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Sami Salo

#6 · Defence · Tampa Bay Lightning

Born Sep 2, 1974 in Turku, FIN · 6'3", 215 lb · Shoots right · Drafted 239th overall in 1996 by OTT (round 9)

Compare with a similar player

The defencemen closest to him in points in 2000-01. Pick one to see the two side by side, or choose someone else.

Kevin Hatcher CAR · 18 P in 57 GP Sylvain Cote WSH · 18 P in 68 GP Aaron Miller LAK · 18 P in 69 GP Bryan Marchment SJS · 18 P in 75 GP Mattias Norstrom LAK · 18 P in 82 GP

Career

Regular season games only. Pick a season to see its game log below. Cap hit is what he counted against the salary cap that season, where it is known.

01020301998-99: 19 points1998-991999-00: 14 points142000-01: 18 points1800-012001-02: 18 points182002-03: 30 points3002-032003-04: 26 points262005-06: 33 points3305-062006-07: 37 points372007-08: 25 points2507-082008-09: 25 points252009-10: 28 points2809-102010-11: 7 points72011-12: 25 points2511-122012-13: 17 points172013-14: 17 points1713-14

Points by season. The darker bar is the season shown below.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Cap hit
1998-99 OTT 61 7 12 19 20 24 106 90 0.31
1999-00 OTT 37 6 8 14 6 2 85 52 0.38
2000-01 OTT 31 2 16 18 9 10 61 57 0.58
2001-02 OTT 66 4 14 18 1 14 122 84 0.27
2002-03 VAN 79 9 21 30 9 10 126 19 0.38
2003-04 VAN 74 7 19 26 8 22 143 75 0.35
2005-06 VAN 59 10 23 33 9 38 140 58 0.56
2006-07 VAN 67 14 23 37 21 26 143 40 0.55
2007-08 VAN 63 8 17 25 8 38 122 36 0.40
2008-09 VAN 60 5 20 25 5 26 110 46 0.42
2009-10 VAN 68 9 19 28 14 18 119 43 0.41
2010-11 VAN 27 3 4 7 -3 14 39 6 0.26
2011-12 VAN 69 9 16 25 7 10 136 29 0.36
2012-13 TBL 46 2 15 17 5 16 48 40 0.37 $3.75M
2013-14 TBL 71 4 13 17 11 18 81 57 0.24 $3.75M
15 seasons Career 878 99 240 339 130 286 1581 732 0.39

Playoffs

Playoff games only. Pick a season to see that year's bracket.

Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP
1998-99 OTT 4 0 0 0 -3 0 10 10 0.00
1999-00 OTT 6 1 1 2 -8 0 19 15 0.33
2000-01 OTT 4 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 0.00
2001-02 OTT 12 2 1 3 4 4 19 29 0.25
2002-03 VAN 12 1 3 4 -2 0 19 15 0.33
2006-07 VAN 10 0 1 1 0 4 27 10 0.10
2008-09 VAN 7 3 4 7 0 2 12 4 1.00
2009-10 VAN 12 1 5 6 2 2 18 20 0.50
2010-11 VAN 21 3 2 5 -4 2 33 21 0.24
2011-12 VAN 5 0 0 0 -3 2 5 3 0.00
2013-14 TBL 2 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 0.00
11 seasons Playoffs 95 11 17 28 -16 16 176 145 0.29

2000-01 season totals

GP G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits P/GP Shooting % Avg TOI
31 2 16 18 9 10 61 57 0.58 3.3 19:44

Contract

Contracts he has signed

Signed Signed by Kind Seasons Years In all Cap hit
2012-13 to 2013-14 $3.75M

Every contract on record for him, newest first, with the team that signed him to it and the day it was signed. The one covering 2000-01 is marked. An extension is signed while the contract before it is still running, often a year ahead. A row with no team or date is a contract known only by its cap hit, most often one signed since October 2024.

Game log

Date Opponent Result G A P +/- PIM Shots Hits TOI
Apr 1, 2001 vs CAR L 2-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 18:30
Mar 30, 2001 vs BOS W 5-4 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 20:11
Mar 26, 2001 vs PHI T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 02:55
Mar 24, 2001 @ NSH W 4-0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 19:47
Mar 21, 2001 @ PHX W 5-2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:39
Mar 18, 2001 @ DAL L 1-5 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 21:11
Mar 16, 2001 vs ANA W 4-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 17:12
Mar 14, 2001 vs ATL W 8-1 0 3 3 2 2 5 1 20:12
Mar 11, 2001 @ WSH L 5-6 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 16:45
Mar 10, 2001 vs NYR L 2-3 0 1 1 -1 0 0 5 18:18
Dec 9, 2000 @ MTL W 4-2 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 12:31
Dec 8, 2000 vs MTL W 1-0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 26:10
Dec 5, 2000 vs PIT L 2-4 0 1 1 -2 0 5 3 25:16
Dec 3, 2000 @ CAR W 2-0 0 1 1 1 0 2 1 19:20
Dec 2, 2000 vs PHI W 5-3 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 21:49
Nov 16, 2000 vs CAR L 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 15:55
Nov 12, 2000 @ CAR L 0-4 0 0 0 -2 0 3 1 15:31
Nov 11, 2000 @ PHI L 3-4 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 24:16
Nov 9, 2000 @ BOS L 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 19:40
Nov 6, 2000 @ ATL W 3-2 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 17:15
Nov 4, 2000 vs CBJ T 2-2 (OT) 0 1 1 2 0 4 1 17:57
Nov 2, 2000 vs NYR W 6-5 0 2 2 0 0 3 2 22:06
Oct 31, 2000 vs TOR W 4-3 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 21:12
Oct 28, 2000 @ FLA L 1-3 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 25:15
Oct 27, 2000 @ TBL W 6-0 1 1 2 3 4 3 1 21:04
Oct 25, 2000 @ PIT W 3-2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 23:06
Oct 21, 2000 vs ATL T 6-6 (OT) 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 24:22
Oct 19, 2000 vs PIT T 3-3 (OT) 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22:17
Oct 17, 2000 @ PHI W 6-1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 21:28
Oct 14, 2000 @ TOR W 4-0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 23:09
Oct 13, 2000 vs NJD W 3-1 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 21:32