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Sykora signed a one-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers Friday. The forward had spent last season with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and New York Rangers. The Oilers are Sykora's fourth NHL team since joining the league in the 1995-96 season. He was the New Jersey Devils' first pick in the '95 NHL draft. |
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Sykora scored 23 goals and had 28 assists last season, his seventh straight in which he scored 20 or more goals. |
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Hemsky signed a six-year, $24.6 million deal with the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday, avoiding an arbitration hearing. The Oilers' forward posted career highs in goals (19) and assists (58) for a team-leading 77 points last season. "He is one of the NHL's emerging offensive players and coming off of a breakout season that saw him lead the Oilers in scoring, we believe he will continue to get better," Oilers assistant general manager Scott Howson said in a statement. |
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Hemsky recorded six goals and 11 assists in 24 playoff games, helping the Oilers come within a win of the Stanley Cup championship. The 22-year-old native of the Czech Republic has 37 goals and 104 assists in 211 career games spanning three seasons with Edmonton. |
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Horcoff signed a three-year, $10.8 million deal with the Edmonton Oilers on Friday, avoiding salary arbitration. He could have become an unrestricted free agent next summer. Horcoff will earn $3.6 million a year after making $1 million last season, making him the second-highest paid Oiler after goalie Dwayne Roloson, who earlier this summer signed an $11-million, three-year deal. |
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Horcoff had a career-high 73 points in 79 games last season, his fifth in the NHL _ all with the Oilers. He also had 19 points in 24 games during Edmonton's surprise playoff run. |
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Tjarnqvist signed a one-year deal with the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday after he spent last season with Minnesota. The unrestricted free-agent defenseman had three goals and 15 assists in 60 games for the Wild last season. He also played on Sweden's gold-medal winning team in Turin. "He's got good size, he's a good puck mover, has some experience, and hopefully just coming into his own in the NHL," Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe said. |
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Tjarnqvist, who spent his first three seasons with Atlanta, has 13 goals and 58 assists over 278 career games. |
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Reasoner signed a $1.9 million, two-year contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday, returning to the team that traded him away on March 9 in exchange for Sergei Samsonov. Reasoner had nine goals and 17 assists in 58 games for the Oilers last season before being sent to Boston, where he added two goals and six assists in 19 games. |
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Reasoner has 47 goals and 84 assists in 311 career games spanning seven seasons. |
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Anaheim traded Lupul to Edmonton on Monday along with defenseman Ladislav Smid and three future draft picks in exchange for defenseman Chris Pronger. Lupul, a 22-year-old right wing, recorded 28 goals and 25 assists for the Ducks last season. He became the first NHL player to score four goals in a playoff game, in Game 3 of the second round against Colorado. Lupul finished with nine goals and two assists in 16 postseason games. |
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Lupul, an Edmonton native, has 41 goals and 46 assists in 156 career games during his two NHL seasons. |
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The Oilers re-signed Roloson to a three-year, $11 million contract Saturday. |
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The 36-year-old Roloson carried the Oilers through the first three rounds of the playoffs this past season before hurting his knee in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. Edmonton lost the series in seven games to the Carolina Hurricanes. After joining the Oilers from Minnesota near the trade deadline, Roloson posted a regular-season record of 8-7-4 with one shutout and a 2.42 goals-against average. He posted a 12-5 mark in the playoffs with one shutout and a 2.33 GAA. |
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Pisani scored his playoff-leading 14th goal in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday, but Edmonton still fell 3-1. The Oilers' right wing finished with 18 points in 14 playoff games |
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Pisani had 18 goals and 19 assists during the regular season, both career-bests. |
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Pisani scored two goals, including the game-winner, on Wednesday against the Carolina Hurricanes. The 4-3 victory brings Saturday's Game 6 back to Edmonton, and the Oilers right wing heads into it with an NHL-leading 12 playoff goals. "You can't get too confident," he said. "We're still down 3-2 and they are still in the driver's seat right now. At the same time, we've got to keep levelheaded and make sure that we're ready to play once the puck drops." |
