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 one more roster transfer geared in direction of the long run.
Defenceman Logan Dowhaniuk is the newest 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 change for 18-year-old ahead Nathan Pilling and a third-round draft decide in 2025.
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Dowhaniuk has a aim and 9 assists in 24 video games to this point this season. Pilling has gathered seven targets and three assists in 23 video games with the Warriors.
WHL profile photograph on Edmonton Oil Kings participant Logan Dowhaniuk throughout a sport towards the Calgary Hitmen in Calgary on Sunday Nov. 3, 2019.
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“We’re excited so as to add Nathan to our group of younger forwards,” Oil Kings normal supervisor Kirt Hill mentioned in a submit on the group’s web site. “He’s a giant ahead who strikes effectively and may play in all conditions.
“He has nice contact across the web and performs a stable 200-foot sport with sturdy 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 develop not solely as participant however an individual over the course of his profession right here in Edmonton and he was a giant a part of the defence core that helped us seize the Ed Chynoweth Cup final season,” he mentioned.
“He can be missed by the workers and his friends, however we want him all the perfect on his chase to seize one other league title in Moose Jaw.”
Oil Kings unveil jerseys for 2022 Teddy Bear Toss Recreation
The Oil Kings’ subsequent dwelling sport is that this weekend towards the Crimson Deer Rebels.
Saturday’s evening’s tilt may also function the group’s annual Teddy Bear Toss sport and on Wednesday the group unveiled the particular jerseys its gamers will put on for the matchup.
This 12 months’s Teddy Bear Toss jersey encompasses a bear carrying 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 type of extra of an unpleasant Christmas sweater type.”
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Throughout Saturday’s sport, the jerseys will change into accessible in a silent public sale with the membership saying all web proceeds will go to 630 CHED Santas Nameless, 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 cherished bears onto the ice after the Oil Kings rating their first aim of the sport. The bears then go to 630 CHED Santas Nameless.
The Oil Kings additionally tweeted pictures of the bear jerseys on Wednesday.
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