Roster moves · as of 2026-10-17
Latest club announcements
Waivers, claims, injured reserve, the minors and signings as the club announced them (Sportradar NHL API v7, league transfers feed; licensed feed (30-day trial)). No cause is read into an injured-reserve placement.
2026-09-28 · placed on waivers · The San Jose Sharks waived G Ilya Samsonov.
Comparables
Not enough career on file yet
A comparable needs at least two seasons of ten or more games on file.
Fit components (description)
Ilya Samsonov: role, system and coach, as measured
What the shift charts say about Ilya Samsonov's role and his club's game, and what the rules allow. No fit number is shown: fit: not yet validated.
Goalie fit (his save surface against a club's shots against) did not pass its pre-registered test, so no predicted goals saved above expected is shown for any club. The test.
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.
- Trade protection: Not on file. clause not confirmed. CBA Art. 11.8(a)
- Waiver exemption: blocked. signed at 21: past 4 seasons or 60 NHL games (now season 8, 200 games). CBA Art. 13.4
as of 2026-04-16