Edmonton has come to rely on Roslovic, who signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract on Oct. 8, the second day of the NHL season. The Columbus, Ohio, native skated on his own at home during training camp, awaiting an offer as an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old forward has 26 points (16 goals, 10 assists) in 50 games for the Oilers, with minimal time on the power play. He\u2019ll be looking to add to his offensive contributions when the Oilers travel to face the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Sunday (9:30 p.m. ET; ESPN, SNW).<\/p>\n
\u201cFive-on-five, it\u2019s difficult to score in the NHL and he\u2019s been able provide us some offense there,\u201d Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a one-time thing. He\u2019s done it in the past. I think he had 20 even-strength goals with Carolina last year and this year, he\u2019s one of our leading goal scorers 5-on-5.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roslovic had 39 points (22 goals, 17 assists) in 81 games for the Carolina Hurricanes last season, so it was somewhat surprising he could not come to terms with a team until the Oilers offered him a one-year contract.<\/p>\n
At the time, Oilers general manger Stan Bowman said it was all Edmonton could afford under the NHL salary cap and, so far, Roslovic has proven to be a bargain.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to really expect when we signed him,\u201d Knoblauch said. \u201cI knew him as a player and what he provided and had some ups and downs with some organizations and went through some hot streaks. From my time with him, he\u2019s exceeded expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton has come to rely on Roslovic, who signed a one-year, $1.5 million contract on Oct. 8, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-521572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521572","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=521572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}