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| SEPTEMBER, 2000 | |
| Date | Transaction |
| Sept. 28: | The NHL releases the list
of players left available for Friday's waiver draft. The Oilers'
protected and available players include:
Protected: Sean Brown, D; Patrick Cote, F; Mike Grier, F; Bill Guerin, F; Brett Hauer, D; Chad Kilger, F; Georges Laraque, F; Todd Marchant, F; Ethan Moreau, F; Rem Murray, F; Frank Musil, D; Janne Niinimaa, D; Domenic Pittis, F; Tom Poti, D; Jason Smith, D; Ryan Smyth, F; Igor Ulanov, D; Doug Weight, F; Joaquin Gage, G; Tommy Salo, G. Available: Adam Bennett, D; Jozef Cierny, F; Scott Ferguson, D; Paul Healey, F; Ralph Intranuovo, F; Fredrik Lindquist, F; Alain Nasreddine, D; Reijo Ruotsalainen, D; Terran Sandwith, D; Sergei Yerkovich, D; Alexander Zhurik, D; Alexandre Fomitchev, G. |
| Sept. 26: | Oilers reassign defencemen SCOTT FERGUSON and ALAIN NASREDDINE to the Hamilton Bulldogs. |
| Sept. 23: | Oilers re-sign left-winger RYAN SMYTH to a three year contract. Smyth, who has missed all of training camp in a contract hold-out, scored 28-27-55 in 82 regular season games last season. He added one goal in five playoff games. |
| Sept. 22: | Oilers cut four more players from their pre-season roster. Defenceman CHRIS HAJT and centers SHAWN HORCOFF and PETER SARNO were assigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs. Defenceman ALEXEI SEMENOV was returned to the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League. |
| Sept. 19: | Oilers make their second round of training camp cuts, assigning right wingers DEVIN HARTNELL, PAUL HEALEY and BRIAN URICK, left-winger ALEXANDER VOLCHKOV and defenceman TERRAN SANDWITH to the Hamilton Bulldogs |
| Sept. 14: | Center MIKE COMRIE leaves training camp and elects to return to the Kootenay Ice of the WHL. Comrie hopes to take advantage of a loophole in the NHL drafting process that allows players who give up their final year of college eligibility to become unrestricted free agents. If the Oilers do not sign him before June 1, 2001, Comrie is free to go to the highest bidder. Because the Oilers can only offer him the rookie salary cap of $1.025 million, it seems doubtful that Comrie, who was drafted in the 3rd round (91st overall) of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, will ever play for Edmonton. |
| Sept. 11: | Oilers announce that right winger MIKE GRIER will not be available for the start of the team's eastern road trip after being sidelined with an infected right hand. He is listed as day-to-day. |
| Sept. 11: | Oilers conduct the first-round
of training camp cuts.
ASSIGNED TO HAMILTON: Goaltenders
Defensemen
Centers
Left
Winger
Right
Wingers
RETURNED TO JUNIOR: Defensemen
Centers
Right
Wingers
RELEASED: Goaltenders
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| Sept. 11: | Left winger JOSH GREEN suffers a dislocated left shoulder in a training camp scrimmage, and will undergo major reconstructive surgery Sept. 20 to repair the damage. Green is expected to be out of the Oilers' line-up until the All-Star break. |
| Sept. 7: | Oilers re-sign right winger GEORGES LARAQUE to a three-year deal worth a reported $2.6 million. Laraque, widely regarded as one of the NHL's toughest fighters, scored 8-8-16 with 123 PIM in 76 regular season games last season, and added one assist and six PIM in five playoff games. |
| Sept. 7: | Oilers re-sign center DOUG WEIGHT to a one-year, $4.3 million contract. Weight, the Oilers' captain, led the team in scoring last season with 21-51-72 in 77 regular season games. He added 3-2-5 in five playoff games. |
| Sept. 5: | Oilers re-sign left winger REM MURRAY to a three-year, $3.3 million contract. Murray, who suffered through serious shoulder and knee injuries last season, scored 9-5-14 in 44 regular season games and added one assist in five playoff games. |
| Sept. 5: | Oilers sign center SHAWN HORCOFF to a three-year contract. Horcoff won the CCHA scoring title after scoring 8-36-44 in 28 games with Michigan State University last season. He was named the CCHA Player of the Year, CCHA Best Defensive Forward was a Hobey Baker Award finalist. Horcoff is expected to challenge for the fourth line center spot on the Oilers' roster. |
| AUGUST, 2000 | |
| Date | Transaction |
| Aug. 31: | Oilers sign defenceman ALAIN
NASREDDINE and right-winger PAUL
HEALEY to undisclosed contracts.
