{"id":559741,"date":"2026-03-25T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559741\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:56:53","slug":"roby-jarventie-has-travelled-a-long-road-to-make-edmonton-oilers-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559741\/","title":{"rendered":"Roby Jarventie has travelled a long road to make Edmonton Oilers debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roby Jarventie made his Edmonton Oilers<\/a> debut Saturday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n

His regular-season debut, anyway.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been in the organization since July 2024, traded along with a fourth-round draft pick for Xavier Bourgault and Jake Chiasson from an Ottawa Senators team that drafted Jarventie in the second round (33rd overall) in 2020.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2 winger out of Tampere, Finland, played seven games with the Senators in the season leading up to the trade, but knee injuries have had a tendency to interrupt his development along the way, only seeing him play a couple dozen American Hockey League games over the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

But this year was about getting him back on track, as he racked up 52 games with the Bakersfield Condors before getting his first call-up to the Oilers last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cA second-round pick and high skill level, a guy who can score, big body but has battled injuries,\u201d said Condors head coach Colin Chaulk. \u201cSo, it\u2019s taken him a year and a half to put together a full season.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started the year with load management and not playing back-to-backs for, I believe, the first six of them. He started really hot, and then he went through the rigours of the season where he was up and down and just finding his way through being able to play every day \u2014 which you\u2019re excited to do, but your body\u2019s not used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With 36 points (17 goals, 19 assists) in 52 games, Jarventie is currently seventh in Condors\u2019 team scoring. And while the call-up represents the next step in the process of his development, Chaulk said there is still plenty of room for improvement in the 23-year-old\u2019s game. And the potential for a high ceiling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are times where he could have skated more and competed a little harder. And then there were times where myself as the coach, I needed to play him more,\u201d Chaulk said. \u201cI would say, overall, he\u2019s had a really good season. And right now, he\u2019s starting to find his groove where he\u2019s learning to battle through and maybe find his B-game.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the conversations I\u2019ve had with him, it\u2019s like, \u2018Keep battling through and find your B-game, and I\u2019ve got to stick with you and I\u2019ve got to play you a few more minutes.\u2019 I think the relationship and combination where we can both give a bit more has been really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

But was it going to be good enough for a call-up this season?<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point I wondered a little bit, but I just tried to focus on every game, every day at a time,\u201d Jarventie said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t really thinking about it, but obviously super excited to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Edmonton Oilers\u2019 Roby J\u00e4rventie (15) during preseason NHL action against the Seattle Kraken at Rogers Place, in Edmonton Wednesday Sept. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n

While he was held off the stats sheet in 8:30 of ice time on the Oilers fourth line, just getting back out on NHL ice in the first place marked a milestone for someone who spent so much time in the physio room over the years working on both knees.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t really know what you were going to get because he was injured,\u201d Chaulk said. \u201cHe\u2019s always been a really good contributor and I think he\u2019s a prospect, for sure. It\u2019s believed he should be a regular Edmonton Oiler here one day soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch has been paying attention to Jarventie\u2019s progress down on the farm.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been having a good year in Bakersfield, and from my count he\u2019s been pretty healthy this year. He\u2019s played a lot of hockey. This year, he\u2019s been able to play in a handful of (Oilers) exhibition games,\u201d Knoblauch said. \u201cA smart player, he\u2019s got a very short stick and I was always wondering why, but it\u2019s something that he feels comfortable with. He can really shoot a puck.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he\u2019s probably earned an opportunity to play some games with us. Right now, he\u2019s been the best forward in Bakersfield, played the best hockey. So, that\u2019s why we called him up. I think he\u2019s a player that can play in the NHL.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s another feather in the cap of the crew in Bakersfield, who continue working away at making sure there are more well-rounded prospects in the pipeline whenever the Oilers find themselves in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere haven\u2019t been many first-round picks, so we\u2019re trying to develop players that can be on the penalty kill,\u201d said Chaulk, who spent all last year helping turn young Oilers forward Matt Savoie into the player he is today. \u201cThat was something Keith McCambridge did, and that myself, on the defensive side of things with Matt to make sure that he was responsible.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as Roby goes, it\u2019s no different. He hasn\u2019t had a lot of penalty killing, it\u2019s not something he\u2019s comfortable doing, but playing on the right side of the puck, playing defensively, and then also providing offence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he\u2019s forechecking, he\u2019s a big body. He\u2019s also really dynamic on entries. He can be pretty nasty when his game is on, and then he can play lots of different spots on the power play, as well. So, he touches a lot of different areas of the game. The only thing he\u2019s not doing is penalty killing, but every other piece of the game he\u2019s a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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