Samuel Blais

Samuel Blais
Date of birth	June 17, 1996
place of birth	Montmagny , Quebec , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2014 , 6th round, 176th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
2013-2015	Tigres de Victoriaville
2015-2016	Charlottetown Islanders
2016-2017	Chicago Wolves
since 2017	St. Louis Blues San Antonio Rampage

Samuel "Sammy" Blais (born June 17, 1996 in Montmagny , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League since November 2015 and also for their farm team , the San Antonio Rampage , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

In his youth, Samuel Blais played for the Estacades de Trois-Rivières and for the Commandeurs de Lévis , among others , before moving to the Tigres de Victoriaville in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) during the 2013/14 season , the highest ranking junior league in its home province. The Tigres had selected him in the Entry Draft of the LHJMQ in 2013 in 129th place. By the end of the season, the winger played 25 games in Victoriaville and recorded 14 points before he was considered in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in 176th position by the St. Louis Blues . He then significantly increased his personal statistics for the 2014/15 season, reaching 82 points and becoming the second best attacker on his team (after Angelo Miceli ). As a result, he signed an entry-level contract with the Blues in November 2015 and was handed over to the Charlottetown Islanders within the LHJMQ just under a month later . In return, Alexandre Goulet moved to the Tigres. In Charlottetown, the Canadian finished the season with 19 points from 12 playoff games before moving permanently to the St. Louis Blues organization for the 2016/17 season.

There Blais was initially used with the Chicago Wolves , the farm team of the Blues from the American Hockey League (AHL). After establishing himself there as a regular scorer, he made his debut for St. Louis in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of the 2017/18 season . In the course of the year, the attacker came to 11 NHL games, but was mostly on the ice with the new AHL cooperation partner, the San Antonio Rampage . With the start of the 2018/19 season, he continues to switch regularly between the NHL and AHL, but receives more ice age in St. Louis overall. With the team he won the Stanley Cup in the 2019 playoffs .

Achievements and Awards

• 2019 Stanley Cup win with the St. Louis Blues

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2013/14	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		25th	4th	10	14th	+4	0		4th	0	1	1	-1	0
2014/15	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		61	34	48	82	-4	50		4th	2	3	5	± 0	4th
2015/16	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		30th	17th	23	40	–7	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Charlottetown Islanders	LHJMQ		33	16	26th	42	+3	14th		12	4th	15th	19th	+2	14th
2016/17	Chicago Wolves	AHL		75	26th	17th	43	+11	58		10	3	5	8th	+2	18th
2017/18	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		42	17th	23	40	-10	38		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	St. Louis Blues	NHL		11	1	2	3	+1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		26th	8th	10	18th	-8th	55		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	St. Louis Blues	NHL		32	2	2	4th	-1	6th		15th	1	2	3	+3	10
LHJMQ total				149	71	107	178	-4	83		20th	6th	19th	25th	+1	18th
AHL total				143	51	50	101	–7	151		10	3	5	8th	+2	18th
NHL overall				43	3	4th	7th	± 0	12		15th	1	2	3	+3	10

( 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 St. Louis Blues website
• Samuel Blais at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Blues Sign Blais to Entry-Level Deal. nhl.com, November 13, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Islanders acquire Blais from Victoriaville for Goulet. charlottetownislanders.com, December 20, 2015, accessed March 12, 2019 .