Nasreddine scored 1-6-7 with 190 PIM in 70 games with the Hamilton Bulldogs last season. He was acquired from the Montreal Canadiens, along with defenceman Igor Ulanov, in exchange for defencemen Christian Laflamme and Mathieu Descouteaux. Healey spent last season with the Milwaukee Admirals of the IHL, scoring 21-18-39 in 76 games. He was originally drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the seventh round, 192nd overall, of 1993 NHL entry draft. |
| Aug. 24: | Oilers re-sign left winger ETHAN MOREAU to a three-year contract. Moreau scored 17-10-27 in 73 regular season games and added one assist in five playoff games. He underwent successful shoulder surgery in the off-season and is expected to be ready for training camp. |
| Aug. 23: | Center BOYD
DEVEREAUX signs a three-year, $4.6 million contract with the
Detroit Red Wings. Devereaux was to become a restricted free agent
this off-season, but was not made a qualifying offer by the Oilers after
suffering a serious concussion and being advised to retire. But Devereaux
sought a second opinion during the summer and was given the green light
to play again.
Devereaux, who was drafted by the Oilers in the first round, 6th overall, in the 1996 NHL Entry draft, scored 6-8-14 in 61 games last year before being injured April 1 as a result result of a hit from Phoenix Coyotes forward Dallas Drake. |
| Aug. 23: | Oilers re-sign left winger DAN LACOUTURE to a one-year contract. LaCouture played five regular season games and one playoff game with the Oilers last season, but was held pointless. He also scored 23-17-40 in 70 regular season games with the Hamilton Bulldogs, and added 2-3-1 in six playoff games. |
| Aug. 21: | Oilers announce that vice-president and assistant general manager BRUCE MACGREGOR will retire at the end of August. The move comes after MacGregor, who has been with the Oilers since 1974, elected not to accept a redefined role within the organization. |
| Aug. 18: | Oilers re-sign right winger MIKE GRIER to a two-year contract. Grier, one of the team's best checkers, scored 9-22-31 in 62 regular season games last season. He missed the final 12 games and the playoffs with a torn tricep muscle. |
| Aug. 15: | Oilers re-sign defenceman SEAN BROWN to a one-year contract, plus an option for a second season. Brown scored 4-8-12 with 192 PIM in 72 regular season games last season. He was scoreless with 23 PIM in three playoff games. |
| Aug. 14: | Unrestricted free agent left winger MICHEL PICARD signs a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. Picard was originally signed as a free agent by the Oilers on Dec. 2, 1999. He was held pointless in the two games with the team, but tallied 33-35-68 in 65 games with the Grand-Rapids Griffins of the IHL. |
| Aug. 14: | Oilers name MARK LAMB assistant coach in charge of player development. Lamb, who played for five seasons with the Oilers, will assist with the development of all players in the team's system, but will focus on younger players in the minors. |
| Aug. 11: | Oilers re-sign defenceman JASON SMITH to a two-year contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing that had been set for Aug. 14. Smith was the Oilers' steadiest defensive defenceman last season, scoring 3-11-14 in 80 games and leading the team with a +16 rating. He added one assist in the Oilers' five playoff games. |
| Aug. 11: | Oilers announce the resignation of Executive Vice President of Business Operations DOUG PIPER. Piper, who has been with the team since 1996, is leaving at the end of August to pursue other opportunities in the U.S. |
| Aug. 10: | Oilers name CLAUDE JULIEN as the new head coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs. Julien has spent the last four seasons as head coach of the Hull Olympiques, where he led the team to the 1996-97 Memorial Cup. |
| Aug. 8: | Oilers re-sign center TODD MARCHANT to a two-year contract, avoiding a scheduled salary arbitration hearing. Marchant scroed 17-23-40 in 80 regular-season games last season, and added one goal in three playoff games. |
