The Edmonton Oilers prospects saw a very average week. Most maintained their rate of pace, and nobody really stood out, unfortunately. The biggest development was Tyler Tullio making his season debut for the Bakersfield Condors in the AHL. With one assist in the game, he is the team leader in points per game.
Noel Hoefenmayer also had a solid game for the Condors this week, putting up two assists in a 6–4 Condors win. He continues to be steady in a second pairing role for the farm team.
Welcome to the TOR Edmonton Oilers prospect update. Each week, we’ll take a dive into how the Oilers’ prospects have done in their respective leagues. We have defined a prospect as a skater who has played fewer than 65 NHL games, and is younger than 25 years of age. All data is from EliteProspects. We also use an NHLe calculator built by Christian Roatis (@Croatis) which is used to estimate a player’s equivalent point total in the NHL based on how they are performing in their respective league. The calculator uses the difficulty of the given league combined with the ease at which a player puts up points to determine the NHLe.
Oilers Prospects Happenings
AHL
- Tyler Tullio played his first game of the year putting up one assist. He is the only Oilers prospect averaging at least one point per game outside of Max Copponi.
- Raphael Lavoie continues to chug along, now with nine points in 10 games.
- Xavier Bourgault continues to have mediocre numbers, now with seven points in 15 games.
- Olivier Rodrigue allowed three goals on 37 shots in shootout loss, which someone lowered his impressive stats this season.
- Not a prospect, but Jack Campbell is rocking a 3.28 GAA and .893 SV% in seven AHL games.
Europe
- Jeremias Lindewall played four more games in Sweden’s second best league, but did not put up any points this week.
- Samuel Jonsson continues to be quite mediocre in Sweden’s second and third best mens’ leagues.
Russia
- Maxim Beryozkin kept pace with one point in two additional KHL games, decent pace for a 22-year-old in the KHL.
- Nikita Yevseyev is hurt.
CHL
- Brady Stonehouse has the most points in any league for an Oilers prospect, but only has 21 points in 26 OHL games.
- Beau Akey played one game and had no points.
NCAA
- Matt Copponi played one game and didn’t score a point, but continues to be the best Oilers prospect by points per game with 16 points in 14 games.
- Tomas Mazura is two points off his NCAA career high in half the games.
NHLe Leaderboard
NHLe is a metric used to estimate a player’s offensive output at the NHL level from their point totals in their respective league. Here are the Oilers’ current top 5 (bracketed numbers denote movement from the previous week)
- Tyler Tullio: 39.9
- Matt Copponi: 36.7
- Raphael Lavoie: 35.9
- James Hamblin: 33.1
- Maxim Beryozkin: 29.0
Overall regular season totals for Oilers prospects
Forwards
| Player | Team | League | GP | G | A | P | +/- | NHLe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Berglund (C) | totals | 13 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | N/A | |
| Fort Wayne Komets | ECHL | 10 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | N/A | |
| Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13.2 | |
| Maxim Beryozkin (RW/LW) | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | KHL | 36 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 29.0 |
| Xavier Bourgault (C) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 15 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 18.7 |
| Jake Chiasson (C/RW) | Fort Wayne Komets | ECHL | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | N/A |
| Matt Copponi (C) | Merrimack College | NCAA | 14 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 36.7 |
| Maxim Denezhkin (C) | totals | 11 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 6 | N/A | |
| Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg | KHL | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 16.5 | |
| Gornyak-UGMK | VHL | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 31.2 | |
| Jayden Grubbe (C) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8.0 |
| James Hamblin (LW/C) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 33.1 |
| Shane Lachance (LW) | Boston Univ. | NCAA | 16 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 22.2 |
| Raphaël Lavoie (C/RW) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 10 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 35.9 |
| Jeremias Lindewall (RW/LW) | totals | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | N/A | |
| Kalmar HC | HockeyAllsvenskan | 16 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | N/A | |
| Brödernas/Väsby | HockeyEttan | – | – | – | – | – | N/A | |
| Tomas Mazura (C) | St. Lawrence Univ. | NCAA | 14 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 16.3 |
| Joel Määttä (C) | Univ. of Vermont | NCAA | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 5.8 |
| Matvei Petrov (RW/LW) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5.6 |
| Carter Savoie (LW) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 |
| Brady Stonehouse (RW) | Ottawa 67’s | OHL | 26 | 11 | 10 | 21 | 7 | 21.5 |
| Tyler Tullio (C/RW) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 39.9 |
Defence
| Player | Team | League | GP | G | A | P | NHLe |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beau Akey (D) | Barrie Colts | OHL | 14 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 17.0 |
| Philip Broberg (D) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 19.9 |
| Noel Hoefenmayer (D) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 11 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 21.9 |
| Phil Kemp (D) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 15 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8.0 |
| Luca Münzenberger (D) | Univ. of Vermont | NCAA | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Maximus Wanner (D) | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5.2 |
| Nikita Yevseyev (D) | totals | 37 | 2 | 7 | 9 | N/A | |
| Ak Bars Kazan | KHL | 19 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10.5 | |
| Bars Kazan | VHL | 18 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10.3 |
Goalies
| Player | Team | League | GP | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathaniel Day | Flint Firebirds | OHL | 22 | 3.7 | 0.872 |
| Olivier Rodrigue | Bakersfield Condors | AHL | 4 | 2.2 | 0.936 |
| Samuel Jonsson | totals | 7 | |||
| BIK Karlskoga | HockeyAllsvenskan | 3 | 3.75 | 0.884 | |
| Strömsbro IF | HockeyEttan | 4 | 4.12 | 0.854 |
Following the prospects
Staying up to date with the development of prospects is no easy task. Follow along throughout the season for the latest happenings in the entire Oilers’ development pipelines!
