{"id":840993,"date":"2026-09-08T21:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840993\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:04:21","slug":"sharks-sign-goaltender-ilya-samsonov-to-one-year-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840993\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks sign goaltender Ilya Samsonov to one-year, two-way contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose Sharks (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanjosesharks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager Mike Grier announced today that the club has signed goaltender Ilya Samsonov to a one-year, two-way contract.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samsonov, 29, appeared in 14 games with HK Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in 2025-26, finishing the campaign with a 3.27 Goals Against Average (GAA), .903 Save Percentage (SV%) and one shutout.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samsonov had competed in the NHL in the six seasons prior to his return to KHL action, backstopping the Vegas Golden Knights in 2024-25, Toronto Maple Leafs from 2022-24 and Washington Capitals from 2019-22. 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. He logged career bests across all categories in 2022-23 with Toronto, posting 27 wins, a 2.33 GAA, .919 SV% and four shutouts. Samsonov has also appeared in 22 career Stanley Cup Playoff contests, owning a 3.05 GAA and .901 SV% in those games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his North American career, Samsonov primarily played in the KHL from 2015-18 with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, helping the club capture the Gagarin Cup in 2016, his first year in the league. Over his five-year career on the circuit, he logged a 36-24-9 record with a 2.37 GAA, .924 SV% and eight shutouts over 87 appearances. He also appeared in 23 games in Russia\u2019s premier junior league, the MHL, going 16-4-1 with a 2.47 GAA, .922 SV% and two shutouts over parts of three seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In international competition, Samsonov represented Russia and the 2016 and 2017 World Junior Championships, winning a Silver Medal in 2016 and Bronze in 2017. He was named to the tournament\u2019s All-Star Team in the latter tournament after going 3-3-0 with a 2.11 GAA, .930 SV% and two shutouts. Samsonov also was named Best Goaltender at the 2014 U-18 World Junior Championship after going 2-1-0 with a 2.67 GAA to accompany a .934 SV%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-three, 208-pound native of Magnitogorsk, Russia was originally selected by the Washington Capitals in the 2015 NHL Draft (first round, 22nd overall).<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager Mike Grier announced today that the club has signed goaltender Ilya Samsonov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-840993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}