SUNRISE, FL – Clatty against the Cats.

Forward Connor Clattenburg will make his NHL debut on Saturday night and play alongside David Tomasek and Mattias Janmark on the fourth line when the Edmonton Oilers close out their seven-game road trip with a Stanley Cup Final rematch against the Florida Panthers at Amerant Bank Arena.

The 20-year-old received his first NHL call-up on Friday after recording a goal, an assist and 59 penalty minutes with a minus-5 rating in 15 games for the AHL’s Bakersfield Condors this season, having already made an impression on Oilers management over three appearances during the preseason.

After being drafted in the fifth round (160th overall) by the Oilers at the 2024 NHL Draft, the 6-foot-2 and 205-pound product of Arnprior, ON was named captain of the OHL’s Flint Firebirds and finished with 16 goals, 19 assists and 108 penalty minutes in 46 games during the 2024-25 season.

With Clattenburg’s arrival, the Oilers will revert to using 12 forwards and six defencemen, with Jake Walman not on the ice for Saturday’s morning skate at Baptist Health IcePlex due to an apparent injury he suffered during the first period of Thursday’s 2-1 overtime loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The 29-year-old blueliner received a heavy hit from 6-foot-9 forward Curtis Douglas that temporarily took him out of the game before he returned after a few shifts, but he didn’t play again after the five-minute mark of the second period.

Up front, the Oilers will deploy the same top-nine forwards they used against the Washington Capitals in a 7-4 defeat back on Wednesday in their fifth game of their current seven-game road trip and the first of back-to-back games earlier this week.

Matt Savoie and Jack Roslovic will flank Connor McDavid on the top line, while Leon Draisaitl will be between regular linemate Vasily Podkolzin and Andrew Mangiapane, who has two assists in his last three games after being pointless in his previous five appearances.

Forward Trent Frederic, who’s fresh off scoring his first goal in 19 games and Edmonton’s lone tally against the Lightning, will join Adam Henrique and Zach Hyman on the third line based on this morning’s pre-game skate.

Goaltender Stuart Skinner will start on Saturday after Calvin Pickard played brilliantly with 33 saves on Thursday in Tampa.

More to follow.