Edmonton Oilers keep Taylor Hall on board with seven-year contract extension -NHL Update
Taylor Hall, the Edmonton Oilers top draft pick of the 2010 National Hockey League (NHL) Entry Draft, was signed on to a seven-year extension by the Canadian club on Wednesday, August 22, 2012.
Keeping him on board for multiple years definitely shows that the Edmonton Oilers are interested in keeping the player on board and allowing him to develop into a top level player. According to official sources, the contract is worth a cool $42 million,
and has been signed by both stakeholders.
Hall certainly has much unexplored potential as the 20-year-old from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has put up 95 points (49 goals, 46 assists) in a total of 126 games played throughout with Edmonton Oilers in the past two seasons.
He is yet to perform in all 82-games and has averaged 60-plus a year at the moment with a collective plus-minus rating of minus-12 and 63 minutes in penalty time.
"When they said seven years I didn't blink," Hall said. "I'm comfortable being here for that long. I think by that time ... I hope we're a perennial threat. That's my main goal and my mindset when I signed the deal."
"You have to have complete belief in the player, and our organization obviously does," Oilers general manager, Steve Tambellini, said. "He just brings such a complete level to our organization. He grabs the rope and pulls everybody along."
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was brought on board with their first draft pick in 2011 while Nail Yakupov is the latest of the top picks in Edmonton’s third year of having the first say during the drafts. The trio has been boasted to have the potential of carrying
Edmonton Oilers forward for many years to come and next season should definitely be a demo of what spectators should anticipate in the future.
The rebuilding process of the Edmonton Oilers has been going on for many years now, and with Yakupov, for many, it seems like time has finally come when the struggling Canadian club will make leaps and bounds from where it ended last season, at the bottom
of the league.
Next season will be an exciting one, especially for the Stanley Cup thirsty Canadians, who just might get what they have been wishing for next hockey season.
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