Wild ink free agent forward Sam Steel to contract for 2022-23 season
The Minnesota Wild announced on Tuesday that they've agreed to terms on a one-year contract worth $850,000 with unrestricted free agent forward Sam Steel.
Steel, 24, was not issued a qualifying offer from the Anaheim Ducks prior to the July 11th deadline and became an unrestricted free agent two days later. With Mason McTavish likely to play full-time in the NHL next season, along with the signing of Ryan Strome on the opening day of free agency, there wasn't any room at the center position for Steel to return.
The Ardrossan (Alberta) native was drafted by the Anaheim Ducks in the first round (30th overall) in 2016. He made the jump to professional hockey from the Western Hockey League ahead of the 2018-19 campaign and went on to play in parts of four seasons with the Ducks.
In 68 games during the 2021-22 season, Steel put up 20 points (six goals, fourteen assists), sixteen penalty minutes and was a minus-seventeen.
Don't mean to 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙡 anyones thunder but, @ssteel23 is coming to the #StateOfHockey! 🤩#mnwild— Minnesota Wild (@mnwild) August 30, 2022
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Brandon Hagel | - | 5 | 5 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| Nico Hischier | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Macklin Celebrini | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Jakob Chychrun | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Seth Jarvis | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Nikita Kucherov | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Zachary Bolduc | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Will Cuylle | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Lars Eller | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Jake Guentzel | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Alex Iafallo | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Ivan Ivan | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Ivan Barbashev | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Drake Batherson | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Simon Edvinsson | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jack Eichel | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Morgan Frost | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Shayne Gostisbehere | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Miro Heiskanen | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 22 | 18 | 4 | - | 36 | |
Devils | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 32 | |
Hurricanes | 21 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 31 | |
Wild | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 30 | |
Golden Knights | 22 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 30 | |
Capitals | 21 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 29 | |
Maple Leafs | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 28 | |
Flames | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 27 | |
Stars | 20 | 13 | 7 | - | 26 | |
Rangers | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 25 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||