ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues signed defenseman Philip Broberg and ahead Dylan Holloway to two-year contracts Tuesday after the Edmonton Oilers declined to match the provide sheets for the restricted free brokers.
Broberg signed for a complete of $9.16 million and Holloway $4.58 million. The Blues despatched second- and third-round picks to Edmonton.
The wage cap-strapped Oilers opted to not maintain their two youngest gamers even after clearing house by buying and selling veteran Cody Ceci to San Jose for youthful defenseman Ty Emberson earlier within the week. They’d every week to make the choice after St. Louis basic supervisor Doug Armstrong made the daring strikes of signing Broberg and Holloway to the provide sheets — one thing that has develop into more and more uncommon across the NHL over the previous decade.
The final time a participant signed a suggestion sheet was Jesperi Kotkaniemi in 2021 with Carolina, two years after Montreal tried to amass Sebastian Aho from the Hurricanes with the identical methodology. Earlier than Broberg, Holloway and Kotkaniemi, the final provide sheet not matched was Dustin Penner in 2007.
Broberg, 23, was one of many Oilers’ finest gamers late of their run to Recreation 7 of the Stanley Cup Last, thriving after coming into the lineup throughout the Western Convention closing. Holloway, 22, scored 5 objectives throughout the playoffs. Not bringing them again is a raffle by new GM Stan Bowman, who’s tasked with attempting to assist Edmonton win all of it in his return from a league suspension for the way he dealt with the 2010 Blackhawks sexual assault allegations when he was in cost in Chicago.
