Soli
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Confirmed with Link: Oilers sign Filip Berglund to a 2-year ELC
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Fourier
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Good!
Holland should pick defensemen with every pick this year and try to corner the market.
Holland should pick defensemen with every pick this year and try to corner the market.
Nostradumbass
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McDNicks17
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He just signed a two year deal with Linkoping over there. He could still come over if he wanted to though.
Matty reported that he was going to be playing in Sweden next season even with this contract, but not sure if that's just Matty being Matty.
McDNicks17
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Yup. Berglund seems promising.
He was playing seconding pairing minutes on Skelleftea(same team as Broberg) this year and put up 20 points in 52 games.
I'm not overly familiar with him, but stylistically, he seems like a right-handed Klefbom. Just a solid all-around defenseman with a plus shot.
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Jumptheshark
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Yes you can. This has happened a few times, like Persson two season ago
As I stated in another thread. The guys I know who follow the SHL closer than me have said they think Bergland will play in Sweden this fall
ohheyhemsky
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McDNicks17
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Yup. I think most of the leagues in the main IIHF countries have transfer agreements, so players can move freely between the NHL and their league, but NHL teams have to pay a transfer fee to that country's hockey program when they bring a player over.
Russia is the only one that doesn't, I believe. Players there have to buyout the rest of their contract if they're under contract and want to leave.
It's odd because I found an article from 6 days ago saying that he was signed so I wonder what took so long to announce it.
Anyway, happy to see this as I was worried that they wouldn't sign him. The little I watched of him, he can move around pretty well and has some good offensive instinct. He and Broberg actually looked pretty good as a pair from the few games I watched. Him being right handed is a nice bonus.
Anyway, happy to see this as I was worried that they wouldn't sign him. The little I watched of him, he can move around pretty well and has some good offensive instinct. He and Broberg actually looked pretty good as a pair from the few games I watched. Him being right handed is a nice bonus.
McDNicks17
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This just happened a few days ago (NHL extends player development agreements).
That might have been slowing things down.
McMozesmadness
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After I saw somebody post in the rumors thread that he was already signed, I scoured the internet and found this article from April 24th.
Oilers Sign Filip Berglund To Entry Level Deal
I don't know how legit that writer is but it turned out he was right and knew about it a week ago.
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CantHaveTkachev
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To me this is Holland just wanting to evaluate the prospects in the system further. Niemelainen was essentially written off I believe after he hasn’t overly progressed since his draft, Berglund has some upside but isn’t a must keep prospect either. I think Holland doesn’t want to run into another situation like Marino where he isn’t overly familiar with a prospect and they walk and succeed elsewhere. Even though Marino was probably going to walk for nothing anyways, I’d bet Holland wishes he got a better scouting report on him
Jumptheshark
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has it been confirmed? I know it was the rumour of on this side since the signing rumour broke earlier in the week
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