61 G · 114 A · 491 GP
0.356 P/GP · 19 PPP · 14:24 ATOI
Dallas Stars#18Active
Sam Steel
C · 6′0″ / 185 lb · Shoots L · Ardrossan, CAN · Age 28 · 2016 #30 by ANA
175Career points
0.356Career P/GP
491Games played
61Goals
8 seasonsNHL service
Overview
2025-2633points
The latest read.
33 points in 73 games in 2025-26. Career: 175 points across 491 games.
73GP
12goals
21assists
33points
82shots
3PP points
The career ledger.
Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing
3 G · 11 A · 48 GP
0.292 P/GP · 0 PPP · 14:10 ATOI
0.500 → 0.452P/GP by season · 8 seasons of 10+ GP · peak 2018-19
The arc.
Points and points per game by seasonNHL season log · 8 seasons
When it mattered.
Postseason against the field. A smaller, self-selected population, so it is marked on the scale rather than filled1,215 all-time peers
Playoff career · 48 GP · 3 G · 11 A · 14 pts (0.292 P/GP)
77.1
62.9
52.3
Last five games.
Most recent official appearancesofficial game log
2026-04-30@ MINPlayoff13:35 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S
2026-04-28vs MINPlayoff13:35 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
2026-04-25@ MINPlayoff17:41 TOI0G 0A0 P · 2 S
2026-04-22@ MINPlayoff22:58 TOI0G 0A0 P · 0 S
2026-04-20vs MINPlayoff16:32 TOI0G 0A0 P · 3 S
Milestone watch.
The next round number on the league's own fileleague milestone watch · api.nhle.com · fetched 2026-10-05
9away from 500 games playedGames Played · 491 now · regular season
Published by the league, not computed here: the milestone and the current total are both on the NHL milestone feed, and the number printed is the difference. Playoff milestone rows are held out, because a playoff total read as a career total is a false statement.
What this draft slot returns.
Observed careers at the same pick, across all positionsdraft history · 2026-08-14 00:35 UTC
2016 draft#30round 1 · ANA
19Players in sample
89.5%Reached the NHL
Most games in this sample: Brock Nelson (2010, NYI), 1,001 NHL games.
Sample: 19 players taken #30, across all positions, from draft classes through 2018 on file. Historical totals reflect the 2026-08-14 00:35 UTC snapshot; Sam Steel's games use this page's NHL career record. Active careers can still grow.
These are observed outcomes, not a forecast for Sam Steel. Exact-slot rates require at least 12 players. Draft Value methodology.
Against history.
Percentile against every NHL peercareer totals · position-aware
The height of the career.
Peak season and the best five41+ GP qualified seasons
2025-26 peak: 73 GP / 12 G / 21 A / 33 Pts / 0.452 P/GP · 16:04 TOI
| Best five | GP | G | A | PTS | P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 73 | 12 | 21 | 33 | 0.452 |
| 2022-23 | 65 | 10 | 18 | 28 | 0.431 |
| 2019-20 | 65 | 6 | 16 | 22 | 0.338 |
| 2024-25 | 79 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 0.316 |
| 2023-24 | 77 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 0.312 |
| Prime-five | 359 | 43 | 89 | 132 | 0.368 |
Career
Where he stands right now.
2025-26 league position and career shapeNHL league browser 2025-26
Season by season.
Every NHL season · peak highlighted, split seasons kept apart8 regular-season rows
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26Peak | Dallas Stars | 73 | 12 | 21 | 33 | +3 | 3 | 82 |
| 2024-25 | Dallas Stars | 79 | 6 | 19 | 25 | -6 | 0 | 89 |
| 2023-24 | Dallas Stars | 77 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 86 |
| 2022-23 | Minnesota Wild | 65 | 10 | 18 | 28 | +11 | 3 | 85 |
| 2021-22 | Anaheim Ducks | 68 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -17 | 3 | 66 |
| 2020-21 | Anaheim Ducks | 42 | 6 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 0 | 42 |
| 2019-20 | Anaheim Ducks | 65 | 6 | 16 | 22 | -13 | 8 | 85 |
| 2018-19 | Anaheim Ducks | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | +2 | 2 | 33 |
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Dallas Stars | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -7 | 0 | 6 |
| 2024-25 | Dallas Stars | 18 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 0 | 13 |
| 2023-24 | Dallas Stars | 19 | 1 | 4 | 5 | +1 | 0 | 19 |
| 2022-23 | Minnesota Wild | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 6 |
The same numbers, in the league that produced them.
