{"id":888516,"date":"2026-09-08T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888516\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:22:16","slug":"ilya-samsonov-returns-to-nhl-with-san-jose-sharks-on-one-year-two-way-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/888516\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilya Samsonov returns to NHL with San Jose Sharks on one-year, two-way deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> announced Tuesday that the club has signed goaltender Ilya Samsonov to a one-year, two-way contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Samsonov, 29, appeared in 14 games with HK Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) last season, with a 3.27 goals against average, .903 save percentage and one shutout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had competed in the NHL in the six seasons prior to his return to the KHL, backstopping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in 2024-25, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> from 2022-24 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/washington-capitals\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Capitals<\/a> from 2019-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Over his NHL career, the netminder has amassed a record of 118-48-25 with a 2.77 GAA, .902 SV% and 15 shutouts in 200 league regular season games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Samsonov has also appeared in 22 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests, owning a 3.05 GAA and .901 SV%. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Sharks announced Tuesday that the club has signed goaltender Ilya Samsonov to a one-year, two-way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-888516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}