Edmonton Oilers Prospects Roundup: A Bauer Berry for your blueline

Teams within the system are performing at all levels with the Edmonton Oilers second in their division, the Bakersfield Condors third in theirs, and the Fort Wayne Komets second in theirs. There are standout prospects across their pipeline, too, with Quinn Hutson in AHL rookie of the year conversations, and breakout years from Tommy Lafreniere and David Lewandowski.

Let’s take a look at everything within the Oilers system from this past week.

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 to go along with a feature one one standout prospect in Edmonton’s system. We have defined a prospect as a skater who has played fewer than 65 NHL games, and is born 2001 or earlier.

Bauer Berry, Defence, St. Thomas University, NCAA

Bauer Berry is the 2024 seventh-round, 218th overall selection for the Edmonton Oilers. He was drafted out of the Muskegon Lumberjacks, and was primarily known for his intense physicality, high compete level, and defensive shutdown ability.

Berry’s season so far

He played out his draft plus one season in the USHL, but has now made the jump to the NCAA with the University of St. Thomas for the 2025–26 season. In his freshman season, he’s posted a respectable two goals and seven assists across 27 games in limited ice time.

He’s largely served as a third pairing penalty killer for St. Thomas, as the USHL alumni adjusts to the speed and pace of play at the NCAA level. For the current campaign he averages 14:57 of TOI per game with 1:35 of that coming on the penalty kill.

In case the penalty kill time was not enough of an indicator, the 2005-born defender also starts 64% of all of his shifts in the defensive zone. Berry’s 0.27 errors leading to goals against is a positive indicator that his defensive senses, play anticipation, and habits have all been growing early into his NCAA career.

The seventh rounder is looking more and more defensively responsible with the puck as well, as he only has 4.2 give aways compared to his seven takeaways per game. This hints at good body positioning, leverage assertion, and defensive timing upside.

The Oilers prospect’s physicality has also adjusted well for being a first year player as Berry engages in eight puck battles a game and has won 53% of them, while also dishing out 0.50 hits a game, and taking 0.77 in return.

Berry also shows almost no physical hesitancy, higher play engagement, and defensive pressure exertion in his NCAA play so far.

The shutdown defender’s growth in senses, compete, and physicality, although early bodes well for his overall development. If he can add more mechanically sound skating, puck skills, and minor offensive instincts, he could be a reliable pro-level defenceman in the future.

Edmonton Oilers prospect updates

AHL

• The Condors had a rebound week, going 2–0–1 this past week. They first dropped a game against the Henderson Silver Knights 2–1 in OT on the 28th. Bakersfield then rebounded in a pair of games against Abbotsford 7–2 on the 30th, and 3–2 on the 31st.
• The Condors sit third in the AHL Pacific Division with a 24–12–7 record and 55 points.
• Quinn Hutson is now tied for seventh in AHL league scoring with 41 points. The goaltending in Bakersfield has also found a consistent rotation, leading to only five goals being allowed this past week combined.
• Goaltender Calvin Pickard was been placed on waivers on February 1 and is expected to clear.

ECHL

• The Fort Wayne Komets had a solid past week, going 2–1–0. They collected back-to-back 6–0 wins against the Cincinnati Cyclones on the 30th, and the Lake Tahoe Knight Monsters on the 31st. They did drop a follow-up game to the Knight Monsters on February 1, 6–2.
• Fort Wayne remains second in the ECHL’s Central Division with a 23–11–6 record. They sit four points behind Toledo for first.
• Oilers prospect forward, James Stefan, has now cracked a point per game, after posting a wild seven points across this week’s past three games. There’s never been any doubt the sniper can score at the professional level.
• Defenceman Alex Murray joined the Komets on January 30, which will give the club even more defensive depth.

Europe

• 2025 sixth-rounder Daniel Salonen posted his second shutout of the season in a 1–0 OTW against HPK on the 30th. He appeared in three games this past week, but has struggled with finding a consistent level of play.
• Forward Petr Hauser only played one game this past week, and he generated a quality assist in his game against Bili Tygri Liberec on the 27th, and even went +1 despite HC Vitkovice’s 6–2 loss.

