SUNRISE, FL \u2013 Clatty against the Cats.<\/p>\n
Forward Connor Clattenburg will make his NHL debut on Saturday and play alongside David Tomasek and Mattias Janmark on the fourth line when the Edmonton Oilers close out their seven-game road trip with a Stanley Cup Final rematch against the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena.<\/p>\n
“I’ve watched all their playoff games and I know they’re a hard team to play, but I’m just going to bring what I can to hopefully get this team a win tonight,
Clattenburg said.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old received his first NHL call-up on Friday after recording a goal, an assist and 59 penalty minutes with a minus-5 rating in 15 games for the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors this season, having already made an impression on Oilers management during the preseason with his “dying breed” style of play.<\/p>\n
“It’s one thing that’s obviously got me to today and playing in this game tonight,” Clattenburg said. “It’s just something I found in my game during my career, and I’ve just carried it with me. It’s just something I enjoy doing for the team and everyone around me, so let’s continue to do that.”<\/p>\n
After being drafted in the fifth round (160th overall) by the Oilers at the 2024 NHL Draft, the 6-foot-2 and 205-pound product of Arnprior, ON was named captain of the OHL’s Flint Firebirds and finished with 16 goals, 19 assists and 108 penalty minutes in 46 games during the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n
Clattenburg will replace Noah Philp on the roster, who was placed on LTIR on Friday with an upper-body injury, and the coaching staff hopes to see the rookie use his physical and energetic playstyle that’s helped him earn this opportunity against the defending Stanley Cup champions tonight.<\/p>\n
“A guy that’s kind of playing that role in the American League, and will play a very similar role here,” described Head Coach Kris Knoblauch. “Just playing fourth-line minutes, some energy, and he’s brought a lot to his game and has helped his team down there, and we want that same enthusiasm, excitement and physicality.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, FL \u2013 Clatty against the Cats. Forward Connor Clattenburg will make his NHL debut on Saturday and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}