Compare players, 2025-26 season

At a glance

Liam O'Brien Josh Samanski

On the radar, each spoke runs from the lowest at the centre to the league leader at the rim, among the regulars at his position: forwards against forwards, defencemen against defencemen. The gap between two players on a spoke is the real gap between their numbers. The dashed shape is the typical player. Hover over a dot for the number. The lines are each player's points adding up, game by game.

Where they shot from

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The numbers

Liam O'Brien C, UTA		2025-26	Josh Samanski C, EDM
	38	Games played	24
	3	Goals	2
	1	Assists	2
	4	Points	4
	0.11	Points per game	0.17
	-6	Plus/minus	2
	35	Shots	9
	8.6	Shooting %	22.2
	115	Hits	27
	43	Penalty minutes	6
	9:09	Average ice time	10:34
Five-on-five, while he was on the ice
	47.3	Corsi for %	49.6
	-6.5	CF% relative to team	-2.4
	48.0	Fenwick for %	50.8
	44.6	Expected goals for %	51.1
	-10.7	xGF% relative to team	-2.0
	33.3	Goals for %	55.0
	96.9	PDO	101.8
	84	Shot attempts taken	27
Expected goals, all situations
	4.5	Expected goals	1.3
	0.78	Expected goals per 60	0.31
	6.9%	Chance per attempt	6.5%
	-1.5	Goals above expected	+0.7
Rating, in goals
	-1.3	Goals above replacement	+0.4
	-0.2	Wins above replacement	+0.1
	-2.2	Even-strength offence	-2.1
	-0.1	Even-strength defence	+2.0
	0.0	Power play	0.0
	0.0	Penalty kill	+0.1
	+0.0	Penalties	-0.3
Contract
	$1M	Cap hit	$975K
	$250K	Cap dollars per point	$244K
	-$354K	Worth at the going rate	$1.1M
	-$1.4M	Value: worth minus cap hit	+$148K

The better value in each stat is highlighted. Stats where more is not clearly better, such as games played, are not judged. Bars show each value against the larger of the two. What the advanced numbers mean