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| SEPTEMBER, 2003 | |||||||||||||
| Date | Transaction | ||||||||||||
| Sept. 29 | Oilers re-sign
left-winger
Ethan
Moreau to a four-year, $5.3 million contract. The
deal,
whch will keep Moreau with the club until the end of the 2006-07
season,
will pay him $1.5 million this season, $1.3 million in the second and
third
years of the contract and $1.2 million in the final year.
Moreau scored 14-17-31 with 112 PIM in 78 games with Edmonton last season. |
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| Sept. 21 | Oilers make
their third
round of training camp cuts, reassigning four players.
ASSIGNED
TO TORONTO ROADRUNNERS:
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| Sept. 20 | Oilers make
their second
round of training camp cuts, reassigning 12 players.
ASSIGNED
TO TORONTO ROADRUNNERS:
RETURNED
TO JUNIOR:
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| Sept. 17 | Oilers
make their first round of training camp cuts, reassigning 20 players.
ASSIGNED
TO TORONTO ROADRUNNERS:
RETURNED
TO JUNIOR:
RELEASED:
DESIGNATED
FOR REASSIGNMENT:
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| Sept. 11 | Oilers
re-sign right winger Georges
Laraque to a three-year, $4.1 million contract and left-winger Ethan
Moreau to a one year, $1.6 million deal.
Laraque, who scored 6-7-13 with 110 PIM in 64 games last season, will earn $1.275 million this season, $1.4 million in 2004-05 and $1.425 million in 2005-06. Moreau, who still may sign a longer-term deal, scored 14-17-31 with 112 PIM in 78 games last year. |
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| Sept. 11 | Oilers sign left
winger
Brad
Winchester and center Joe
Cullen to undisclosed three-year contracts.
Winchester, the Oilers second round pick (35th overall) in 2000, scored 10-6-16 with 58 PIM in 38 games with the University of Wisconsin last season. Cullen, a seventh round pick (211th overall) in 2000, scored 20-15-35 with 36 PIM in 42 games with Colorado College last year. |
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| Sept. 2 | Oilers sign
center Peter
Sarno and left winger Jamie
Wright to two-year contracts.
Sarno, originally drafted by the Oilers in in the sixth round (141st overall) of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, played with the Espoo Blues in the Finnish Elite League last season, scoring 17-23-40 in 45 games. Wright, a fourth round pick (98th overall) of the Dallas Stars in 1994, split last season between the Calgary Flames and Philadelphia Flyers organizations. He finished the year with the Philadelphia Phantoms, where he scored 10-14-24 in 33 games. |
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| AUGUST, 2003 | |
| Date | Transaction |
| Aug. 21 | Oilers re-sign left-winger Fernando Pisani to a three-year, $2.035 million contract. Pisani will earn $600,000 the first year, then $655,000 and $780,000 in years two and three. Pisani joined the Oilers half-way through the season last year, and totalled 8-5-13 with 10 PIM in 35 games. |
| Aug. 21 | Oilers sign minor-league defenceman Dan Smith to an undisclosed one-year contract. Smith, originally drafted by the Colorado Avalanche in 1995, scored 1-14-15 with 53 PIM in 69 games with the AHL's Springfield Falcons last season. |
| Aug. 14 | Oilers re-sign left-winger Ryan Smyth two a two-year, $7 million contract, avoiding a salary arbitration hearing. Smyth will earn $3.45 million next season, and $3.55 million in 2004-05. Smyth was the Oilers' leading scorer last season with 27-34-61 in 66 games. |
| Aug. 11 | Oilers name Craig
Simpson assistant coach. Simpson, who will join Charlie Huddy
and Billy Moores on Craig MacTavish's staff, should add some
much-needed
offensive expertise to the defensive-minded coaching staff.
Simpson is sixth all-time on the Oilers' goal scoring charts with 185, and 10th in both assists (180) and points (365). He holds the distinction of being the last Oiler to register 50 goals in a season, accumulating 56 in 1987-88, the year he was acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins. His playing career was cut short after only 10 seasons as a result of a back injury he suffered in 1993. |
| Aug. 5 | Oilers re-sign
right winger
Michael
Henrich and defenceman Bobby
Allen to undisclosed one-year contracts.
Henrich started last season with the Hamilton Bulldogs before being loaned to Mora IK in the Swedish First Division and then finishing the season with the Hershey Bears. In 21 total AHL games, he was held to just one assist. Allen scored 1-12-13 with with 24 PIM in 56 games for the Hamilton Bulldogs last season, and added 0-5-5 in 23 playoff games. |
| JULY, 2003 | |
| Date | Transaction |
| July 31 | Oilers re-sign
centers Shawn
Horcoff and Marty
Reasoner and left-winger Raffi
Torres to undisclosed two-year contracts.