| JULY, 2000 | |
| Date | Transaction |
| July 27: | Oilers re-sign defenceman IGOR ULANOV to a one-year contract. Ulanov scored 0-3-3 in 14 regular season games with the Oilers last season, and was scoreless in the team's five playoff games. He was acquired from the Montreal Canadiens back on March 9, along with minor-league defenceman Alain Nasreddine, in exchange for defencemen Christian Laflamme and Matthieu Descoteaux. |
| July 26: | Oilers re-sign defenceman BRAD NORTON to a one-year contract. Norton, who did not play a game with Edmonton last year, scored 5-12-17 with 104 PIM in 40 games with the Hamilton Bulldogs. |
| July 26: | Oilers sign free agent center DOMINIC PITTIS to a two-year contract. Pittis spent last season with Rochester of the AHL, scoring 17-48-65 in 53 regular season games, and another 4-26-30 in 21 playoff games. He also played seven games with the Buffalo Sabres, scoring one goal. Pittis was originally drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round, 52nd overall, of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft |
| July 26: | Oilers announce the appointments of pro scouts BOB MANCINI, GORD PELL and STUART MACGREGOR to one-year contracts. Mancini will concentrate on junior and college scouting, MacGregor will track WHL players and Pell will cover the OHL, QMJHL and ECHL. |
| July 25: | Oilers
sign goaltender JOAQUIN
GAGE to a one-year contract. Gage
played 29 games last season with the Canadian National Team, notching a
13-10-2 record, a 3.25 GAA and a .897 SPCTG. He signed with the Hamilton
Bulldogs at the end of Team Canada's season and appeared in two regular
season games and 10 post-season games, where he had a 5-5 record and a
2.89 GAA.
Gage was originally drafted by the Oilers in the 6th round, 109th overall, of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. With the retirement of Bill Ranford, Gage will likely serve as backup to netminder Tommy Salo next season. |
| July 24: | Center
ROB
MURRAY signs a multi-year contract with
the Philadelphia Flyers. Murray, who was acquired from the
Phoenix Coyotes for center Eric Houdeon Dec.
1, 1999, scored had 12-23-35 and added 170 PIM in
77 games last season for the AHL's Springfield Falcons and Hamilton
Bulldogs. He did not play a game with Edmonton. |
| July 21: | Oilers name CHARLIE HUDDY and BILL MOORES assistant coaches. Huddy, who won five Stanley Cups with the Oilers, has spent the past two years as an assistant with the New York Rangers. Moores also has two years of experience as a Rangers' assistant, but is better known as the former coach of the University of Alberta Golden Bears. He spent last season as the executive director of the Hockey School at Donnan. |
| July 20: | Oilers trade goaltender KAY WHITMORE to the Boston Bruins for future considerations. Whitmore was originally acquired from the Bruins back on Dec. 29, 1999 in exchange for minor-league defenceman Mike Matteucci. He did not play a game for Edmonton. |
| July 19: | Oilers sign free agent defenceman
TERRAN
SANDWITH to a one-year
contract. This will be Sandwith's second stint with the Oilers. After first signing with the organization as a free agent in 1996, Sandwith played eight games with Edmonton and another 137 games with the Cape Breton Oilers and Hamilton Bulldogs. He left the Oilers to sign as a free agent with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 1998, and spent last season in the Toronto Maple Leafs' organization. |
| July 15: | Center TODD MARCHANT and defenceman JASON SMITH file for salary arbitration. If the two players are unable to come to terms with the Oilers in the next 30 days, an NHL arbitrator will accept submissions by both the team and the players and will award a new one-year contract based on the winning proposal. Marchant and Smith are now unable to sign offer sheets with another NHL team. |
| July 13: | Oilers sign left winger
JOSH
GREEN and defenseman ALEXEI
SEMENOV to undisclosed contracts.
