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Photo of NHL player Samuel Ersson

Philadelphia Flyers Logo Samuel Ersson

Position Goaltender Current Team Philadelphia Flyers
Catches Left Current Contract 2 years ($1.4M CapHit)
Height 6'3" Expires 2025-26
Weight (lbs) 194 Expiry Age (Jun 30) 26
Age (DOB) 26 (Oct 20, 1999) Expiry Status RFA-arb
Drafted 2018, Round 5, Overall 143 (PHI)
Date Team Transaction
Nov 7, 2025 Philadelphia Flyers Activated from IR
Oct 30, 2025 Philadelphia Flyers Placed on IR
Dec 8, 2024 Philadelphia Flyers Activated from IR
Nov 17, 2024 Philadelphia Flyers Placed on IR
Aug 5, 2023 Philadelphia Flyers Signed 2 years @ $1.450M AAV starting in 2024-25
Jun 3, 2021 Philadelphia Flyers Signed to an entry level contract.
Status History Coming Soon

About Player Cards

Player cards present an infographic of a players performance using a series of Player Archetypes developed for Puckalytics.com and TheStanleyCap.com. The boxes in the rink image show the archetype ratings for the season specified in the card while the graphs to the right show the five-year trends for those archetypes.

Except for Faceoffs, the values shown are the players z-score (standard deviation from the mean) for the specific metric used to calculate the archetype values. When calculating z-scores forwards were compared to forwards and defensemen were compared to defensemen. Positive values indicate the player is above average and shaded in blue, while negative values indicate the player is below average and shaded in punk. The five year trend charts show a range of -4.0 to 4.0.

The value shown for Faceoffs is the faceoff winning percentage rather than their z-score with winning percentages below 50 in pink shades and above 50 in blue shades.

All archetypes are 5v5 except 5v4 TOI, 4v5 TOI, Skating (even strength) and Faceoffs (all situations). Archetypes use regular season data only.

Archetypes Summary
  • Sniper - Measures the to score above the expected goal rate.
  • Rebound - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rebounds (forwards only).
  • 5v4 TOI - Powerplay ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 5v4 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
  • Shooter - Measures whether a players points come from shots (goals or assists on rebounds from his shots).
  • Producer - Measures a players ability to produce goals and assists, adjusted for quality of teammates.
  • Playmaker - Measures whether a players points come from passes.
  • Drive - Measures a players ability to drive puck possession and generate shot attempts for his team.
  • Rush - Measures the percent of a players shot attempts that come from rush plays
  • Possession - An indicator of a players ability to improve his teams puck possession game.
  • Faceoffs - Faceoff Winning Percentage (min. 75 faceoffs taken).
  • 5v5 TOI - The percentage of his teams 5v5 TOI that the player was on the ice for.
  • Suppress - Measures a players ability to suppress opponent puck possession and shot attempts against.
  • Skating - An indicator of a players skating ability, or speed bursts above 20mph per mile skated.
  • Defend - An indicator of a players ability to suppress shot quality against.
  • 4v5 TOI - Penalty Kill ice time, calculated as the percentage of his teams 4v5 ice time that the player was on the ice for.
Data Sources
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5v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2022-23 PHI 12 502:21 44.43 31.05 3.10 2.99 0.11 90.38 90.03 0.35
2023-24 PHI 51 2236:46 36.32 24.14 2.14 2.44 -0.30 89.89 91.15 -1.26
2024-25 PHI 47 2100:56 38.13 25.53 2.07 2.71 -0.65 89.37 91.90 -2.53
2025-26 PHI 33 1456:44 37.15 22.45 2.37 2.88 -0.51 87.16 89.44 -2.28

4v5 Goalie Stats

Season Team(s) GP TOI SAA/60 SA/60 xGA/60 GA/60 GS/60 Sv% xSv% Sv%AE
2022-23 PHI 12 57:30 77.22 43.83 8.86 6.26 2.60 85.71 79.77 5.94
2023-24 PHI 51 213:48 66.51 43.78 6.98 5.89 1.08 86.54 84.06 2.48
2024-25 PHI 47 182:26 68.74 44.07 6.98 6.58 0.40 85.07 84.16 0.92
2025-26 PHI 33 157:51 71.84 46.75 7.07 6.46 0.61 86.18 84.88 1.30

Legend

Percentile 0-25 Percentile 25-50 Percentile 50-75 Percentile 75-100

Glossary

Statistic Definition
SAA/60Shot Attempts Against per 60 minutes.
SA/60Shots Against per 60 minutes.
xGA/60Expected Goals Against per 60 minutes.
GA/60Goals Against per 60 minutes (lower is better).
GS/60Goals Saved per 60 minutes (xGA/60 -GA/60).
Sv%Save Percentage.
xSv%Expected Save Percentage.
Sv%AESave Percentage above Expected (Sv% - xSv%).
Data from Puckalytics.com (starting in 2015-16).

