The Edmonton Oilers have signed their man – and no, it’s not Taylor Hall or Tyler Sequin.
Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, Edmonton’s first-round selection in last year’s NHL entry draft, agreed to a three-year contract Tuesday, assuring the 19-year-old left winger will be at training camp this September.
Paajarvi-Svensson spent this past season with Timra IK of the Swedish Elite League and scored 12 goals and 17 assists in 49 games.
Oilers general manager Steve Tambellini said in a news release: “This is an exciting day for the Oilers organization. In signing his first NHL contract, Magnus has demonstrated through his junior and pro career with Team Sweden that he is an explosive player who exhibits great determination going to the net. We look forward to seeing him at his first NHL training camp this fall.”
The 6-foot-2, 201-pound Paajarvi-Svensson was the 10th overall pick in the 2009 draft and played at the 2010 world championship where Sweden won the bronze medal. He also competed at the 2008 and 2009 world juniors and won a silver medal both times.
The Oilers hold the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NHL draft and have not said which player they favour – Hall, from the Windsor Spitfires, or Seguin, from the Plymouth Whalers. Seguin was rated the top prospect by the Central Scouting Bureau and plays centre, a position where the Oilers need immediate help.
Posted on 1 June '10, under Oilers. No Comments.
Daryl Katz has applied to rezone 16 acres of downtown land for ambitious project, but won’t say how much he expects the city to pay.
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Posted on 19 April '10, under Developments, Oilers. No Comments.
The results mean the Oilers will select first in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft and will have the luxury of deciding whether to take Taylor Hall of the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires or Tyler Seguin of the Plymouth Whalers.
Posted on 13 April '10, under Oilers. No Comments.
Khabibulin you should know better!
Injured Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin faces DUI and speeding charges after being arrested in Arizona.
Khabibulin, 37, was pulled over in a black Ferrari early on Feb. 8, after a Scottsdale police officer clocked him at 70 mph in a 45 mph zone, according to the arrest report.
“I had one glass (of wine),” Khabibulin told arresting officer B. Patterson, who noted in his report that Khabibulin’s eyes were bloodshot and watering, and that he smelled moderately of alcohol and spoke slowly.
The traffic stop was made at 12:37 a.m. in a residential area of Paradise Valley, an affluent town just northwest of Scottsdale.
The officer asked Khabibulin if he knew why he was pulled over and he replied, “Speed.”
Khabibulin, who said he was going 80 mph and later failed to produce proof of insurance, agreed to a field sobriety test.
He was arrested shortly before 1 a.m. and booked into a district jail.
Posted on 17 February '10, under Oilers. No Comments.
Is here’s a fight brewing between the Katz Group and Northlands over who will build and control a new hockey arena, Northlands will now have help from two heavy-hitting lobbyist firms.
Can’t we all just get along and get this done?
Posted on 2 February '10, under Business, Oilers. No Comments.
Georges Laraque has played his last game as a member of the Montreal Canadiens and the veteran enforcer isn’t happy about it.
The hockey club says it intends to buy out the final year of Laraque’s contract at the end of the season and have sent him home for the rest of the campaign.
Soooo …. can we have him back? Oilers need all the help they can get.
Posted on 21 January '10, under Oilers. No Comments.
A new downtown arena in Edmonton? An excellent idea trumpeted NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
Bettman was in Edmonton on Wednesday, making his annual pass through the west. While in town, he met with Oilers president Patrick LaForge and Bob Black, the executive vice-president of Sports and Entertainment for the Katz Group during which time he received an update on the proposed arena project.
Source: faceoff.com
Posted on 21 January '10, under Oilers. No Comments.
Forbes magazine has released its much-anticipated annual survey of the value of the National Hockey League’s 30 franchises.
The latest Forbes rankings, which reflect data compiled by the U.S. business magazine’s editors for the 2008-2009 NHL season, show the Edmonton Oilers holding down 24th spot, with an estimated value of $166 million US. Daryl Katz bought the team for $200 million just under a year ago.
Posted on 12 November '09, under Oilers. No Comments.
Ladislav Smid, who contracted the H1N1 virus about two weeks ago, may have passed the swine flu along to his Edmonton Oilers teammates, but he didn’t know he had it until Tuesday.
“I’m worried … I don’t want anybody getting sick because of me,” said Smid, who is the fourth NHL player to get it.
Not good for Oiler Fans.
Posted on 29 October '09, under Oilers. No Comments.
Calgary Flames forward David Moss scored his second goal of the game with 49 seconds left, pouncing on a major gaffe by Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin in a 4-3 result at Rexall Place on Saturday night.
Posted on 4 October '09, under Oilers. No Comments.