{"id":387562,"date":"2026-01-02T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:47:07","slug":"oilers-recall-isaac-howard-quinn-hutson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/387562\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Recall Isaac Howard, Quinn Hutson"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oilers announced<\/a> they\u2019ve recalled wingers\u00a0Isaac Howard<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Quinn Hutson<\/a>\u00a0from AHL Bakersfield. They had two open roster spots after reassigning<\/a>\u00a0Max Jones<\/a>\u00a0to Bakersfield on Thursday, so no further moves are required.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Edmonton gives two of its brightest young forwards their second chance on the active roster this season. Howard, last season\u2019s Hobey Baker Award winner as the NCAA\u2019s top men\u2019s player, broke camp with the Oilers after they acquired his signing rights<\/a> from the Lightning.<\/p>\n

Immediately slotting in as Edmonton\u2019s No. 2 prospect, he never got a crack in their top six and languished in a fourth-line role for several weeks to begin the season. After recording just two goals and an assist in 17 appearances, averaging 9:30 of ice time per game, the Oilers ended the 21-year-old\u2019s initial run of NHL play and assigned him to Bakersfield to give him his first taste of minor-league hockey.<\/p>\n

In the month and a half since his demotion, Howard has been among the AHL\u2019s best players. With a 10-13\u201323 scoring line in 16 contests, he\u2019s tied for the league lead in points per game (1.44). The 5\u201911\u201d lefty has been especially hot as of late, recording four goals and 10 points \u2013 including a trio of three-point efforts \u2013 on a four-game point streak.<\/p>\n

Hutson, 24, entered the season as more of an unknown. The older brother of Canadiens star Lane and Capitals prospect Cole was never drafted but broke out as a college superstar as a junior for Boston University in 2024-25, racking up 23 goals and 50 points in 38 games. He signed an entry-level deal with Edmonton as a free agent near the end of the year and skated in the Oilers\u2019 final two games of the regular season, although he was ineligible to suit up in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Viewed as a long-shot candidate to make their opening night roster with more established prospects like Howard and Savoie having a leg up, he was sent to Bakersfield to begin the first full season of his pro career. Like Howard, he\u2019s been among the AHL\u2019s most dominant offensive wingers, ranking top-five in the league in both goals (19) and points (32) in 26 appearances.<\/p>\n

That emphatic production got Hutson his NHL debut last month, appearing in a three-game stretch for Edmonton in mid-December. Like Howard, his ice time was extremely limited at just 7:34 per game, but that didn\u2019t stop him from scoring his first NHL goal against the Bruins on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n

Now, with six goals and eight points in his last four games for Bakersfield, he gets another opportunity to make himself known as an NHL commodity. Whether head coach Kris Knoblauch will give him and Howard a long enough leash to make a tangible impact remains to be seen, but with veterans Mattias Janmark<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrew Mangiapane<\/a>\u00a0struggling to produce in top-nine roles on the wing, it\u2019s becoming near indefensible not to give some of the Oilers\u2019 most promising talent a chance higher up in the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oilers announced they\u2019ve recalled wingers\u00a0Isaac Howard\u00a0and\u00a0Quinn Hutson\u00a0from AHL Bakersfield. They had two open roster spots after reassigning\u00a0Max…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,3275,207819,575,8648,85,206],"class_list":["post-387562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-isaac-howard","tag-nhl","tag-quinn-hutson","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387562","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=387562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}