Coach Graham has a strong passion for coaching hockey and developing his players to the next level. For the 2022-23 season, Graham is the head coach for the 12UAAA Quebec team and assistant coach for the 16UAAA team.

Sam Graham started coaching with the LA Jr. Kings during the 2017-18 season at the PWB level. The following season coach Graham led the Jr. Kings PWA2 team (consisting of second round of picks after PWA1) to fourth place in the league out of 23 teams. In the ensuing season Graham led his Bantam AA minor team to first place in the flight two division. During the 2020-21 season, coach Graham led his Bantam AA major team to a state championship and a national championship finalist during the Covid season. 13 players from that team moved on to AAA and one player moved on to prep school. The 5 remaining players returned for the 2021-22 season at Midget AA. During the Midget AA season, Graham led his team back to a state championship and finished third place at nationals. That team had a mix of 10 minor birth year and 10 major birth year players.

Coach Graham coaches for the Western Selects program and is currently head coach for the team that participates in the Edmonton Brick Invitational Tournament. Coach Graham has also coached in the Lions program and the Wade Warriors spring programs where his teams won a pair of championships at the NAFES (2008 elite) and Chi Town Shuffle tournament (2008 and 2009 elite) in 2022.

Sam grew up in Southern California and played for a variety of tier youth clubs. After youth, Sam played a couple seasons for the Hampton Road Jr. Whalers where he was exposed to numerous junior leagues including the NAHL, EJHL, and OJHL. The following season, Graham played in Canada for the Weyburn Redwings in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) putting up a point per game as a rookie. Graham finished his playing days at the University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point. Graham has a degree in the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration- Finance and a Certificate in Accounting from UCLA Extension.