Green, who was acquired from the New York Islanders in the Roman Hamrlik trade last month, scored 12 goals and 14 assists in 49 games last season. Semenov has spent the last two seasons with the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League. Last year, he had nine goals and 35 assists in 65 games. |
| July 12: | TED GREEN is named assistant coach of the New York Rangers. Green, who had been with the Oilers organization for 18 years, was an assistant in Edmonton last year but opted to join Glen Sather in the Big Apple. He is joined by Hamilton Bulldogs head coach WALT KYLE, who was also hired as an assistant coach. Former Oilers head coach RON LOW rounded out the Oilers' eastern reunion, as he was named head coach of the Rangers. |
| July 6: | Oilers name PATRICK LAFORGE president and chief executive officer. |
| July 5: | Oilers sign free agent defenceman
SCOTT
FERGUSON to an undisclosed contract. Ferguson has played
the past two seasons for the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the American Hockey
League, scoring seven goals and 25 assists in 77 games last season.
This is the second time Ferguson has been signed as a free agent by the Oilers. He originally joined the organization in 1994, and was traded to Ottawa for defenceman Frank Musil in 1998 before being signed as a free agent by Anaheim. |
| July 1: | Center GERMAN TITOV signs a multi-year contract with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Titov, who was acquired at the trading deadline last season for center Josef Beranek, scored four assists in seven regular season games with the Oilers, and added a goal and an assist in five playoff games. |
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| June 30: | Oilers elect not to make
a qualifying offer to right winger ALEXANDER
SELIVANOV, who now becomes an unrestricted free agent. Despite
being the team's third-leading scorer with 27-20-47, the Oilers felt Selivanov's
inconsistent play was not worth the mandatory 10% raise on his $1.7 million
dollar contract that would have been required to keep his rights.
Other players who were not tendered qualifying offers by the Oilers included: Adam Copeland (RW), Boyd Devereaux (C), Mike Minard (G), Rob Murray (C) and Michel Picard (LW). |
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| June 25: | Oilers make their selections
in rounds three through nine of the NHL Entry Draft. The players
selected were:
The Oilers were to have a second pick in the ninth-round (279th overall), but elected to trade that selection to the Boston Bruins for a 2001 ninth-round draft pick. |
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| June 24: | Oilers trade defenceman
ROMAN
HAMRLIK to the New York Islanders for defenceman ERIC
BREWER, left winger JOSH
GREEN and a second round (35th overall)
draft pick. The Oilers used this pick to select University of Wisconsin
left winger BRAD
WINCHESTER.
Hamrlik has been the Oilers'
best defenceman for the past two seasons, but he was due for a new contract
this summer and would likely have demanded more than the team could afford.
Last season, Hamrlik scored 8-36-44 in 80 games with the Oilers, and added
one assist in five playoff games.
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| June 24: | Oilers select Russian winger
ALEXEI
MIKHNOV in the first round, 17th overall, of the NHL entry draft.
Mikhnov, 6-5, 194-pounds, played for RUS 2/Yaroslavl, scoring 24 goals
and 17 assists in 53 games. He has been compared to Nik Antropov
of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Oilers' other draft choices
in the first three rounds were:
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| June 23: | The Oilers lose a pair of
regular contributors in the NHL Expansion Draft. The Minnesota Wild
claimed center JIM
DOWD and the Columbus Blue Jackets picked up defenceman BERT
ROBERTSSON.
