After landing on the Bakersfield Condors’ opening day roster, it hasn’t been a smooth start to the 2025-26 season for Edmonton Oilers’ top defensive prospect Beau Akey.

In fact, he’s yet to even play in any of the Condors’ nine games so far this season as he’s worked his way back from injury.

But Akey has been cleared, Condors PR guy Ryan Holt posted Wednesday, and has since been assigned to the ECHL’s Fort Wayne Komets.

It’s been tough sledding for the 20-year-old since being drafted in the second round of the 2023 draft by the Oilers, suffering a season-ending shoulder injury 14 games into the 2023-24 season. He played in 52 of the OHL Barrie Colts’ 68 games last season, and another early season injury this year has set him back.

He’ll join a Komets team light on offensive defencemen, so there won’t be a lack of playing time. The Komets are visiting the Florida Everblades Wednesday night and will face them again on Friday and Saturday, but due to the way the league is scheduled, they won’t play again until the following weekend.

It’s unknown how long he’ll be with the Komets for, but at the very least it will provide him an opportunity to get his feet underneath him against some softer competition.

The Komets are off to a hot start this season, going 5-1 in their first six games sitting atop the Western Conference. That’s in part due to the tremendous goaltending they’ve received from Oilers prospects Samuel Jonsson and Nathaniel Day.

Jonsson has posted a 3-0 record, a 1.67 goals against average and a .932 save percentage, while Day has posted a 2-1 record, a 2.03 goals against average and a .909 save percentage.

Oilers prospects James Stefan, Jayden Grubbe and Brady Stonehouse have all been solid offensively to start the year, too. Stefan has posted four goals and five points, Grubbe a goal and five points and Stonehouse two goals and three points, all in six games.

Zach Laing is Oilersnation’s associate editor, senior columnist, and The Nation Network’s news director. He also makes up one-half of the Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report. He can be followed on X at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.