EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Bakersfield Condors have signed Finnish goaltender Eemil Vinni to a one-year, two-way American Hockey League (AHL) contract for the 2026-27 season, the team announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Vinni\u00a0was selected in the second round (64th overall) by the Oilers at the 2024\u00a0NHL Draft after being ranked as the top-rated European goalie by NHL Central Scouting that year, posting a 17-9-10 record with a 2.72 GAA, .892 save percentage and two shutouts with\u00a0Jokipojat Joensuu (JoKP) and helping Finland to a bronze medal at the 2023 Hlinka Gretzky Cup with a 3-1-0 record, a .927 save percentage and 1.75 goals against average in four appearances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-3, 187-pound netminder made 17 more appearances for\u00a0JoKP\u00a0and a further 10 regular-season and playoff games on loan with Ketter\u00e4 last season in Mestis, the second tier of Finnish professional hockey, after missing much of the 2024-25 season with injury,<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old went 8-5-4 with a 2.99 goals-against average and an .884 save percentage over his 17 appearances for\u00a0JoKP before being loaned to Ketter\u00e4 and posting a 2-1-1 record, a .951 save percentage and a 1.23 goals-against average in four regular-season games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a further six playoff contests,\u00a0Vinni recorded a 4-2-0 record, a .943 save percentage and a 1.52 goals-against average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Bakersfield Condors have signed Finnish goaltender Eemil Vinni to a one-year, two-way American Hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-852840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852840","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=852840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}