We’ve got ourselves a mid-summer trade between the Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators.
According to TSN 1200 in Ottawa, the Oilers traded Xavier Bourgault and Jake Chiasson to the Sens for Roby Jarventie and a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
The Sens selected Jarventie with the 33rd overall pick in the 2020 NHL Draft following a season in which he scored 23 goals and 38 points in 36 games playing for Tampere in Finland’s second-highest professional league. He scored 14 goals and 25 points in 48 games for Tampere in Finland’s top league the following season and then travelled overseas to make his North American debut with the Belleville Senators of the AHL.
Jarventie scored 11 goals and 33 points in 70 games in his first AHL season in 2021-22 and also scored four goals and nine points in seven games for Finland in a Silver Medal-winning performance at the 2022 World Juniors. His 2022-23 season was limited because of injury but Jarventie was very effective when healthy, as he scored 16 goals and 30 points over 40 games for Belleville.
The Sens 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.”
Listed at 6-foot-2, 185 pounds, Jarventie is a big winger with good offensive skills and instincts. He’s produced at a solid clip at the AHL level and is a good bet to provide the Oilers with scoring depth and a cheap cost. Jarventie will turn 22 in August and is set to enter the third season of his entry-level contract in 2024-25.
Heading back to Ottawa are a pair of forwards the Oilers selected in the 2021 NHL Draft. Xavier Bourgault was Edmonton’s top selection that year at 22nd overall, a choice they made after trading down two spots with the Minnesota Wild to add an extra third-round pick, and Jake Chiasson was the team’s fourth-round selection.
Bourgault produced at a very high level in the QMJHL and had a solid rookie campaign in the AHL but regressed considerably in his sophomore season with the Bakersfield Condors in 2023-24. After scoring 13 goals and 34 points in 62 games as a rookie, Bourgault declined to eight goals and 20 points in 55 games and found himself falling down the depth chart in Bakersfield.
Chiasson suffered a shoulder injury at Oilers Development Camp shortly after being drafted and appeared in only 20 WHL games in 2021-22. He earned an entry-level contract following a 2022-23 season that saw him score 20 goals and 58 points between the Brandon Wheat Kings and Saskatoon Blades but had a difficult transition to the professional level. In 2023-24, Chiasson played in 68 games for the Fort Wayne Komets of the ECHL and scored nine goals and 20 points.
Though the Oilers are moving a former first-round pick and another prospect in this trade, it seems like they’re the team that’s getting the player who’s most likely to produce at the NHL level.
