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Oilers Prospect Update: Floating on a McLeod

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By Nation Dan
Apr 12, 2021, 17:00 EDTUpdated: Apr 12, 2021, 16:52 EDT
This week’s prospect update features Ryan McLeod who had himself a week with a huge game against the King’s farm squad, the Reign. An assist that paired up with a hat-trick that included a shorthanded goal (see below) and the overtime winner.
The Condors again lived up to the billing I gave them last week, being streaky as the proceed to rattle off three straight wins. This is slowly going to become a Condors update as we near the end of most seasons of the rest.
Fitting the Condors figure prominently as the entire organization took it’s time this year, on the one year anniversary of losing Caver, the Condors also remembered:
Have another prospect you want to read about? Scroll on down and thanks for reading!
Side note for those of you who are reading the update for the first time.
While it’s a prospect update, not all players are specifically prospects in the traditional sense of the word. Some are merely players of which we own the rights to, and some are older players who I think people would like to follow along with.
Updates are current as to the time of publish (if they’re playing in a game when it’s published, I won’t include that)
AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Name (Active) | Pos. | GP | G | A | PTS | This week’s total | |
Tyler Benson | LW | 22 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 2 | 3GP 1-2-3 |
Adam Cracknell | R/C | 24 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 3GP 1-3-4 | |
Joseph Gambardella | C/L | 24 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 3GP 2-0-2 | |
Seth Griffith | C/R | 24 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 3GP 1-3-4 | |
Cooper Marody | C | 24 | 16 | 11 | 27 | 3GP 2-1-3 | |
Ryan McLeod | C | 24 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 3GP 3-1-4 | |
Alan Quine | C/W | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | OUT | |
Ostap Safin | L/R | 12 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1GP 0-0-0 | |
Raphael Lavoie | R/C | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3GP 1-1-2 | |
Phil Kemp | RD | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3GP 0-1-1 | |
Michael Kesselring | C | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3GP 0-0-0 | |
Theodor Lennstrom | LD | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2GP 0-1-1 | |
Markus Niemelainen | LD | 21 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2GP 0-0-0 |
Name (Active) | GP | GAA | SV% | Record | This Week’s Results | |
Olivier Rodrigue | 6 | 3.37 | .872 | 2-4-0 | 1 Start, 5-4OTW w/ 28 saves | |
Stuart Skinner | 19 | 2.40 | .913 | 12-5-2 | 2 Starts, 5-3W w/ 28 saves and 4-1W w/ 21 saves |
Players Notes/Articles/Highlights –
📽️HIGHLIGHT: @J_gambardella5 puts us up 2-1 in the second! #Condorstown
Raphael Lavoie was taken 38th overall by the @EdmontonOilers in 2019 and tonight, his first in @TheAHL. #Condorstown
🎥HIGHLIGHT: McLeod with the🚀down the wing shorthanded. #Condorstown
EUROPE (Active)
For players who are now in North America, click here to see what they had for stats
Name (Active) | Pos. | GP | G | A | PTS | This week’s total | |
Maxim Beryozkin – Lokomotiv Yaroslav (KHL (Russia)) | W | 31 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
Loko Yaroslavl (MHL (Russia)) | 25 | 13 | 17 | 30 | |||
@Matej Blumel – HC Dynamo Pardubice (Czech) | RW | 49 | 17 | 15 | 32 | ||
@Maxim Denezhkin – Buran Voronezh (VHL (Russia)) | C | 34 | 7 | 15 | 22 | ||
Loko Yaroslav (MHL (Russia)) | 18 | 2 | 7 | 9 | |||
Lokomotiv Yaroslav (KHL (Russia)) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
@Raphael Lavoie – Vasby IK (HockeyAllsvenskan (Sweden)) | C/R | 51 | 23 | 22 | 45 | ||
Jeremias Lindewall – MODO Hockey (HockeyAllsvenskan (Sweden)) | LW | 36 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
MODO Hockey J20 (J20 Nationell) | 8 | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||
Ornskoldsvik HF (HockeyEttan (Sweden)) | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
Kirill Maximov – CSKA Moskva (KHL (Russia)) | RW | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
Zvezda Moskva (VHL) | 25 | 12 | 15 | 27 | |||
@Tomas Mazura – HIFK U20 (U20 SM-sarja (Finland)) | C | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
@Aapeli Rasanen – KalPa (Liiga (Finland)) | C | 57 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 2GP 0-0-0 | |
@Patrik Siikanen – JYP (Liiga (Finland)) | L/C | 33 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2GP 0-1-1 | |
@Anton Slepyshev – CSKA Moskva (KHL (Russia)) | L/R | 35 | 12 | 14 | 26 | ||
Tyler Tullio – HK 32 Liptovsky Mikulas (Tipos Extraliga (Slovakia)) | C/R | 19 | 4 | 9 | 13 | ||
@Bogdan Yakimov – SKA St. Petersburg (KHL (Russia)) | C | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
@Filip Berglund – Linkoping HC (SHL (Sweden)) | RD | 32 | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||
@Philip Broberg – Skelleftea AIK (SHL (Sweden)) | LD | 44 | 3 | 10 | 13 | ||
@Philip Kemp – Vasby IK (HockeyAllsvenskan (Sweden)) | RD | 32 | 3 | 7 | 10 | ||
@Dmitri Samorukov – CSKA Moskva (KHL (Russia)) | LD | 48 | 2 | 6 | 8 | OUT FOR SEASON |
Goalies-
Name (Active) | GP | GAA | SV% | Record | This Week’s Results | |
@Ilya Konovalov – Yaroslav Lokomotiv (KHL (Russia)) | 19 | 2.29 | .923 | 9-7-2 |
Players Notes/Articles/Highlights –
America (NCAA, USHS-Prep, Etc.)
Name (Active) | Pos. | GP | G | A | PTS | This week’s total | |
Skyler Brind’Amour – Quinnipiac U. (NCAA) | C | 29 | 2 | 9 | 11 | ||
Filip Engaras – U. of New Hampshire (NCAA) | C | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | ||
Dylan Holloway – U. of Wisconsin (NCAA) | C/L | 23 | 11 | 24 | 35 | ||
Carter Savoie – U of Denver (NCAA) | LW | 24 | 13 | 7 | 20 | ||
Matt Cairns – U of Minnesota-Duluth (NCAA) | LD | 27 | 0 | 6 | 6 | ||
@Michael Kesselring – Northeastern U. (NCAA) | C | 20 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Players Notes/Articles/Highlights –
WORLD JUNIORS
Name (Active) | Pos. | GP | G | A | PTS | This week’s total | |
Dylan Holloway – Canada | C/LW | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
Philip Broberg (C) – Sweden | RD | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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From an indigenous perspective this has been told to me to be like the boat and canoe floating down the same river, together but not in conflict. This design is taking my indigenous artistic practice and blending it with the ON logo. As indigenous people much of our culture is based on the concept of the circle and the balance that it represents (depicted within the ON logo). The syllabic art within the hand is inspired by Cree traditional tattoos and in syllabics is the name of this beautiful territory as my nation (Nehiyaw/Cree) would write it “Amiskwaciwâskahikan”. Syllabic form is the proper way for writing our language.
Amiskwaciwâskahikan translates to “beaver mountain house” and the territory we all live on was a common meeting place of many indigneous nations”. – Dusty
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Thank you, as always for reading. Let me know in the comments below what player you’re watching for the most. Who has shocked you so far?
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