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Pisani scored 18 goals in the regular season and his game-winning shot was the first shorthanded goal in Stanley Cup Final history. His league-leading scoring mark for the 2006 playoffs is shared with Hurricanes center Rod Brind'Amour. |
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Markkanen has been named the Oilers' starting goaltender for the remainder of the Stanley Cup finals against the Carolina Hurricanes. He made 21 saves in a 5-0 loss to the Hurricanes in Game 2 on Wednesday in his first start since March 1 and first playoff appearance. |
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Markkanen became the starter after Dwayne Roloson suffered a sprained MCL in Game 1 that will keep him out for the rest of the series. Ty Conklin entered for him after the injury, but a key mistake with 32 seconds left in the third period caused the Oilers to lose 5-4. |
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A knee injury knocked Roloson out of Monday night's Stanley Cup finals game and the Edmonton Oilers goalie is not expected to return this series. The team did not disclose further details of Rolson's injury. Roloson went down during the third period of Monday's 5-4 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. |
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Pisani scored twice in Edmonton's 6-3 win over San Jose Sunday night, opening the scoring in the first period and putting the Oilers up for good with a third-period score that broke a 3-3 tie. He had just 18 goals in 80 regular-season games, but has a total of seven in 11 playoff contests. |
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The Edmonton Oilers risked falling behind 3-0 in their second-round series with the San Jose Sharks, but Horcoff improved the Oilers' playoff chances in the early morning hours Thursday when he beat Sharks goalie Vesa Toskala at 2:24 of the third overtime to give Edmonton a 3-2 victory in Game 3. Edmonton hosts Game 4 Friday with a chance to knot the series at two games apiece. |
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Lupul scored a team-record four goals in the Mighty Ducks' 4-3 overtime win over the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals on Tuesday. The right wing has scored in all three games of the series to help the Mighty Ducks to a 3-0 series lead. |
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Lupul had one goal against the Calgary Flames in the Mighty Ducks' opening-round seven-game series win. This is his first playoff action after two regular seasons with Anaheim. |
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Dvorak was scratched from Edmonton's lineup for Game 2 on Monday against the San Jose Sharks after injuring his right knee in Game 1 of their conference semifinal series on Sunday, won by the Sharks 2-1. Oilers coach Craig MacTavish said he expects the right winger to miss "the better part" of the series. |
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Dvorak had yet to score a point in the playoffs after recording eight goals and 20 assists in a regular season also marred by injuries. |
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Hemsky scored twice in Monday's 4-3 win over Detroit to help Edmonton advance to the semifinals of the Western Conference playoffs. The Oilers' right wing, who had not scored in the previous five games of the series, tallied the game-winning goal with 1:06 remaining. |
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Hemsky had 19 goals and 58 assists for 77 points during the regular season, which were all career bests. |
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Stoll's goal at 8:44 of the second overtime gave Edmonton a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday and a 2-1 lead in their first-round playoff series. The goal ended the Oilers' third-longest overtime game and first home playoff game in three years. "It's big for everything," Stoll said. "We needed that win, and we needed it bad." |
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Stoll, who had 22 goals and 46 assists in 82 games during the regular season, is tied with Chris Pronger for the team lead in goals in the series with two. |
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Roloson made 54 saves in the Oilers' 3-2 overtime loss to the Red Wings in Game 1 of their first-round series Friday. |
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Roloson's regular-season high for saves was 52 on Oct. 28. The eight-year veteran is 3-2-2 in his last seven games with a 1.75 GAA and .939 save percentage. |
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Murray scored his first NHL goal in more than two years Monday in the Oilers' 4-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche. Murray, a healthy scratch for the last eight games, signed a one-year deal with Edmonton on March 5 and returned to the NHL after missing the final 43 games of the 2003-04 season due to a nerve condition in his neck. |
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This is a nice way to end the season for Murray, who has 94 goals and 215 points in 560 games with Edmonton, the New York Rangers and Nashville. He scored a career-high 21 goals with the Oilers in 1998-99. |
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Smyth scored two goals including the game-winner in the Oilers' 4-3 overtime win over the Blackhawks on Friday. |
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Smyth has scored three goals in the last two games, and has an eight-game point streak with five goals and six assists in that span. The 11-year veteran has 36 goals this season, three shy of his career high set in 1996-97. |