The Edmonton Oilers farmhand goalie joined Bakersfield Condor teammate Tyler Benson on the American Hockey League’s all-star second team and also signed a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000 in the National Hockey League, a reported raise of $125,000 to play in the minors. I’m pushing myself to get there,” said Starrett, who had organizational goalie coach Sylvain Rodrigue in Bakersfield all season. He gets to where you score goals, 51 this year (102 points) on a Hamilton team that wasn’t that strong,” said Button. It’ll be the third Oilers defensive coach in the last three years — Jim Johnson, Trent Yawney and Mr. X.Playfair was 20th player taken in the 1982 draft. jmatheson@postmedia.comOil Spills podcast: New Oilers coach will make only so much of a differenceHockey beat writer Rob Tychkowski joins host Craig Ellingson to talk about the Edmonton Oilers hiring Dave Tippett as the NHL team’s head coach.

Source: National Post June 05, 2019 09:00 UTC