{"id":693513,"date":"2026-05-25T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T22:26:10","slug":"oilers-sign-finnish-forward-aku-raty-to-1-year-850000-us-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693513\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign Finnish forward Aku Raty to 1-year, $850,000 US deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Aku Raty to a one-year, two-way contract worth $850,000 US at the NHL level, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old from Oulu, Finland, led his Finnish Liiga team Karpat with 57 points (20 goals, 37 assists) during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>He finished tied for seventh in the league in points and recorded a plus-minus rating of plus-eight with 36 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected 151st overall in the 2019 NHL draft by the Arizona Coyotes, Raty has played one NHL game, recording an assist in Arizona&#8217;s 5-2 win over the Oilers on April 17, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He has played in 120 games over two seasons in the American Hockey League, tallying 69 points with a minus-3 rating and 63 penalty minutes with the Tucson Roadrunners and Rockford IceHogs.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Raty represented Finland at the world junior hockey championship in 2020 and 2021, totalling four goals and two assists and helping Finland win bronze in his second appearance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-693513","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\/693513","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=693513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}