{"id":545007,"date":"2026-04-07T05:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T05:48:20","slug":"oswald-pattersson-pinchuk-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545007\/","title":{"rendered":"Oswald, Pattersson, Pinchuk \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers are again looking overseas to bolster their forward core. According to Frank Seravalli of Victory+<\/a>, the Oilers are the betting favorites to land forward Veit Oswald<\/a> this summer, despite other teams having interest.<\/p>\n

Oswald, 21, has spent the last several years playing for the DEL\u2019s EHC M\u00fcnchen. He wasn\u2019t on most people\u2019s radar a few years ago, scoring 10 goals and 17 points in 38 games. He was included on Team Germany\u2019s U20 team for the 2023-24 IIHF World Junior Championship, where he scored three goals and five points in four games. Oswald\u2019s output was decent for the tournament, but his 27 PIMs caused too much negative attention for any additional interest.<\/p>\n

However, he broke out in a big way this year. Oswald finished the 2025-26 campaign with 12 goals and 26 points in 38 games with a +16 rating, adding another two goals in six postseason contests. Although he didn\u2019t challenge for any scoring leaders, he continues to improve on both sides of the puck, making NHL teams more willing to afford him an opportunity in North America.<\/p>\n

Additional prospect notes:<\/p>\n

The AHL\u2019s Abbotsford Canucks announced<\/a> that the team has recalled forward Riley Patterson<\/a> from the OHL\u2019s Niagara IceDogs. Patterson, 20, was drafted 125th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2024 NHL Draft. He had an impressive 2025-26 season with the IceDogs, registering 40 goals and 84 points in 60 games. If he plays down the stretch for Abbotsford, it will be the first professional contest of his career.
\nA few weeks ago, reports<\/a> indicated that nearly the entire league had shown an interest in forward Vitali Pinchuk<\/a>, who scored 31 goals and 66 points in 65 games as a 24-year-old for the KHL\u2019s Dinamo Minsk this season. Unsurprisingly, Anthony Di Marco of the Daily Faceoff shared<\/a> that the Philadelphia Flyers are one of the 29 teams to have contacted Pinchuk about playing in North America next season. Pinchuk hasn\u2019t played in North America since the 2019-20 campaign, when he appeared in 54 games for the OHL\u2019s Kitchener Rangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers are again looking overseas to bolster their forward core. According to Frank Seravalli of Victory+,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[9027,198,146,5300,5,2359,4,24,56,11845,27,62090,42342],"class_list":{"0":"post-545007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-del","9":"tag-edmonton","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers","11":"tag-edmontonoilers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-khl","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-oilers","16":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","17":"tag-riley-patterson","18":"tag-vancouver-canucks","19":"tag-veit-oswald","20":"tag-vitali-pinchuk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361855385291863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}