News and Opinions

Current Contract

Samuel Ersson signed a $2,900,000 2-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers and General Manager Daniel Briere on August 5, 2023 with an AAV of $1,450,000. This contract will start in 2024-25 and end after the 2025-26 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.65% of the salary cap.

Standard Contract (RFA) ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2024-25 24 $1,450,000 $1,450,000 - $300,000 $1,000,000 $1,300,000 $1,300,000 RFA
2025-26 25 $1,450,000 $1,450,000 - - $1,600,000 $1,600,000 $1,600,000 RFA-arb
Total - $300,000 $2,600,000 $2,900,000 $2,900,000
Signed: Aug 5, 2023
Team: Philadelphia Flyers
GM: Daniel Briere
Exp. Status: RFA-arb
Cap %: 1.65

Previous Contracts (show) (hide)

Samuel Ersson signed a $2,577,500 3-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers and General Manager Chuck Fletcher on June 3, 2021 with an AAV of $859,167. This contract will start in 2021-22 and end after the 2023-24 season. In the first season of the contract the cap hit was equivalent to 1.05% of the salary cap.

Entry Level Contract ( )  (0 ratings)

Season Age* Clause Cap Hit AAV Perf. Bonus Sign. Bonus Salary Compensation Minors Salary Status
2021-22 21 $859,167 $925,000 $82,500 $92,500 $750,000 $842,500 $70,000 ELC
2022-23 22 $859,167 $925,000 $82,500 $92,500 $750,000 $842,500 $70,000 ELC
2023-24 23 $859,167 $925,000 $32,500 $92,500 $800,000 $892,500 $70,000 ELC
Total $197,500 $277,500 $2,300,000 $2,577,500 $210,000
Signed: June 3, 2021
Team: Philadelphia Flyers
GM: Chuck Fletcher
Exp. Status: RFA

Career Statistics

Regular Season Playoffs
Season League Team GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv% GP GS W L OTL SA GA GAA Sv%
2013-14 J18 Div.1 Falu IF J18 2 1 7.95 0.889
2014-15 Division 2 Falu IF 1 3.17 0.909
2014-15 J18 Div.1 Falu IF J18 2 9 2.38 0.934
2014-15 U16 SM Falu IF U16 3 3 139 22 7.33 0.842
2015-16 J18 Region Brynäs IF J18 15 12 3 343 28 1.86 0.918
2015-16 J18 Nationell Brynäs IF J18 7 6 1 231 18 2.56 0.922 2 2 57 5 2.50 0.912
2016-17 J20 Nationell Brynäs IF J20 12 6 5 361 34 2.95 0.906
2016-17 J18 Region Brynäs IF J18 13 12 1 314 19 1.45 0.940
2016-17 J18 Nationell Brynäs IF J18 14 14 401 23 1.64 0.943 4 2 2 101 8 2.02 0.921
2017-18 SHL Brynäs IF 1 17 2 3.00 0.882
2017-18 J20 Nationell Brynäs IF J20 40 27 13 1261 101 2.53 0.920 5 2 3 154 22 4.44 0.857
2018-19 HockeyAllsvenska Västerås IK 36 27 9 1045 70 1.95 0.933 5 4 1 128 8 1.60 0.938
2018-19 WJC-20 Sweden U20 4 3 1 116 9 2.23 0.922
2019-20 SHL Brynäs IF 35 14 20 920 97 2.90 0.895
2020-21 SHL Brynäs IF 42 16 26 1299 116 2.96 0.911 5 4 1 138 7 1.30 0.949
2021-22 AHL Lehigh Valley Phantoms 5 3 121 13 2.96 0.893
2022-23 NHL Philadelphia Flyers 12 12 6 3 327 33 3.07 0.899
2022-23 AHL Lehigh Valley Phantoms 42 24 17 1 1189 119 2.84 0.900 3 1 2 1 96 12 3.71 0.875
2023-24 NHL Philadelphia Flyers 51 51 23 19 7 1204 132 2.82 0.890
2024-25 NHL Philadelphia Flyers 47 47 22 17 5 1162 136 3.14 0.883
2024-25 4 Nations Sweden 1 1 1 33 1 1.00 0.970
2024-25 WC Sweden 5 4 76 5 1.16 0.934
2025-26 NHL Philadelphia Flyers 33 33 14 11 5 744 97 3.12 0.870
NHL Career 143 143 65 50 17 3437 398 3.01 0.884