{"id":889422,"date":"2026-09-09T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889422\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:36:14","slug":"oilers-sign-alex-formenton-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889422\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign Alex Formenton to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Formenton is headed back to the NHL.<\/p>\n

Formenton was one of five players accused of a 2018 sexual assault who were acquitted during a two-month trial in London, Ont., last June.<\/p>\n

The Barrie, Ont., native hasn’t played in the NHL since 2021-22, competing with HC Ambri-Piotta of the Swiss league since then. The Ottawa Senators held his rights but reportedly<\/a> cut ties with him in May.<\/p>\n

Formenton is the only player of the five who is immediately eligible for reinstatement to Hockey Canada, the organization announced<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old played parts of four seasons with the Senators, appearing in 109 games with 23 goals and 16 assists after being selected in the second round of the 2017 draft.<\/p>\n

He’ll join an Oilers squad already hit by a rash of injuries, including to forwards Matt Savoie and Mattias Janmark.<\/p>\n

Formenton becomes the third player from the sexual-assault case to receive a contract after the trial ended, joining fellow forward\u00a0Dillon Dube with St. Louis\u00a0and goaltender Carter Hart in Vegas after they signed their respective deals in July and October.<\/p>\n

Michael McLeod\u00a0is under contract\u00a0in the KHL. Cal Foote signed this summer with a team in Sweden, which then\u00a0terminated the deal\u00a0after fans raised objections.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0NHL a year ago reinstated\u00a0all five players, allowing them to play beginning Dec. 1. That came after a judge found them not guilty of sexual assault and McLeod additionally of a separate count of being a party to the offence, in connection with an event there in 2018 celebrating Canada’s gold medal-winning world junior team.<\/p>\n

–with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Formenton is headed back to the NHL. Formenton was one of five players accused of a 2018…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-889422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889422","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=889422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}