{"id":255814,"date":"2025-11-01T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255814\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:38:08","slug":"former-nhl-goaltender-ilya-samsonov-returns-to-khl-with-hc-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255814\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NHL goaltender Ilya Samsonov returns to KHL with HC Sochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former NHL goaltender agreed to a two-year deal with HC Sochi, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/khl_eng\/status\/1984605090091811200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Samsonov was left unsigned after spending last season with the Vegas Golden Knights, going 16-9-4 with a 2.82 goals-against average and a .891 save percentage. <\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old spent seven seasons in the NHL with the Washington Capitals, Toronto Maple Leafs and Golden Knights. In 200 career appearances, the Russian netminder posted a 2.77 goals-against average, .902 save percentage and a 118-48-25 record.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals selected Samsonov with the 22nd overall pick in the 2015 NHL Draft. <\/p>\n<p>Samsonov played five seasons in the KHL before making the jump overseas, playing with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, posting a 33-16-9 record with a 2.20 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage in 73 appearances. <\/p>\n<p>His rights were acquired by HC Sochi from Metallurg for cash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former NHL goaltender agreed to a two-year deal with HC Sochi, the team announced. Samsonov was left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}