Sam Steel

Canada Sam Steel

Date of birth	February 3, 1998
place of birth	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg

position	center
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 1st round, 30th position Anaheim Ducks

Career stations

2014-2018	Regina Pats
2018-2019	San Diego Gulls
since 2018	Anaheim Ducks

Sam Steel (born February 3, 1998 in Edmonton , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League since December 2016 .

Career

Sam Steel played for a number of youth teams in Sherwood Park , a suburb of Edmonton , in his youth . In 2013 the Regina Pats selected him in the Bantam Draft of the Western Hockey League (WHL) in second position, so that he ran up for the team from the end of the 2013/14 season in the highest-ranking junior league in the region. In his first two seasons, the Center established as a regular scorer and subsequently took on the CHL Top Prospects Game in part before him Anaheim Ducks in NHL Entry Draft in 2016 considered at the 30th place. He then increased his personal statistics significantly, recording 50 goals and 81 assists for 131 scorer points in 66 games in the 2016/17 season . The Canadian not only led the WHL and thus received the Bob Clarke Trophy , but also surpassed all players in the entire Canadian Hockey League , so that he received the CHL Top Scorer Award . In addition, he was honored as WHL Player of the Year with the Four Broncos Memorial Trophy and appointed to the WHL East First All-Star Team . Meanwhile, he reached the playoff finals for the Ed Chynoweth Cup with the Pats , but lost to the Seattle Thunderbirds .

Steel was unable to build on this performance in the following year 2017/18, recording 83 points in 54 games. However, he took part with Regina as the host team in the Memorial Cup 2018 , in which the center forward topped the scorer list and was therefore awarded the Ed Chynoweth Trophy and also honored with the Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the tournament. With the Pats he reached the final again, but suffered a 3-0 defeat in the final against the Titan d'Acadie-Bathurst .

As part of the preparation for the 2018/19 season, Steel finally won a place in the squad of the Anaheim Ducks, who had already given him an entry-level contract in December 2016 . He subsequently made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in early October 2018 , but spent most of the season with Anaheim's farm team , the San Diego Gulls from the American Hockey League (AHL). In the 2019/20 season, the attacker finally established himself in the NHL.

International

At the international level, Steel gained its first experience in the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 in November , with the team taking seventh place. At U18 level, he took part in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015 , in which the Canadian selection won the gold medal, before no further appearances followed in this age group. The attacker then represented the Canadian U20 national team at the 2018 U20 World Cup and won the gold medal there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

2016 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
2017 Four Broncos Memorial Trophy
2017 Bob Clarke Trophy
2017 CHL Top Scorer Award

2017 WHL East First All-Star Team
2018 Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy
2018 Ed Chynoweth Trophy

International

2015 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
2018 gold medal at the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

			Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013/14	Regina Pats	WHL	5	0	0	0	± 0	0	2	0	0	0	-1	0
2014/15	Regina Pats	WHL	61	17th	37	54	+10	16	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Regina Pats	WHL	72	23	47	70	-8th	24	12	6th	10	16	+5	4th
2016/17	Regina Pats	WHL	66	50	81	131	+49	40	23	11	19th	30th	+8	8th
2017/18	Regina Pats	WHL	54	33	50	83	+27	18th	7th	1	10	11	+6	2
2018	Regina Pats	Memorial Cup							5	2	11	13	-2	4th
2018/19	San Diego Gulls	AHL	53	20th	21st	41	-3	24	16	6th	7th	13	+5	8th
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	22nd	6th	5	11	+2	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL	65	6th	16	22nd	-13	20th	-	-	-	-	-	-
WHL overall			258	123	215	338	+78	98	44	18th	39	57	+18	14th
NHL overall			87	12	21st	33	–11	28	-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Canada Black	WHC	7th place	5	1	2	3		4th
2015	Canada	Hlinka Memorial		4th	1	2	3	+1	2
2018	Canada	U20 World Cup		7th	4th	5	9	+3	0
Juniors overall				16	6th	9	15th		6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹ play-downs / relegation )

Web links

Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
Sam Steel at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

^ Ducks Sign Steel to Three-Year Entry Level Contract. December 20, 2016, accessed October 24, 2018 .

Squad of the Anaheim Ducks in the season 2019/20

personal data
SURNAME	Steel, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada

[1] Ducks Sign Steel to Three-Year Entry Level Contract. December 20, 2016, accessed October 24, 2018 .