Every qualified season levelled to a 3.00-goal NHLofficial final standings · 1990-91 onward
2018-19 is the best season either way: 0.500 raw, 0.498 once the league it happened in is levelled out.
| Season | GP | Raw P/GP | League GF/gm | Adj. P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 73 | 0.452 | 3.13 | 0.434 |
| 2024-25 | 79 | 0.316 | 3.04 | 0.312 |
| 2023-24 | 77 | 0.312 | 3.11 | 0.300 |
| 2022-23 | 65 | 0.431 | 3.18 | 0.406 |
| 2021-22 | 68 | 0.294 | 3.14 | 0.281 |
| 2020-21 | 42 | 0.286 | 2.94 | 0.292 |
| 2019-20 | 65 | 0.338 | 3.02 | 0.336 |
| 2018-19Best adjusted | 22 | 0.500 | 3.01 | 0.498 |
Method: each season's raw points per game is multiplied by 3.00 ÷ that season's league goals per team-game, taken from the official final standings. Seasons under 20 games are excluded. It levels scoring climate and nothing else (not role, ice time, teammates, schedule or injury), so treat it as one comparison, not a verdict.
Before the NHL.
Junior, college, European and international rowsofficial NHL landing · season totals
| Season | League | Team | GP | G | A | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | AHL | San Diego Gulls | 53 | 20 | 21 | 41 |
| 2018-19 | AHL | San Diego Gulls | 16 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2017-18 | M-Cup | Regina Pats | 5 | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| 2017-18 | WHL | Regina Pats | 54 | 33 | 50 | 83 |
| 2017-18 | WJC-20 | Canada U20 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2017-18 | WHL | Regina Pats | 7 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2016-17 | WHL | Regina Pats | 66 | 50 | 81 | 131 |
| 2016-17 | WHL | Regina Pats | 23 | 11 | 19 | 30 |
| 2015-16 | Ivan Hlinka Memorial | Canada U18 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015-16 | U18-Dev | Team White | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015-16 | WHL | Regina | 72 | 23 | 47 | 70 |
| 2015-16 | WHL | Regina | 12 | 6 | 10 | 16 |
| 2014-15 | WHL | Regina | 61 | 17 | 37 | 54 |
| 2013-14 | AJHL | Sherwood Park | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013-14 | AMHL | Sherwood Park | 14 | 7 | 16 | 23 |
| 2013-14 | WHL | Regina | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013-14 | AMHL | Sherwood Park | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013-14 | WHL | Regina | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012-13 | AMBHL | Sherwood Park Flyers Bantam AAA | 31 | 52 | 52 | 104 |
| 2012-13 | AEHL U15 | Sherwood Park Flyers U15 AAA | 5 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2011-12 | AMBHL | Sherwood Park Flyers Bantam AAA | 33 | 26 | 24 | 50 |
| 2011-12 | AEHL U15 | Sherwood Park Flyers U15 AAA | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2010-11 | ERBHL | Strathcona Warriors Bantam AA | 11 | 17 | 15 | 32 |
The comparable set.
Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers
Selection rule. Forwards only; career games played within ±20% of 491 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 393 to 589); then the five nearest by career P/GP, ties broken by the closest games played. The pool is the 1,162 players in this site's NHL dossier set who own at least one official regular-season game: 82 of them cleared the band.
Eetu LuostarinenC · 2017 #42 · active447 GP · 61 G · 101 A · 162 P0.362 P/GP · +0.006Stefan NoesenR · 2011 #21 · active482 GP · 83 G · 92 A · 175 P0.363 P/GP · +0.007Jake EvansC · 2014 #207 · active418 GP · 52 G · 100 A · 152 P0.364 P/GP · +0.007Jordan GreenwayL · 2015 #50 · active475 GP · 56 G · 109 A · 165 P0.347 P/GP · −0.009Miles WoodL · 2013 #100 · active567 GP · 99 G · 97 A · 196 P0.346 P/GP · −0.011
Similar career shape is not similar player. The rule matches volume and rate only; it knows nothing about era, position within the group, usage or role, and two careers can land on the same line for opposite reasons.
Game log
Compare observed minutes, shots and finishing across game windows →
Official game ledger
Every 2025-26 appearance.
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Insights
NHL Edge tracking.
