Edmonton Oilers announce training camp details
By Zach Laing
2 years agoGet ready, Oilers fans — hockey season is right around the corner.
The club announced Thursday that its main training camp will kick off on Sept. 22, with the rookie camp kicking off on the 15th of September.
The Oilers have 28 players coming to rookie camp which will open on Sept. 15 with medicals and fitness testing before on-ice work begins.
Of those 28 players, 18 of whom were Oilers draft picks. The club announced five players will attend camp on invites: defenceman Simon Kubicek and Yanni Kaldis and forwards Dino Kambietz, Bady Burns, and Josh Prokop.
Other notable names like Dylan Holloway, Phillip Broberg, Raphael Lavoie, Ilya Konovalov, and most recent first-round pick Xavier Bourgault, amongst others, will be in attendance.
A select number of players at the rookie camp will be invited to attend the main camp.
Here’s the full list of players:
Goaltenders – 3
- Ilya Konovalov
- Olivier Rodrigue
- Ethan Kruger
Defencemen – 9
- Phillip Kemp
- Dmitri Samorukov
- Simon Kubicek
- Markus Niemelainen
- Filip Berglund
- Michael Kesselring
- Philip Broberg
- Max Wanner
- Yanni Kaldis
Forwards – 16
- Dylan Holloway
- Matvei Petrov
- Dino Kambeitz
- Henry Rybinski
- Drew Englot
- Brady Burns
- Josh Prokop
- Tim Soderlund
- Devin Brosseau
- Xavier Bourgault
- James Hamblin
- Ostap Safin
- Jake Chiasson
- Raphael Lavoie
- Tyler Tullio
- Kirill Maksimov
Zach Laing is the Nation Network’s news director and senior columnist. He can be followed on Twitter at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@oilersnation.com.
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