20 G · 64 A · 290 GP
0.290 P/GP · 1 PPP · 21:01 ATOI
Buffalo Sabres#23Active
Mattias Samuelsson
D · 6′4″ / 229 lb · Shoots L · Philadelphia, USA · Age 26 · 2018 #32 by BUF
84Career points
0.290Career P/GP
290Games played
20Goals
6 seasonsNHL service
Overview
2025-2641points
The latest read.
41 points in 78 games in 2025-26. Career: 84 points across 290 games.
78GP
13goals
28assists
41points
109shots
0PP points
The career ledger.
Regular season and playoffsofficial NHL landing
3 G · 4 A · 13 GP
0.538 P/GP · 0 PPP · 22:22 ATOI
0.167 → 0.526P/GP by season · 6 seasons of 10+ GP · peak 2025-26
The arc.
Points and points per game by seasonNHL season log · 6 seasons
When it mattered.
Postseason against the field. A smaller, self-selected population, so it is marked on the scale rather than filled626 all-time peers
Playoff career · 13 GP · 3 G · 4 A · 7 pts (0.538 P/GP)
76.2
58.5
73.0
Honours.
Trophies won and near missesofficial NHL landing
All-Star Team15th · 2026
Milestone watch.
The next round number on the league's own fileleague milestone watch · api.nhle.com · fetched 2026-10-05
10away from 300 games playedGames Played · 290 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.
Base rate for the exact pick, a history, never a forecastdraft-position study · 2026-07-14-prospect-translation-v2.32
2018 draft#32round 2 · BUF
Rates: insufficient sample (n=10 of 32): no NHLer/impact/star/stayer rate shown for this cohort.
Best ever at #32: Reid Schaefer (2022, EDM): 47 NHL games. 6 players have been taken at this slot in the classes on file — insufficient sample (n=6 of 12) for a made-NHL rate at this exact slot.
Sample: 10 players taken #32, drawn only from classes old enough to judge, on the Schuckers-style pick curve published on Draft Value. A base rate describes a slot, not a person: it cannot predict this career and is not used to grade it.
Floor rule: rates below a minimum sample are suppressed, not shown thin. Exact slot needs 12+ players, the pooled pick-curve band needs 32+, matching this site's builders to the nhl-draft-intel engine's own bucket-calibration floors (12 / 18 / 32).
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: 78 GP / 13 G / 28 A / 41 Pts / 0.526 P/GP · 22:50 TOI
| Best five | GP | G | A | PTS | P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 78 | 13 | 28 | 41 | 0.526 |
| 2021-22 | 42 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0.238 |
| 2024-25 | 62 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 0.226 |
| 2022-23 | 55 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0.182 |
| 2023-24 | 41 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0.171 |
| Prime-five | 278 | 20 | 62 | 82 | 0.295 |
Last five games.
Most recent official appearancesofficial game log
2026-05-18vs MTLPlayoff28:35 TOI0G 1A1 P · 2 S
2026-05-16@ MTLPlayoff22:53 TOI0G 1A1 P · 1 S
2026-05-14vs MTLPlayoff25:27 TOI0G 1A1 P · 5 S
2026-05-12@ MTLPlayoff23:47 TOI1G 0A1 P · 2 S
2026-05-10@ MTLPlayoff23:05 TOI0G 0A0 P · 1 S
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 apart6 regular-season rows
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26Peak | Buffalo Sabres | 78 | 13 | 28 | 41 | +41 | 0 | 109 |
| 2024-25 | Buffalo Sabres | 62 | 4 | 10 | 14 | +3 | 1 | 52 |
| 2023-24 | Buffalo Sabres | 41 | 1 | 6 | 7 | +4 | 0 | 44 |
| 2022-23 | Buffalo Sabres | 55 | 2 | 8 | 10 | +14 | 0 | 76 |
| 2021-22 | Buffalo Sabres | 42 | 0 | 10 | 10 | -10 | 0 | 44 |
| 2020-21 | Buffalo Sabres | 12 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -8 | 0 | 10 |
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Buffalo Sabres | 13 | 3 | 4 | 7 | +4 | 0 | 19 |
The same numbers, in the league that produced them.
Every qualified season levelled to a 3.00-goal NHLofficial final standings · 1990-91 onward
2025-26 is the best season either way: 0.526 raw, 0.504 once the league it happened in is levelled out.
