Oilers Add Swedish League's Leading Scorer For 2025-26
David Tomasek. (Jeannette Dahlström/Bildbyrän)Signing season rolls along.
Fresh off signing prospects Damien Carfagna from the NCAA and Josh Samanski from the DEL, the Edmonton Oilers have announced yet another signing: Czech forward David Tomasek.
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Unlike Carfagna and Samanski, the 29-year-old Tomasek will be fighting for a spot on the Oilers out of training camp in 2025-26. The Oilers have good reason to believe he can: Tomasek led the Swedish Hockey League in scoring this past season, helping Farjestad to the regular season title with 24 goals and 57 points in 47 games.
Tomasek has played all over Europe: he's played three stints in his native Czechia, a season each in Finland and the KHL, and the past two seasons as one of the best players in the SHL.
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This kind of signing is general manager Stan Bowman's bread and butter. During his tenure in Chicago, Bowman plucked players such as Artemi Panarin, Antti Raanta, Erik Gustafsson, and Dominik Kubalik out of Europe and turned them into valuable NHLers--invaluable, in Panarin's case.
Tomasek also resembles two former Oilers: Gaetan Haas and Joakim Nygard. Both players were signed out of Europe in 2019 and spent parts of two seasons in Edmonton as depth forwards.
Tomasek comes with higher potential than the two former Oilers. Nygard topped out at 35 points in his final season before coming to Edmonton, and Tomasek has outscored the Swedish winger in their two years together as teammates with Farjestad.
Though Tomasek won't arrive until next season, it never hurts to think about the future. The Oilers will need solid, cheap depth forwards next season, and Tomasek's $1.2 million cap hit shows the Oilers' confidence in him without making too much of a dent in their finances.
Only time will tell if the Czech forward can outperform the last batch of Oilers European signings.
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