Sam Colangelo

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.

What kind of player

The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.

a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
he lacks itraised, and he does not have it

Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.

playmakerhe lacks it· passes up the shot a scorer takes
“he does not make plays for other people”
forechecks-aggressivelya strength· first man in, and on the puck
“he plays a straight, heavy, forechecking game that suits a bottom six”
net-fronta strength· lives in the blue paint; the screens and the tips
“He gets to the net”
hard-to-movea strength· cannot be shifted from where he decides to stand
“he is difficult to move once there”

The numbers underneath

On the ice

Five-on-five, 2024-25 · 330 minutes

Expected goals: 43.1%; 10th pct
Shot attempts: 40.7%; 1st pct

Goals while he was on the ice: 18 for, 20 against. Expected: 12.6 and 16.7.

The eye and the numbers

Hindsight

Report

49th

Numbers

10th

The report ranks him 39 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 637 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.

Tracked

NHL Edge, 2024-25 · 32 games

Top speed: 22.8 mph; 76th pct
Bursts over 20 mph: 1.28 a game
Distance: 1.98 miles a game
Hardest shot: 85.2 mph; 46th pct

A top speed is a season's best, and a man who takes more shifts gets more tries at one; the percentile is the feed's own, against every skater, and says less between a top-pair defenceman and a fourth-line wing than it does between two men in the same job. The counts are shown per game for the same reason.

Usual linemates

2024-25 · 330 minutes at five-on-five

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 43.1% — 1.5 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	47.3%	37.7%	43.7%
Trevor Zegras	46.5%	41.3%	42.2%
Radko Gudas	53.1%	38.1%	45.7%

47.3% together, 37.7% for him apart and 43.7% for McTavish apart. Both were worse apart, so whatever the two of them had together was doing real work.

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.