| Season | GP | Raw P/GP | League GF/gm | Adj. P/GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26Best adjusted | 78 | 0.526 | 3.13 | 0.504 |
| 2024-25 | 62 | 0.226 | 3.04 | 0.223 |
| 2023-24 | 41 | 0.171 | 3.11 | 0.165 |
| 2022-23 | 55 | 0.182 | 3.18 | 0.172 |
| 2021-22 | 42 | 0.238 | 3.14 | 0.227 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | AHL | Rochester Americans | 22 | 2 | 13 | 15 |
| 2020-21 | AHL | Rochester Americans | 23 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2019-20 | NCAA | Western Michigan Univ. | 30 | 2 | 12 | 14 |
| 2019-20 | WJC-20 | USA U20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018-19 | NCAA | Western Michigan Univ. | 35 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2018-19 | WJC-20 | USA U20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-18 | USDP | U.S. National U18 Team | 58 | 11 | 20 | 31 |
| 2017-18 | USHL | USNTDP Juniors | 23 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 2017-18 | WJC-18 | USA U18 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016-17 | USDP | U.S. National U18 Team | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2016-17 | USDP | U.S. National U17 Team | 37 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2016-17 | USHL | USNTDP Juniors | 30 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2015-16 | USA-S15 | Team Grey | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2015-16 | USHS-Prep | Northwood School | 47 | 14 | 15 | 29 |
| 2015-16 | YOG | USA U16 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014-15 | EJEPL 18U | Northwood School Prep | 19 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2014-15 | WSI U15 | East Coast Selects O U15 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 2013-14 | AYBHL | Virtua Hockey Bantam Major AAA | 23 | 6 | 19 | 25 |
| 2012-13 | AYMBHL | Virtua Hockey Bantam Minor AAA | 31 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| 2012-13 | QC Int PW AA Elite | Philadelphia Jr. Flyers | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
The comparable set.
Chosen by a printed rule, not by feelNHL dossier pool · 1,162 careers
Selection rule. Defencemen only; career games played within ±20% of 290 (or ±10 games, whichever band is wider: 232 to 348); 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: 33 of them cleared the band.
Timothy LiljegrenD · 2017 #17 · active311 GP · 21 G · 72 A · 93 P0.299 P/GP · +0.009Alex VlasicD · 2019 #43 · active260 GP · 9 G · 61 A · 70 P0.269 P/GP · −0.020Juuso VälimäkiD · 2017 #16 · active271 GP · 11 G · 61 A · 72 P0.266 P/GP · −0.024Nick PerbixD · 2017 #169 · active299 GP · 16 G · 60 A · 76 P0.254 P/GP · −0.035Cam YorkD · 2019 #14 · active309 GP · 23 G · 80 A · 103 P0.333 P/GP · +0.044
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 speed98.1mph90.1
157.9 km/h equivalent · league average 88.9 mph
Max skating speed22.8mph90.4
36.8 km/h equivalent · league average 21.6 mph
Distance skated398.8km90.4
247.8 mi equivalent · league average 214.3 km
Most distance in one game6.5km86.1
4.1 mi equivalent · league average 5.2 km
Bursts over 20 mph93bursts94.1
league average 31.3
Where the shift was spent
Offensive zone time39.3%15.1
league average 42.3
Neutral zone time17.6%33.3
league average 16.8
Defensive zone time43.1%13.8
league average 40.9
Shots on goal, by location
All shots on goal109shots82.4
league average 62.1 shots
High-danger shots on goal6shots70.7
league average 4.0 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
L Point171 G77th
R Point170 G77th
Outside L151 G95th
L Circle142 G92th
High Slot113 G86th
Center Point103 G54th
Beyond Red Line91 G91th
Low Slot60 G73th
R Circle61 G71th
L Net Side21 G81th
Offensive Neutral Zone10 G56th
R Net Side10 G61th
Behind the Net00 G0th
Crease00 G0th
L Corner00 G0th
Outside R00 G0th
R Corner00 G0th
6high danger0 G · 0.0%
31mid danger6 G · 19.4%
44long range4 G · 9.1%
Method: 109 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.
Awards voting.
0 trophy wins · 0 top-three finishes · 1 ballot appearances · 0 first-place votesNHL award ballot history
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 · 60.3 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.TOR10 points11 GP · 3 G · 7 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.BOS9 points25 GP · 3 G · 6 A23 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.MTL7 points20 GP · 1 G · 6 A35 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.OTT5 points11 GP · 1 G · 4 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.PHI5 points12 GP · 1 G · 4 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Career vs.PIT5 points15 GP · 2 G · 3 A24 shots · 0 PP pointsBest points-per-game matchups
Pace vs.TOR0.91 P/GP11 GP · 3 G · 7 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Pace vs.CGY0.57 P/GP7 GP · 2 G · 2 A8 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.OTT0.45 P/GP11 GP · 1 G · 4 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Pace vs.STL0.43 P/GP7 GP · 0 G · 3 A8 shots · 0 PP pointsPace vs.PHI0.42 P/GP12 GP · 1 G · 4 A13 shots · 0 PP points
Pace vs.SJS0.40 P/GP5 GP · 0 G · 2 A3 shots · 0 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
Mattias Samuelsson has faced 67 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.
Fantasy Desk.
2026-27 rankings on a three-season blend, most recent season weighted heaviestHockey Insights fantasy pool · 2026-09-29
1.75blended ESPN pts/gm
ESPN#135Yahoo#185Fantrax#180Roto#165
25-2678 GP13 G28 A1.99 pts/gm
2nd half+0.02Market avg#211Point games40%Worst blank run9
This desk has Mattias Samuelsson No. 135 among skaters on the ESPN points board — the market has him 76 seats lower.
The room.
Every current Buffalo Sabres teammate, one click awaycanonical player directory