{"id":87532,"date":"2020-11-01T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=87532"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:23:51","slug":"edmonton-oilers-sign-dominik-kahun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/11\/01\/edmonton-oilers-sign-dominik-kahun\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Edmonton Oilers to Sign Dominik Kahun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/oilers\/\" target=\"_self\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> are expected to sign free-agent forward <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/kahundo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominik Kahun<\/a><\/strong> to a one-year contract worth $975,000. This contract carries him through the 2020-21 season. The news was initially reported from a german website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eishockeynews.de\/aktuell\/artikel\/2020\/11\/01\/nationalspieler-dominik-kahun-wechselt-von-den-buffalo-sabres-zu-den-edmonton-oilers-und-erhaelt-einen-einjahresvertrag\/71a34d5d-2a39-4224-bfcd-804fff62915c.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eishockeynews.de<\/a> and confirmed by Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kahun deal in EDM will be one-year, $975K<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1323086478453444609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Dominik Kahun to Sign with the Edmonton Oilers<\/h2>\n<p>Over his two-year NHL career, Kahun has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/blackhawks\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/penguins\/\" target=\"_self\"> Pittsburgh Penguins <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/sabres\/\" target=\"_self\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. He has put up 25 goals and 43 assists for 68 career points in 138 career games. Chicago<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/05\/24\/dominik-kahun-signs-chicago-blackhawks\/\" target=\"_self\"> signed him<\/a> as an undrafted free agent after his time with EHC Red Bull M\u00fcnchen of the German Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he scored 12 goals and 19 assists for 31 points in 56 games. He also added eight penalty minutes for the 2019-20 season. His possession numbers were 50.0 percent Corsi and a relative Corsi of -1.6.<\/p>\n<p>Kahun suffered a concussion in January of this year that limited his time with the Penguins. The Plana, Czech Republic native was traded to Buffalo at the deadline for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/shearco01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conor Sheary<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodriev01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evan Rodrigues<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;s the second trade of his career after he got sent to Pittsburgh from Chicago for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/maattol01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olli Maatta<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>Kahun became an unrestricted free agent after the Buffalo Sabres elected not to qualify him. All to the benefit of the Oilers.\u00a0The Czech forward has double-digit goals in his two full seasons in the league and is a decent playmaker with skill. He is versatile and can play all three forward spots in the lineup. However, he is a bit undersized and might not be the strongest player.<\/p>\n<p>He is a good middle-six forward that can offer some scoring potential. He is doing a better job trying to acquaint himself with the size of the North American ice sheet. The addition of Kahun to go along with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/turriky01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Turris<\/a><\/strong>, as well as the return of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/puljuje01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Puljujarvi<\/a><\/strong>, should give the Oilers some much-needed depth scoring. These additions should help the Oilers return to playoff contention next season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"lY83d8FhQfpxiaFdtWvKCg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1206328143\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'lY83d8FhQfpxiaFdtWvKCg',sig:'EqpGgwKMDp3bwVKM-jTNwTrEoMoOn5uER4snopb02ec=',w:'594px',h:'386px',items:'1206328143',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are expected to sign free-agent forward Dominik Kahun to a one-year contract worth $975,000. This contract carries him through the 2020-21 season. The news was initially reported from a german website, eishockeynews.de and confirmed by Elliotte Friedman. Kahun deal in EDM will be one-year, $975K \u2014 Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) November 2, 2020 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":90317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,23,34,4548],"tags":[182,927,3344,5738,5168,2569,955,217,3532],"class_list":["post-87532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-oilers","category-news","category-nhl","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-casey-mittelstadt","tag-dominik-kahun","tag-hockey-news","tag-kevyn-adams","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-sam-reinhart","tag-victor-olofsson"],"modified_by":"Colton Osmond, Dept Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}