NCAA

• The University of Michigan Oilers prospects Aidan Park and Asher Barnett played Ohio State on both the 30th and the 31st. Defensive stalwart, Barnett scored in the first game and went a +3 across both games due to solid defensive reads, positioning, and timing.
• In Dalyn Wakely’s single game against the University of Massachusetts, he had a two-assist night. The two-way forward looks to be adjusting nicely to the NCAA game this season.

OHL

• The high motor William Nicholl played in a game against North Bay on the 30th, and a second game against Erie on the 31st. In his second game of the week, Nicholl had a goal and an assist. The former seventh-rounder looks to be taking advantage of all the opportunities he is granted.

WHL

• Oilers 2025 fourth round forward, David Lewandowski, had a strong but busy week playing in four games and securing six points across those outings. He now enters this week on a four-game point streak as well. The physical power forward is certainly finding his scoring touch this year.
• Oilers 2025 third-round forward, Tommy Lafreniere, had a quieter week, only posting a single goal across his three games played.

Russia

• KHL defender, Nikita Yevseyev had just the second two point outing of his season on the 29th against Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg with a goal and an assist. The mobile puck mover also played a pair of games on January 31 and February 2against Barys Astana. His club is now on a three-game win-streak.

Forwards

Player	Position	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM	Team	League
Maxim Beryozkin	RW	49	5	16	21	0.43	12	Yaroslavl Lokomitiv	KHL
Samuel Poulin	W/C	42	12	17	29	0.69	24	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Isaac Howard	LW/RW	19	10	15	25	1.32	4	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Connor Clattenburg	LW	20	2	1	3	0.15	88	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Jayden Grubbe	C/RW	20	4	9	13	0.65	17	Fort Wayne Komets	ECHL
Petr Hauser	RW	36	3	6	9	0.25	14	HC Vitkovice	Czechia
Quinn Hutson	RW/LW	38	24	17	41	1.08	58	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Roby Järventie	LW/RW	37	14	15	29	0.78	20	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Tommy Lafreniere	RW/C	47	27	30	57	1.21	18	Kamloops Blazers	WHL
David Lewandowski	LW	39	12	33	45	1.15	28	Saskatoon Blades	WHL
Viljami Marjala	LW/C	43	12	27	39	0.91	12	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
William Nicholl	C/LW	12	4	6	10	0.83	4	London Knights	OHL
Aidan Park	C	26	8	5	13	0.50	24	University of Michigan	NCAA
Matvei Petrov	LW/RW	20	3	1	4	0.20	2	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Josh Samanski	C/LW	39	7	21	28	0.72	36	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
James Stefan	RW/LW	31	16	16	32	1.03	8	Fort Wayne Komets	ECHL
Brady Stonehouse	RW/LW	5	0	3	3	0.60	12	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Dalyn Wakely	C	26	5	10	15	0.58	22	UMass-Lowell	NCAA

Defence

Player	Position	GP	G	A	P	P/GP	PIM	Team	League
Beau Akey	RD	27	2	8	10	0.37	16	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Asher Barnett	LD	26	2	10	12	0.46	8	University of Michigan	NCAA
Bauer Berry	LD	27	2	7	9	0.33	14	University of St. Thomas	NCAA
Damien Carfagna	LD	37	5	7	12	0.32	14	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Paul Fischer	LD	22	5	11	16	0.73	37	University of Notre Dame	NCAA
Albin Sundin	RD	40	3	5	8	0.20	14	Timra IK	SHL
Nikita Yevseyev	LD	49	4	10	14	0.29	26	Amur Khabarovsk	KHL

Goaltenders

Player	GP	GAA	SV%	Record	SO	Team	League
Nathaniel Day	22	2.53	.896	12-6-4	3	Fort Wayne Komets	ECHL
Samuel Jonsson	16	2.47	.905	9-5-2	4	Fort Wayne Komets	ECHL
Connor Ungar	8	1.74	.949	7-1–0	1	Bakersfield Condors	AHL
Daniel Salonen	24	2.51	.879	10-7-5	2	Lukko	Liiga
Eemil Vinni	17	2.99	.884	8-5-4	1	JoKP	Mestis