| JULY,
2007 |
| Date |
Transaction |
| July
26: |
Oilers sign Anaheim left
winger Dustin
Penner to a five-year, $21.25 million offer sheet. Anaheim now
has seven days to match the offer. Penner, 24, scored 29-16-45 with
58 PIM in 82 games with Anaheim last year, and added 3-5-8 with 2 PIM in
21 playoff games. In 101 NHL games, he has scored 33-19-52 with 72
PIM. |
| July
20: |
Oilers re-sign defenceman
Joni
Pitkanen to a one-year. $2.4 million contract, avoiding a salary arbitration
hearing that had been scheduled while he was a member of the Philadelphia
Flyers. Pitkanen scored 4-39-43 with 88 PIM in 77 games with the
Flyers last season. |
| July
17: |
Oilers sign right winger
Colin
McDonald to a two-year entry level contract and agree to one-year deals
with left winger Ryan
Flinn and defencemen T.J.
Kemp and T.J.
Reynolds.
McDonald, the Oilers' second
round pick (51st overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, scored 13-4-17 with
30 PIM in 36 games with Providence College of the NCAA last season.
Flinn, a fifth round pick
(143rd overall) of the New Jersey Devils in 1998, scored 2-4-6 with 166
PIM in 61 games with San Antonio of the AHL last season. He has also
played a total of 31 NHL games, scoring 1-0-1 with 84 PIM.
Kemp, who was never drafted,
scored 5-33-38 with 56 PIM in 65 games with Manchester of the AHL last
year. Reynolds, who also went undrafted, scored 0-1-1 with 93 PIM
in 42 games with Milwaukee of the AHL last season. |
| July
12: |
| Oilers sign unrestricted
free agent defenceman Sheldon
Souray to a five-year, $27 million contract. The deal will pay
him $6.5 million in each of the first two years, $5 million in year three
and $4.5 million in the fourth and fifth years. It also includes
a no movement clause for the first three years.
Souray was the third-highest
scoring defenceman in the NHL last year with 28-36-64 and 135 PIM in 81
games. He set an NHL record with 19 power play goals. In 506
career NHL games, he has scored 66-120-186 with 821 PIM. |
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Souray
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| July
6: |
Oilers sign Buffalo left
winger Thomas
Vanek to a seven-year, $50 million offer sheet. However, the
offer was quickly matched by the Sabres, who will retain Vanek's rights.
Vanek scored 43-41-84 with 40 PIM in 82 games with the Sabres last season. |
| July
5: |
Oilers obtain defenceman
Allan
Rourke and a 2008 third round draft pick from the New York Islanders
in exchange for a 2008 second round pick. Rourke, a journeyman AHL
player, has played just 42 NHL games over the past 10 seasons, scoring
1-4-5 with 26 PIM.
The third round pick that
the Oilers acquired in the trade is the pick that the team originally traded
to the Islanders along with Marc-Andre Bergeron at the trade deadline last
year. This could be significant because the Oilers will need to use
their own draft picks as compensation of they intend to try to sign a restricted
free agent from another team to an offer sheet. The offer sheet compensation
is as follows:
.
| Contract
Amount |
Compensation |
| $773,442
or below |
None |
| $773,442
- $1,171,882 |
Third-round
pick |
| $1,171,882
- $2,343,765 |
Second-round
pick |
| $2,343,765
- $3,515,647 |
First
and third-round picks |
| $3,515,647
- $4,687,530 |
First,
second and third-round picks |
| $4,687,530-$5,859,412 |
Two
first, one second and one third-round pick |
| $5,859,412
and up |
Four
first-round picks |
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| July
3: |
Oilers re-sign defenceman
Matt
Greene to a two-year, $2.3 million contract. Greene scored 1-9-10
with a team-leading 109 PIM in 78 games with the Oilers last season. |
| July
3: |
Oilers re-sign left winger
Raffi
Torres to a three-year, $6.75 million contract. Torres,
who will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of this new deal,
scored 15-19-34 with 88 PIM in 82 games with the Oilers last season. |
| July
3: |
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|
Garon
|
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Oilers sign unrestricted
free agent goaltender Mathieu
Garon to two-year contract worth a reported $1.2 million per season.
Garon, who was originally drafted in the 2nd round (44th overall) in 1996,
had a 13-10-6 record with a 2.66 GAA and two shutouts in 32 games with
the Los Angeles Kings last year. In 138 career games, he has compiled
a record of 60-56-12 with a 2.86 GAA, .903 save percentage and 10 shutouts. |
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| July
1: |
| Oilers obtain defenceman
Joni
Pitkanen, left winger Geoff
Sanderson and a 2009 third round draft pick from the Philadelphia Flyers
in exchange for defenceman Jason
Smith and right winger Joffrey
Lupul.
Pitkanen, who was selected
4th overall in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, scored 4-39-43 with 88 PIM in
77 games with the Flyers last season. In 206 career NHL games, he has scored
25-91-116 with 210 PIM.
Sanderson, a 16-year NHL
veteran, scored 11-18-29 with 44 PIM in 58 games last season. He
has scored 352-335-687 with 495 PIM in 1,063 games with Hartford, Carolina,
Vancouver, Buffalo, Columbus, Phoenix and Philadelphia.
Smith, the Oilers' captain,
scored 2-9-11 with 103 PIM in 82 games with Edmonton last year, while Lupul
scored 12-16-28 with 45 PIM in 81 games with Edmonton. |
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Pitkanen
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Sanderson
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| July
1: |
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|
Tarnstrom
|
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|
Grebeshkov
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Oilers sign defencemen Dick
Tarnstrom and Denis
Grebeshkov to one-year contracts.
Tarnstrom, an unrestricted
free agent, makes his return to Edmonton after a year with HC Lugano of
the Swiss League last season. Last season he scored 3-26-29 with
90 PIM in 44 regular season games and added 1-6-7 with 8 PIM in five playoff
games. In 258 career NHL games, Tarnstrom has scored 32-94-126 with
202 PIM.
Grebeshkov, a restricted
free agent who was acquired from the New York Islanders in exchange for
Marc-Andre Bergeron, played last season wtih Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the
Russian Super League. He scored 8-9-17 with 79 PIM in 47 regular season
games and added two assists and six PIM in seven playoff games. Originally
drafted by Los Angeles 18th overall in 2002, Grebeshkov has scored 0-6-6
with 20 PIM in 33 NHL games. |
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