Posts About "Iiro Pakarinen"

Barret Jackman and Mike Santorelli Retire, Oilers Suffer Injuries & More News

October 3rd, 2016 Former St. Louis Blues defenseman Barret Jackman will be retiring. It's been talked about a few times over the summer, but the Blues helped Jackman make it official Monday morning. The team has announced that they'll hold a press conference Tuesday to formally make the announcement. The 35-year-old was bought out over the summer...

Oilers Right Wing Depth Could Be Trouble for Pakarinen

September 13th, 2016 Depth on any hockey team means there are a number of suitable players who can take regular shifts, offer productive value and help the team. Until this summer, the Edmonton Oilers haven't effectively filled key positions with depth players, instead letting rookies and underdeveloped prospects take important shifts. For almost a decade,...

Oilers Sign Iiro Pakarinen to Extension

June 29th, 2016 It’s certainly not the biggest news of this year’s NHL offseason, but the Edmonton Oilers inked forward Iiro Pakarinen to a one-year, one-way contract worth $725,000, according to Oilers’ radio analyst Bob Stauffer. Originally a seventh-round draft pick (184th overall) of the Florida Panthers in 2011, Pakarinen signed with the...

Oilers: Iiro Pakarinen Making an Impact

January 29th, 2016 It is no secret that heading into training camp, Edmonton Oilers forward Iiro Pakarinen was nothing more than an afterthought in the mind of head coach Todd McLellan. While a guy like Anton Slepyshev made enough of an impression to start the year in Edmonton, Pakarinen was sent back to the AHL to wait his turn. Well, it may have taken a...

Who Is Iiro Pakarinen?

June 16th, 2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed Finnish forward Iiro Pakarinen to a two-year $1.63M ELC. The deal pays $70K in the AHL and an NHL cap hit of $817K. Pakarinen, 24, will become an RFA at the end of the deal in 2015-16. That said the Oilers fanbase is still curious as to who Pakarinen is as little is known of him in North America at the...