We’ll have to wait to get our first look at new Edmonton Oilers prospect Roby Jarventie. According to Jason Gregor, the winger is dealing with a knee injury and won’t participate in the team’s training camp.
The Ottawa Senators selected Jarventie with the 33rd overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft. He scored 14 goals and 25 points over 48 games with Tampere in Finland’s top professional league in his post-draft season and travelled overseas to join the Belleville Senators after being eliminated from the Liiga playoffs. The Finn scored two goals and three points in four games in his AHL debut.
In his first full season in North America in 2021-22, Jarventie scored 11 goals and 33 points over 70 games with Belleville. The following year, Jarventie improved to 16 goals and 30 points in just 40 games as his season was shortened due to injury.
The Senators called up Jarventie to make his NHL debut in November of 2023 and he picked up an assist in seven games with Ottawa. Jarventie scored nine goals and 20 assists in 22 games after being sent down to the AHL but had his season come to a premature end as he was shut down in February to undergo knee surgery.
“It’s unfortunate for him,” Belleville head coach David Bell said at the time. “It’s just a nagging knee issue that they’ve tried to band-aid along the last couple of years, and it just got to the point where he needed to have surgery to get this thing completely fixed. It’ll be a long off-season for him, but hopefully he comes back the player that he was when he left.”
The Sens opted to move on from Jarventie this summer. Back in July, Edmonton and Ottawa agreed to a trade that sent Jarventie and a fourth-round pick to the Oilers and prospects Xavier Bourgault and Jake Chiasson to the Sens.
The injury to Jarventie would explain why the Oilers added winger Mike Hoffman to training camp on a professional tryout contract. The Oilers also have centre Jasper Weatherby at training camp because prospect Carl Berglund suffered an injury during rookie camp.