Measured puck and player tracking · 2025-26 regular seasonNHL Edge tracking · api-web.nhle.com · coverage from 2021-22 · fetched 2026-08-17
Tracked axisMeasuredPercentile, 0 to 100Pct
Top shot speed86.2mph57.7
138.7 km/h equivalent · league average 83.6 mph
Max skating speed22.1mph41.0
35.5 km/h equivalent · league average 22.2 mph
Distance skated304.0km72.2
188.9 mi equivalent · league average 198.8 km
Most distance in one game6.3km89.2
3.9 mi equivalent · league average 4.7 km
Bursts over 20 mph77bursts61.1
league average 75.2
Where the shift was spent
Offensive zone time40.3%24.7
league average 43.1
Neutral zone time18.1%67.1
league average 16.8
Defensive zone time41.6%25.4
league average 40.1
Shots on goal, by location
All shots on goal82shots54.6
league average 85.9 shots
High-danger shots on goal38shots62.2
league average 31.6 shots
Method: every figure and every percentile on this panel is published by the NHL Edge endpoint. This site converts nothing and ranks nothing. The percentile column is the league's own, against the tracked population for 2025-26. Speeds arrive in mph and km/h; distance is read in kilometres with the mile conversion stated beside it. Tracked seasons on file for this player: 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26.
The shot map.
Where his shots came from · 2025-26 regular season · NHL Edge areasNHL Edge shot-location detail · api-web.nhle.com · fetched 2026-08-18
Hover, tap or focus an area for its exact figures. Net at the top; left and right as the shooter sees them.
AreaShotsShare of hisPct
Low Slot355 G65th
High Slot142 G74th
L Circle101 G63th
Center Point40 G70th
Beyond Red Line30 G74th
Crease33 G48th
Offensive Neutral Zone30 G67th
Outside L30 G44th
R Circle30 G31th
Outside R21 G36th
Behind the Net10 G56th
L Point10 G30th
L Corner00 G0th
L Net Side00 G0th
R Corner00 G0th
R Net Side00 G0th
R Point00 G0th
38high danger8 G · 21.1%
27mid danger3 G · 11.1%
5long range0 G · 0.0%
Method: 82 shots on goal in 2025-26, placed by the NHL into the areas it names; each area is shaded by its share of his total, so this map is his distribution and not a comparison to any other player. The percentile column is the league's own for shots from that area, where it publishes one; nothing is converted, ranked or combined. Areas as the NHL names them; the drawing is to rink proportion with the net at the top.
Development trails.
How the scoring rate movedNHL AI Development contract
Strict monotonic scoring-rate chains ending in 2025-26. Only 25-plus-game seasons count, and a trail needs at least three consecutive qualified seasons.
Points / game
3 consecutive qualified seasons · 76.3 average GP
Descriptive, not evaluative: raw P/GP, G/GP or A/GP movement. It does not control for age, role, ice time, teammates, injury, schedule or uncertainty, and it is not a forecast or player-quality grade.
Opponent atlas.
Career results by opponentlocal NHL AI Opponent Atlas
Career volume leaders
Career vs.CHI13 points21 GP · 2 G · 11 A26 shots · 2 PP points
Career vs.EDM13 points29 GP · 6 G · 7 A40 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.LAK12 points27 GP · 6 G · 6 A25 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.STL12 points30 GP · 3 G · 9 A41 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.UTA11 points28 GP · 3 G · 8 A28 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.VAN10 points16 GP · 8 G · 2 A28 shots · 0 PP pointsBest points-per-game matchups
Pace vs.VAN0.63 P/GP16 GP · 8 G · 2 A28 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.CHI0.62 P/GP21 GP · 2 G · 11 A26 shots · 2 PP points
Pace vs.TOR0.56 P/GP9 GP · 3 G · 2 A19 shots · 0 PP points
Pace vs.FLA0.50 P/GP10 GP · 0 G · 5 A9 shots · 2 PP points
Pace vs.NYR0.50 P/GP10 GP · 2 G · 3 A12 shots · 0 PP points
Pace vs.NYI0.45 P/GP11 GP · 2 G · 3 A20 shots · 1 PP pointsFrozen from the local NHL AI Opponent Atlas. These are descriptive career splits through the source snapshot, not a projection of the next matchup and not evidence that the opponent caused the result.
Against the goaltenders.
Goaltenders faced, from play-by-playNHL play-by-play · 2023-24, 2024-25, 2025-26 · 4,192 games · fetched 2026-08-18
Sam Steel has faced 70 goaltenders in this dataset but none of them for the 20 shots on goal a published rate requires here. The counts exist; the rates would be noise, so they are not printed.
The source receipt.
Official basics plus named researchOfficial NHL API Web player landing, with local nhl api draft cache reuse
Career, season, game-log, bio, draft and award rows come from official NHL endpoints. Redraft is a separate hindsight model with its own snapshot clock. Pressure is a descriptive Gamelogs layer. Development Trails uses its own declared clock. Missing evidence stays unavailable rather than being drawn as zero.
Official endpoint: player landing · redraft 2026-07-10-redraft-v5.2 snapshot 2026-07-09.
The room.
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