Ilya Samsonov has returned to North America after a short stint in the KHL last season.<\/p>\n
Samsonov, 29, signed a one-year, two-way contract with the San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Tuesday. The deal will see the Russian backstop paid $850k with the Sharks in the NHL and $225k with the San Jose Barracuda in the AHL.<\/p>\n \u270d\ufe0f We\u2019ve signed goaltender Ilya Samsonov.<\/p>\n \u2014 San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) September 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Samsonov got a late start to the 2025-26 campaign, signing with HC Sochi in November after becoming an unrestricted free agent the summer prior. He appeared in 14 KHL games, finishing the season with a 3.27 goals-against average, a .903 Save Percentage, and one shutout.<\/p>\n In his last NHL stint, Samsonov served as backup to Adin Hill<\/a> for the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>. He appeared in 29 contests for the 2024-25 Golden Knights, posting a 16-9-4 record with a 2.82 goals-against average, a .891 save percentage, and two shutouts.<\/p>\n Samsonov, a former first-round pick of the Washington Capitals<\/a>, has made 200 career NHL appearances with the Caps, Golden Knights, and Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>, totaling a 118-48-25 record with a 2.77 goals-against average, a .902 save percentage, and 15 shutouts.<\/p>\n The Sharks already have four other goaltenders under contract for next season, including Yaroslav Askarov<\/a>, Eric Comrie<\/a>, Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a>, and Kyle Keyser<\/a>. Askarov got the bulk of the starts last season (47), with Nedeljkovic serving as his backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilya Samsonov has returned to North America after a short stint in the KHL last season. Samsonov, 29,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-457825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}