Returning regular · 2025-26
Samuel Poulin
Montréal Canadiens · RW · — shot · age 25 at the dated snapshot.
- Team
- MTL
- Lane
- RW
- Age
- 25
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
4 RW regulars in MTL
The all-team median is 3.5. MTL’s farm system ranks #5 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?
Tonight · LIVE
MTL at TOR
Projected slot from the licensed depth chart; props from the model's learned layer on shots, finishing and the opposing starter; ratings are last season's until this one has enough games. Information, not a recommendation.
Latest move: The Montreal Canadiens waived F Sam Poulin. (2026-09-28).
White noise · as of 2026-09-29 · social 2026-09-29
Samuel Poulin is in the middle of the pack for attention (56th percentile); attention this week is 2.08× 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: 4 posts named him this week on Bluesky · 14 likes, reposts and replies · no baseline yet, it needs a week of readings.
Contract · MTL
Cap hit not published
2026–27 through 2026–27. Reported
Career arc · era-adjusted points per 82 games
Samuel Poulin, season by season
Each dot is one season. The amber bar is what his earlier seasons and his age predicted for that season (80% band), 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: quantile regression (10th/50th/90th) of qualifying seasons on an age spline, weighted for players who drop out.
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
At the draft the model expected 34 NHL hours through his age-25 season (80% band 1 to 101). He logged 3 hours, between the 10th percentile and the median. The model was applied to his draft class without being fitted or tested on it.
Every season
| Season | Age | GP | Level | Expected (80%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 21 | 3 | 24.8 | −9.2 to 94.5 |
| 2023-24 | 22 | 3 | 0.0 | −8.7 to 91.6 |
| 2024-25 | 23 | 7 | 11.1 | −3.0 to 70.9 |
| 2025-26 | 24 | 2 | 0.0 | −30.2 to 82.1 |
Source: CapOrCup careers desk (method and league curves) · as of 2026-09-29
Comparables at the same age
Who looked like this at 22 to 25
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: age 14 QBAAA 0.80 → age 15 QMAAA 1.26 → age 16 QMAAA 1.74 → age 17 QMJHL 0.82 → age 18 QMJHL 1.13 → age 19 QMJHL 1.67 → age 20 QMJHL 1.32 → age 21 AHL 0.51 → age 22 AHL 0.27 → age 23 AHL 0.76 → age 24 AHL 0.75 → age 25 AHL 0.91
| Player | Distance (lower is closer) | What he did afterwards |
|---|---|---|
| Nikita PopugaevL · matched at ages 22, 24, 25 | 0.04 | age 26 KHL 0.41 → age 27 KHL 0.36 |
| Pierre EngvallL · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.06 | age 26 NHL 0.36 → age 27 NHL 0.38 → age 28 NHL 0.24 |
| Joel ArmiaR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.06 | age 26 NHL 0.52 → age 27 NHL 0.34 → age 28 NHL 0.23 → age 29 NHL 0.33 → age 30 NHL 0.38 |
| Ethen FrankR · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.07 | age 26 AHL 0.33 → age 27 NHL 0.29 → age 28 NHL 0.39 |
| Jason DickinsonC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.07 | age 26 NHL 0.18 → age 27 NHL 0.39 → age 28 NHL 0.43 → age 29 NHL 0.27 → age 30 NHL 0.28 |
| Ross ColtonC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.07 | age 26 NHL 0.40 → age 27 NHL 0.50 → age 28 NHL 0.47 → age 29 NHL 0.33 |
| Andrew CoppC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.07 | age 26 NHL 0.71 → age 27 NHL 0.63 → age 28 NHL 0.51 → age 29 NHL 0.42 → age 30 NHL 0.41 |
| Nicolas RoyC · matched at ages 22, 23, 24, 25 | 0.08 | age 26 NHL 0.46 → age 27 NHL 0.59 → age 28 NHL 0.44 → age 29 NHL 0.34 |
Reading it
If most comparables became NHL regulars and their later peak sits well above this player's current line, the numbers say there is room to grow. If most did not, the numbers say the odds are against it. Either way it is what the data shows, not a name chosen to flatter.
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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Roster moves · as of 2026-09-28
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 Montreal Canadiens waived F Sam Poulin.
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.