Oil Kings move another player from team that won WHL title as rebuild continues – Edmonton | 24CA News
An offseason of change has carried into the 2022-23 Western Hockey League marketing campaign for the Edmonton Oil Kings because the membership introduced Wednesday it has made yet one more roster transfer geared in the direction of the long run.
Defenceman Logan Dowhaniuk is the most recent Oil King to be traded after serving to Edmonton seize final season’s WHL championship. The 20-year-old has been despatched to the Moose Jaw Warriors in trade for 18-year-old ahead Nathan Pilling and a third-round draft choose in 2025.
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Dowhaniuk has a purpose and 9 assists in 24 video games to this point this season. Pilling has collected seven targets and three assists in 23 video games with the Warriors.
WHL profile picture on Edmonton Oil Kings participant Logan Dowhaniuk throughout a recreation in opposition to the Calgary Hitmen in Calgary on Sunday Nov. 3, 2019.
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“We are excited to add Nathan to our group of young forwards,” Oil Kings normal supervisor Kirt Hill mentioned in a publish on the staff’s web site. “He is an enormous ahead who strikes properly and may play in all conditions.
“He has great touch around the net and plays a solid 200-foot game with strong hockey sense.”
Pilling’s grandfather Gregg Pilling performed with the Oil Kings group from 1962 to 1964.
Hill acknowledged the function Dowhaniuk performed in final season’s success for the Oil Kings and thanked him for his time with Edmonton.
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“We watched Logan grow not only as player but a person over the course of his career here in Edmonton and he was a big part of the defence core that helped us capture the Ed Chynoweth Cup last season,” he mentioned.
“He will be missed by the staff and his peers, but we wish him all the best on his chase to capture another league title in Moose Jaw.”
Oil Kings unveil jerseys for 2022 Teddy Bear Toss Game
The Oil Kings’ subsequent residence recreation is that this weekend in opposition to the Red Deer Rebels.
Saturday’s night time’s tilt may even function the staff’s annual Teddy Bear Toss recreation and on Wednesday the staff unveiled the particular jerseys its gamers will put on for the matchup.
This yr’s Teddy Bear Toss jersey encompasses a bear sporting a crown on its head and has a fur design on the underside. In a video posted to the Oil Kings’ web site, ahead Rhett Melnyk famous “they’re kind of more of an ugly Christmas sweater style.”
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During Saturday’s recreation, the jerseys will grow to be out there in a silent public sale with the membership saying all web proceeds will go to 630 CHED Santas Anonymous, the Edmonton group that collects, types, packages and delivers toys to over 20,000 kids yearly.
The annual Teddy Bear Toss sees Oil Kings followers throw new or gently beloved bears onto the ice after the Oil Kings rating their first purpose of the sport. The bears then go to 630 CHED Santas Anonymous.
The Oil Kings additionally tweeted pictures of the bear jerseys on Wednesday.
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