On Monday (Oct. 21), the Edmonton Oilers introduced they’d signed their 2024 first-round draft choose, 18-year-old ahead Sam O’Reilly, to a three-year, entry-level contract. They’d made a commerce with the Philadelphia Flyers to amass the thirty second general choose within the draft, transferring as much as choose O’Reilly after a robust season within the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the London Knights.
SAM = SIGNED ✍️
The #Oilers have inked 2024 first-round draft choose Sam O’Reilly to a three-year, entry-level contract. https://t.co/xhdN7hyBD8
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) October 21, 2024
O’Reilly stands 6-foot-1, 183 kilos, and is a right-shot. Within the 2023-24 season, O’Reilly performed 68 video games with the Knights scoring 20 objectives and including 36 assists for 56 factors which comes out to a 0.82 points-per-game common. Regardless of some followers believing the Oilers reached in deciding on O’Reilly, his robust begin within the 2024-25 marketing campaign has silenced doubters. By means of their first seven video games, he has scored two objectives and added three assists for 5 factors, giving him 61 factors by means of 80 profession OHL video games.
Earlier than being returned to the Knights, O’Reilly performed on this 12 months’s Younger Stars Basic in Penticton, British Columbia, in addition to enjoying 4 preseason video games scoring one purpose. His robust two-way sport makes him one of many Oilers’ strongest prospects, and he’s monitoring to try to crack their roster throughout the subsequent few seasons.
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