{"id":193794,"date":"2025-10-06T20:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193794\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:33:07","slug":"edmonton-oilers-make-multiple-roster-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193794\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Make Multiple Roster Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

After doling out extensions<\/a> to Connor McDavid<\/a> and Jake Walman<\/a> earlier today, the Edmonton Oilers are hustling to become cap-compliant when opening night rosters are due. In that effort, the team announced<\/a> they have placed forward Mattias Janmark<\/a> on the injured reserve, reassigned forwards Isaac Howard<\/a> and David Tomasek<\/a>, and recalled forward James Hamblin<\/a> from their AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors.<\/p>\n

Most of today\u2019s cap crunch is because of Janmark. The nine-year veteran is reportedly<\/a> dealing with an undisclosed injury, which will keep him sidelined for a week or so. Since he\u2019s not expected to miss much time, the Oilers won\u2019t get any cap relief from his $1.45MM salary. He scored two goals and 18 points in 80 games for Edmonton last season, with another three goals and four points in 22 postseason contests.<\/p>\n

The biggest casualty of today\u2019s cap crunch is undoubtedly Howard. The reigning Hobey Baker Award winner was acquired by the Oilers this offseason after failing to reach a contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and was expected to fill an important need for Edmonton in their top six \u2014 inexpensive talent.<\/p>\n

He made a strong case to make the roster this preseason, scoring one goal and four points in six games, which makes today\u2019s move a much more difficult pill to swallow. Still, he\u2019s likely to debut with the Oilers at some point this season. In his final season in the NCAA with the Michigan State University Spartans, Howard recorded 26 goals and 52 points in 34 games.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tomasek, 29, becomes another casualty of Edmonton\u2019s cost-clearing moves. Although he is no longer considered a prospect, he joined the Oilers this summer by signing a one-year, $1.2 million contract as an international free agent.<\/p>\n

Like Howard, he was another inexpensive addition by Edmonton this summer that the team could conceivably put in their top-six. As the reigning Guldhj\u00e4lmen Award (MVP) winner in the SHL from a season ago, Tomasek recorded 24 goals and 57 points in 47 games for the F\u00e4rjestad BK.<\/p>\n

Of all the forwards the Oilers could have recalled, Hamblin gives them the most flexibility since he cleared waivers<\/a> a few days ago. The former WHL standout will begin his sixth season with Edmonton. He spent all of last year in Bakersfield, scoring 19 goals and 45 points in 51 games as one of the team\u2019s assistant captains.<\/p>\n

According to PuckPedia<\/a>, after today\u2019s moves, the Oilers now sit a tight $834, yes, you read that correctly, under the upper limit of the salary cap to start the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After doling out extensions to Connor McDavid and Jake Walman earlier today, the Edmonton Oilers are hustling to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,96437,453,5718,96438,88192,47589,448,82,4584],"class_list":{"0":"post-193794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-david-tomasek","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-isaac-howard","14":"tag-james-hamblin","15":"tag-mattias-janmark","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193794","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=193794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}