Sam Colangelo
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Right Wing
10 goals in 32 games at a 24 per cent shooting rate, which is the most misleading line in this edition.
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ANA | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14.3 | 12:33 |
| 2024-25 | ANA | 32 | 10 | 2 | 12 | -4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 24.4 | 12:29 |
| 2025-26 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 35 | 11 | 2 | 13 | -4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 22.9 | 12:29 |
This Season So Far
The 2025-26 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
10 goals and 2 assists in 32 games for 12 points, minus-4, on 12:29 a night.
24.4 per cent shooting on 41 shots. That is not a rate, it is a small number divided by a smaller one, and a 10-goal debut built on it should be read as roughly 4 goals of player and 6 of variance.
The Finesse Game
A heavy shot from a big frame, and a willingness to use it from the slot — 40 per cent of his attempts came from inside 20 feet. There is a genuine NHL release here.
There is almost nothing else. 2 assists in 32 games is not a small sample problem, it is a description: he does not make plays for other people, and the puck skills at speed are ordinary. He needs a centre.
The Physical Game
6-2 and 213, and he plays a straight, heavy, forechecking game that suits a bottom six. He gets to the net and he is difficult to move once there.
2 penalty minutes in 32 games is remarkable and probably an accident. Nothing about the way he plays suggests a disciplined player so much as a young one being careful.
The Intangibles
A second-round pick who took the college route and a full American League season, and arrived at 23 rather than 20, which is the normal path and looks slower than it is.
The honest projection is a bottom-six winger who scores 12 in a full season. The club will find out quickly, because 24 per cent shooting does not survive a second look.
The numbers underneath
On the ice
Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 330 minutes
- Expected goals
- 42.1%
- 6th pct
- Shot attempts
- 40.5%
- 1st pct
share of the chances while he was out there
share of the attempts while he was out there
Goals while he was on the ice: 16 for, 23 against. Expected: 12.6 and 17.3.
The eye and the numbers
HindsightThe report ranks him 36 points above where the numbers do. It was written for a back edition, with the seasons that followed already known. Neither the agreement nor the gap says anything about the eye, and this report is excluded from the club-level comparison for the same reason. Why the numbers land there sets out the club he did it on, the minutes he played and the men he played them with.
Both bars are percentiles among the 315 skaters in this edition with a report and enough ice time. The report bar ranks the mean of the grades above — 72 on their own scale — against every other report's mean. The numbers bar ranks his share of expected goals. A gap is a disagreement about where he belongs, not two scales talking past each other.
Usual linemates
2024-25 · 330 minutes at five-on-five
- Trevor Zegrasnow PHI35%
Share of his five-on-five ice time spent alongside each player, measured from shift charts. Special teams are excluded: a power-play unit is not a line.
Why the numbers land there
Five-on-five, 2024-25
- The club
- ANA took 44.6% of the expected goals as a club. His own share is 42.1% — 2.5 below the club he did it on.
- The role
- 330 minutes at five-on-five — 7th percentile in ice time.
With and without
| Teammate | Together | Him apart | Mate apart |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason McTavish | 44.8% | 38.6% | 41.9% |
| Trevor Zegras | 43.6% | 41.4% | 43.1% |
| Radko Gudas | 49.2% | 38.2% | 45.9% |
44.8% together, 38.6% for him apart and 41.9% for McTavish apart. He was worse away from McTavish, who was no better away from him — he needed that pairing more than McTavish did.
Expected-goal share while both were on the ice, and for each man in the minutes he played without the other. Apart is the pair subtracted from his own totals. It does not settle who was carrying whom — apart from each other, both were still playing with somebody — but it does say whether the share travelled when the pairing broke up.
Where he shoots from
goal on goal missed
65 unblocked shots in 2024-25, 9 of them goals. His median goal came from 15 feet. 40% of his shots came from inside twenty feet, 15% from beyond forty.