EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers re-signed forward Connor Brown to a one-year contract worth US$1 million in a deal announced Monday by the team.
The 30-year-old from Toronto had four goals and eight assists in 71 regular-season games for the Oilers, but shone in the post-season.
Brown had two goals and four assists in 19 playoff games and led the team in short-handed points with three.
He scored short-handed in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final against the Florida Panthers, and became the third player in NHL history to record short-handed points in back-to-back Stanley Cup games.
The six-foot, 185-pound forward was a key cog in Edmonton’s stingy penalty-killing unit that allowed just four power-play goals for a 94.3 per cent success rate.
Brown signed as a free agent with Edmonton in July 2023. He’d missed most of the 2022-23 season with a knee injury.
He has a career 94 goals and 134 assists in 519 games with Toronto, Ottawa, Washington and Edmonton.
The Oilers also re-signed forward James Hamblin to a two-year, two-way contract and forward Noah Philp to a one-year, two-way deal.
Both contracts carry an annual average value of $775,000.
The five-foot-10, 185-pound Hamblin from Edmonton split this past season between the Oilers and their AHL affiliate in Bakersfield, Calif.
Hamblin, 25, had two goals and an assist averaging eight minutes 51 minutes per game in 31 games for the Oilers between November and January.
The centre scored four goals and had four assists in 13 games upon his return to Bakersfield in January. Hamblin was sidelined with an injury in March.
The six-foot-three, 198-pound Philp returns to the Oilers after taking the 2023-24 season off from hockey.
The 25-year-old from Canmore, Alta., originally signed with Edmonton in 2022 after scoring 20 goals and assisting on 18 others in 36 games at the University of Alberta.
Philp had 19 goals and 18 assists in 70 games for Bakersfield in 2022-23.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 1, 2024.