Horcoff scored 12-21-33 with 55 PIM in 78 games with Edmonton last year, while Reasoner totalled 11-20-31 with 28 PIM in 70 games. Torres, who was acquired in a trade with the New York Islanders late last season, scored 1-7-8 with 14 PIM in 11 games with the Hamilton Bulldogs last season. |
| July 29 | Oilers re-sign left-winger Brad Isbister to a one-year, $1.925 million contract. Isbister, who was acquired in a trade with the New York Islanders late last season, scored 3-2-5 with 9 PIM In 13 games with the Oilers last season. |
| July 28 | Oilers re-sign defenceman Jason Smith to a one-year, $2.3 million contract. Smith scored 4-8-12 with 64 PIM in 68 games with Edmonton last season |
| July 28 | Oilers re-sign minor-league center Chad Hinz to a one-year contract. Hinz scored 12-12-24 with 26 PIM in 65 games with the Hamilton Bulldogs least year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. |
| July 15 | Oilers sign free
agent defenceman
Rocky
Thompson to a two-year contract and goaltender Stephen
Valiquette to a one-year deal.
Thompson scored 1-11-12 with 275 PIM in 79 games with the AHL San Antonio Rampage last year. Thompson, a third round pick (72nd overall) of the Calgary Flames in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, has played a total of 25 NHL games with Calgary and Florida. Valiquette was 15-14-3 with a 2.63 GAA and two shutouts with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in 2002-03. An 8th round pick (190th overall) of the Los Angeles Kings in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, Valiquette has played two NHL games. |
| July 15 | Oilers name Geoff Ward head coach of the Toronto Roadrunners. |
| July 3 | Oilers announce
the signings
of three minor-league defencemen. Jan
Horacek and Mikko
Luoma have signed one year contracts, while Mathieu
Roy has inked a three year pact.
Horacek, who was obtained by the Oilers in July of 2001 from the St. Louis Blues, spent the 2002-03 season in his native Czech Republic, where he scored 1-5-6 with 114 PIM in 39 games with four teams. Luoma, selected by the Oilers in the sixth round (181st overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, scored 4-13-17 with 52 PIM in 52 games with Tappara Tampere last season, and added 2-1-3 in 14 post-season games. Roy, the Oilers' seventh round pick (215th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, scored 11-21-32 with 164 PIM in 52 games for the QMJHL’s Val-d’Or Foreurs last season. |
| June 2 | Oilers re-sign assistant coaches Charlie Huddy and Bill Moores to three-year contracts through the 2005-06 NHL season. Along with head coach Craig MacTavish, the coaching staff has a record of 113-82-35-16 over the past three seasons. |
| JUNE, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| June 30 | Oilers sign defenceman Cory Cross to a three-year, $3.3 million contract. The deal, which also includes an option for a fourth year, prevents Cross from becoming an unrestricted free agent. Cross was acquired at the trade deadline last season and scored 2-3-5 with 8 PIM in 11 games. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 30 | Oilers buy-out the remaining year of the contract of left winger Daniel Cleary. The Oilers are on the hook for $366,000 of the $1.1 million Cleary was slated to make next season. Cleary, who scored 4-13-17 in 57 games last year, was a scratch in 17 of the Oilers' final 21 games and didn't dress in the playoffs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 30 | Oilers trade
goaltender
Jussi
Markkanen and a conditional draft pick to the New York
Rangers
in exchange for the rights to defenceman Brian
Leetch.
Markkanen had a record of 7-8-3 with a 2.59 goals-against average, a .904 save percentage and three shutouts in 22 games for the Oilers in last year. His departure opens the door for Ty Conklin to backup Tommy Salo next season. The Oilers are unlikely to make any attempt to sign Leetch, who becomes an unrestricted free agent, and will instead receive a compensatory draft pick from the team that signs him. |
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| June 22 | Oilers make
their selections
in rounds four through nine at the NHL entry draft.
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| June 21 | Oilers select
center Marc-Antoine
Pouliot in the first round, 22nd overall, of the NHL entry
draft.
Pouiliot, 6-1, 188-pounds, played for the Rimouski Oceanic of the
QMJHL,
scoring 32-41-73 with 100 PIM in 65 games.
The Oilers' other
draft choices
in the first three rounds were:
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| June 21 | Oilers trade their 2003 first round draft pick (17th overall) to New Jersey for the Devils' first round (22nd overall) and second round (68th overall) selections. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| June 11 | Oilers re-sign coach Craig MacTavish to a three-year contract through the 2005-06 NHL season. MacTavish has a record of 115-82-35-16 in his three seasons as Oilers' coach. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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