Philip Broberg has signed a new contract with the Edmonton Oilers.

At least they don't have a Foote fetish

How can anyone dislike this signing...

Pretty standard deal. Still a good ways away from being NHL ready, not that that's ever stopped Edmonton before.

More like Bruhburg

Yessss

So this means he'll be in North America next season? Or can Oilers still loan him back to his Swedish men's team?

Still a little mad that the Oilers took Broberg over Soderstrom, York, and Harley their all better imo

1st round draft selection signed to his ELC!!

check, check and check!!

I liked the Bouchard pick last summer ... but I hope the Oilers did some serious research before picking Broberg ahead of offensive talents like:

Trevor Zegras
Vasily Podkolzin
Cole Caufield
Matthew Boldy
Alex Newhook
Peyton Krebs
Kirby Dach

And other defenders that were often ranked higher (and are arguably better):

Pick 08 = Phillip Broberg = 9 points in 44 games in Allsvenskan (Europe's 10th highest ranked league)
Pick 11 = Victor Söderström = 7 points in 44 games in the SHL (Europe's 2nd highest ranked league)
Pick 14 = Cam York
Pick 18 = Thomas Harley
Pick 19 = Lassi Thomson
Pick 20 = Ville Heinola = 18 points in 41 games in LIIGA (Europe's 3rd highest ranked league)
Pick 22 = Tobias Björnfot
Pick 84 = Mikko Kokkonen = 19 points in 56 games in LIIGA (Europe's 3rd highest ranked league)

It's also notable that LD is easily Edmonton's strongest position on the depth chart:

Osacar Klefbom
Dernell Nurse
Kris Russell
Brandon Manning
Dmitri Samorukov
William Lagesson
Caleb Jones
Keegan Lowe
Markus Niemeläinen
Matthew Cairns
Filip Berglund
Philip Broberg

I'd love to hear McDavid's honest opinion on this.

Edmonton didn't draft a winger until the 4th round this year ... last year they waited until the 7th.
I bet he's miffed that Edmonton hasn't prioritized his wingers ... especially after missing out on award season.
He could have have had some extremely talented line-mates as early as next season:

JOEL FARABEE - CONNOR MCDAVID - COLE CAUFIELD.

Yeah they should have drafted caufeild

Your comment just gave me 29 notifications ... and quoted my post 29 times lol

@Banks is this a glitch? I thought I quoted once

It definitely wasn't your doing.

I was probably editing my post while you were making the comment ... so it added an updated quote every time my changes autosaved.

I wanted caufield as well but I think the Bouchard pick can be justified

Did you mean the Broberg pick?

No because I wanted the Broberg pick to be Caulfield. I meant that I understood the Bouchard pick more than the Broberg pick

Those that voted no must have disliked the draft pick since should want to sign player unless VEgas wasting Gusev in playoffs only to get burned .

They drafted lavoie