{"id":473263,"date":"2025-12-26T17:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473263\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T17:44:15","slug":"oilers-david-tomasek-to-terminate-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473263\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers, David Tomasek To Terminate Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:10 a.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>The Oilers officially announced<\/a> they\u2019ll be placing Tomasek on unconditional waivers on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>8:11 a.m.: <\/strong>Oilers forward\u00a0David Tomasek<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is expected to sign with the Swedish Hockey League\u2019s F\u00e4rjestad BK after the holiday roster freeze lifts on Sunday, Jonas Griberg and Johan Ekberg of V\u00e4rmlands Folkblad<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

Tomasek has already left Edmonton and returned to Sweden, according to the report. The Oilers can place Tomasek on unconditional waivers on Sunday, allowing him to formalize the termination and register a new contract with F\u00e4rjestad on Monday.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old right winger is ticketed to return to the squad where he had immense success over the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons before attempting to kickstart an NHL career by signing a one-year, $1.2MM deal with Edmonton<\/a> in April. He led the league in at least one major statistical category on both occasions and was named the SHL\u2019s Most Valuable Player last season with a 24-33\u201357 scoring line and +5 rating in 47 games.<\/p>\n

Tomasek was technically left off the Oilers\u2019 opening-night roster due to salary cap constraints, taking advantage of his waiver-exempt status to send him to AHL Bakersfield. However, he was recalled the next day and made his NHL debut on the fourth line with Adam Henrique<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Isaac Howard<\/a><\/strong>. He recorded an assist, but the lack of ice time wasn\u2019t conducive to his ability to make an impact on the scoresheet.<\/p>\n

The one-time World Championship gold medalist has good size at 6\u20192\u2033 and 210 lbs, but doesn\u2019t play a particularly physical game, profiling more as a one-way offensive threat and power play specialist. That made him an unnatural fit in a bottom-six checking role, serving the dual purpose of not allowing him to demonstrate enough skill to push his way into a top-nine job and see meaningful even-strength time with Connor McDavid<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Leon Draisaitl<\/a><\/strong>, or\u00a0Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tomasek will end his stint in Edmonton with three goals, two assists, and a -6 rating in 22 appearances, averaging 10:46 of ice time per game. He had been a healthy scratch in six straight contests, last appearing against the Maple Leafs on Dec. 13.<\/p>\n

The cap impacts are significant for the Oilers, who will be immediately relieved of his $1.2MM cap hit upon termination. Since they\u2019re dipping into their LTIR pool to stay cap-compliant, they\u2019re not accruing cap space. Removing Tomasek won\u2019t change that, but it will increase their current cap space from $612.5K to $1.81MM, giving them more flexibility to reinstate one of their four LTIR-bound players in Connor Clattenburg<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Kasperi Kapanen<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Noah Philp<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0Jake Walman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Image courtesy of Walter Tychnowicz-Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:10 a.m.:\u00a0The Oilers officially announced they\u2019ll be placing Tomasek on unconditional waivers on Sunday. 8:11 a.m.: Oilers forward\u00a0David…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[214655,2997,1649,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-473263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-david-tomasek","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-newsstand","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115787116361711484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}