The first goalie on our top 10 prospect list so far at Oil on Whyte with Samuel Jonsson at the No. 6 spot. The 22 year old Swedish netminder is slated to enter his second season in North America despite conflicting reports that suggested he may be leaving to return to his home country over the summer.
The Edmonton Oilers have made two more cuts to their training camp roster. Following Saturday’s game, the Oilers announced that Samuel Jonsson and Nathaniel Day were loaned to the Oilers’ American Hockey League team, the Bakersfield Condors.
In August, Bruce Curlock, one of the top Oilers prospect evaluators, told Oilers Now that he was concerned Samuel Jonsson might return to the SHL if Edmonton squeezed him out.
Coming in at #4 in the 2026 The Oil Rig Prospect Ranking is netminder Samuel Jonsson. The former fifth-round pick was ranked by all but one of our writers, and was mostly ranked in the three to six range this year.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Welcome to Oilersnation’s countdown of the top 20 prospects in the Edmonton Oilers system. Continuing with the top 20 in our prospect countdown is yet another goaltender in Samuel Jonsson.
It appears that rumours surrounding Samuel Jonsson’s return to Sweden were a false alarm. Last week, news spread online that the Edmonton Oilers‘ goalie prospect was headed back to his home country to play next season after spending 2025-26 with the ECHL’s Fort Wayne Komets.
The Edmonton Oilers’ decision to sign so many goalies to work in their system may have left one top prospect feeling neglected. Goaltending prospect Samuel Jonsson is reportedly returning to Sweden for the 2026-27 season, which may not be a major development concern, but it could raise another issue worth watching.
The Edmonton Oilers have needed goaltending for decades. They’ve had many different goalies, but none have panned out the way they’ve hoped. The organization has struggled to draft and develop them properly.
The ECHL has named Fort Wayne Komets Goaltender Samuel Jonsson as the ECHL Goaltender of the Week for February 16th-22nd. In three games last week against the Norfolk Admirals, Jonsson went 2-0, stopping 42 of the 44 shots he faced on the weekend.
This week, top Edmonton Oilers goaltending prospect Samuel Jonsson was named to the ECHL All-Star Game. Jonsson is currently in his first season with the Oilers’ ECHL affiliate, the Fort Wayne Komets.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
So I’m sure by now you’ve seen that the Oilers actually pulled the trigger on a Tristan Jarry trade with Pittsburgh, sending Stuart Skinner, Brett Kulak, and a 2029 second-round draft pick.
Back again with a weekly pipeline update. It was another busy weekend, and they won’t be slowing down anytime soon. Speaking of not slowing down, that’s exactly what Tommy Lafrenière is doing in the WHL right now, as he is up to 19 points in 17 games.
The cuts are coming now as the preseason moves along. Following a commanding 4–0 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday evening, the Edmonton Oilers made a few more cuts to the roster, bringing us even closer to an opening night roster.
Welcome to Oilersnation’s Top Prospect Countdown for Summer 2025. This list profiles players and goaltenders under 25 years old who have played fewer than 25 NHL games.
Welcome back to The Oil Rig Edmonton Oilers Prospect Rankings. At the #4 spot, we have goalie Samuel Jonsson. The Swedish AllSvenskan’s Goalie of the Year took a massive step forward this year and looks like he could be the goalie of the future for this team.
With the Edmonton Oilers squarely focused on capturing a Stanley Cup now, their prospect pool has thinned out somewhat over the past few seasons. Nevertheless, they still have some key names to watch as the next era of this team will soon start to take shape.
The Edmonton Oilers continue to bolster their roster and pipeline ahead of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, signing two promising prospects while preparing for a familiar first-round opponent.
Might the Edmonton Oilers have their goaltender of the future? The team announced on Saturday morning that they’ve come to terms with Samuel Jonsson on a three-year entry-level contract.
The Edmonton Oilers goaltending has been seriously unreliable this season, but fans may have some hope for a new goalie in the organization as Samuel Jonsson has just won goalie of the year award.
The Edmonton Oilers have long struggled to produce any type of elite goalie, but they've got another chance with one emerging talent in Samuel Jonsson.