EDMONTON, AB \u2013 \u201cPodzy\u2019s in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just signed a nice little extension for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Head Coach Kris Knoblauch pulled winger Vasily Podkolzin into the middle of the final stretch circle and announced his new contract to the players in attendance at Tuesday\u2019s Training Camp session, the news was met with loud cheers, stick taps and plenty of helmet taps from his Oilers teammates.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re able to witness firsthand how hard a worker the Russian forward is and see him be rewarded with a new deal, it\u2019s reason to celebrate both for \u2018Podzy\u2019 and the Oilers, who know he\u2019ll give his all every night for the club in pursuit of winning the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old\u2019s never-quit ethos, which he demonstrates on a day-to-day basis, now has a long-term place in Edmonton, and both the Oilers and Podkolzin believe it will be a productive partnership that will only increase in value for both parties as time goes on.<\/p>\n
And Podkolzin is adamant he can make good on the Oilers\u2019 investment in his talents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s awesome,\u201d Podkolzin said after Tuesday\u2019s skate about signing his extension. \u201cReally happy to be here for the next few years, and it’s a great group of guys here. We need to get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe just the way the organization works. I do something for them; they do something for me. That’s how it works, and at the end of the day, they gave me a good contract and a good opportunity to be part of this team for the next few years and to finally win a Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 \u201cPodzy\u2019s in the middle.\u201d \u201cHe just signed a nice little extension for us.\u201d When Head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-164984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}