- One-year, two-way contract worth $850,000 AAV at the NHL level
- Raty led Karpat with 57 points in 51 games, tied for seventh in Liiga scoring
- Read below for his full path back to the NHL
The Edmonton Oilers added a Finnish goal scorer Monday.
Stan Bowman and the Oilers announced they have signed 24-year-old forward Aku Raty to a one-year, two-way contract with an average annual value of $850,000.
Raty is coming off the best season of his career. He scored 57 points (20G, 37A) in 51 games with Karpat in Finland’s Liiga, tied for seventh in league scoring and first on his team.
A right-shot winger from Oulu, Raty was a fifth-round pick by the Arizona Coyotes back in 2019. His lone NHL game came on April 17, 2024, against, of all teams, the Oilers. He picked up an assist that night.
His AHL resume is messier. Raty piled up 44 points in 55 games as a rookie with the Tucson Roadrunners in 2023-24, then stalled in 2024-25 before a midseason move sent him to the Chicago Blackhawks organization and the Rockford IceHogs.
So he went home.
That return to Karpat last summer turned out to be exactly the reset he needed, and now the Oilers are giving him another NHL look.
Oilers management has been busy filling out the roster while still searching for a new head coach after parting ways with Kris Knoblauch earlier this month. Raty will have to earn his way onto the NHL roster out of training camp, but the Oilers’ bottom six is rarely a closed shop.
Aku’s younger brother Aatu plays center for the Vancouver Canucks. Pacific Division get-togethers just got a little more interesting.