Dowd was a solid fourth-line player for the Oil last season, scoring 5-18-23 in 69 regular season games, and 2-1-3 in five playoff games. The versatile Robertsson played both a forward and defence position and saw action in 52 regular season games and all five playoff matches. He chipped in with 0-4-4 during the season and was scoreless in the playoffs. |
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| June 22: | Oilers announce that CRAIG MACTAVISH has been named as the eighth coach in the team's history. MacTavish, a former Oilers' captain, was an assistant coach with the team last year. He also worked for two years as an assistant with the New York Rangers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 21: | SCOTT HOWSON, the General Manager of the Hamilton Bulldogs, is appointed as the Oilers' new assistant GM. Howson, who been with the Oilers' organization for over six years, will be responsible for all aspects of hockey administration, including player contracts and personnel decisions He will also continue running the Oilers' AHL farm team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 15: | CAL NICHOLS is named as the new Oilers' Governor. General Manager Kevin Lowe and with Edmonton Investors Group director Gordon Buchanan have been named as Alternate Governors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 13: | Oilers announce that center BOYD DEVEREAUX has been left unprotected for the June 23 NHL expansion draft after he indicated that he is considering retirement. Devereaux suffered a concussion in a game April 1 and missed the rest of the season and the playoffs. Devereaux plans to consult with several physicians over the summer before making a decision on his future. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 13: | Oilers release their list
of protected players for the June 23 NHL expansion draft. The Oilers
will lose two players when the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild
fill out their rosters.
Protected Players: Forwards: Mike Grier, Bill Guerin, Chad Kilger, Georges Laraque, Todd Marchant, Ethan Moreau, Rem Murray, Ryan Smyth, Doug Weight Defencemen: Sean Brown, Roman Hamrlik, Janne Niinimaa, Jason Smith, Igor Ulanov Goaltender: Tommy Salo Unprotected Players: Forwards: Kevin Brown, Jozef Cierny, Patrick Cote, Boyd Devereaux, Jim Dowd, Ralph Intranuovo, Dan Lacouture, Rob Murray, Michel Picard, Martin Reichel, Keijo Sailynoja, Alexander Selivanov, Jussi Tarvainen, German Titov, Alexander Volchkov, Vladimir Vorobiev Defencemen: Adam Bennett, Brett Hauer, Frantisek Musil, Alain Nasreddine,Sami Nuutinen, Bert Robertsson, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Alexander Zhurik, Lukas Zib Goaltenders: Mike Minard, Bill Ranford, Kay Whitmore |
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| June 12: | In his first trade as Oilers'
General Manager, Kevin Lowe acquires left winger PATRICK
COTE from the Nashville Predators in exchange for a fifth-round
pick in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. The The 6'3", 200 lb. Cote had
no points and 70 PIM in 37 games last season before undergoing hand surgery
February 24. Cote totalled 1-2-3 and 242 PIM in the 1998-1999 season.
The fifth-round pick the Oilers are giving up originally belonged to Phoenix, and was obtained in the trade for goaltender Mikhail Shtalenkov. |
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| June 9: | Oilers name KEVIN LOWE as the team's new General Manager. Lowe signed a four-year contract that will carry through to the end of the 2003-04 season. Lowe indicated he will be stepping down as the team's head coach, and it is widely speculated that assistant coach Craig MacTavish will be offered that position. The Oilers have also yet to name a new president. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 7: | Oilers
announce that head coach KEVIN
LOWE submitted his resignation to the
team on June 5. This triggers a clause in Lowe's contract which permits
him to explore other opportunities, but only after 14 days from the time
he submitted his resignation.
The Oilers indicated that negotiations with Lowe to take over the team's vacant General Manager position are continuing, and both sides have said they would like to reach a decision by the end of this week. |
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| June 1: | Former Oiler General Manager GLEN SATHER signs a multi-year contract to become the new President and General Manager of the New York Rangers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but varying reports had the package ranging between $12 and $15 million and running between three and five years. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 1: | Oilers announce the team has reached the 13,000 season ticket mark and has qualified for the National Hockey League Canadian currency equalization program. The Oilers had sold 13,109 season tickets as of the midnight May 31 deadline. This marks the fifth consecutive year the team has exceeded the 13,000 season ticket plateau. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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