Oilers sign Lazar to 1-year contract

New Jersey Devils centre Curtis Lazar during an NHL hockey game against the Columbus Blue Jackets Monday, March 17, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio.

Curtis Lazar is coming back to Edmonton.

The former star of the major junior Oil Kings has signed a one-year contract worth US$775,000 with the major-league Oilers, the National Hockey League team announced on Wednesday.

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The Oilers are the 30-year-old forward’s seventh NHL team. The 11-year NHL veteran spent the last three seasons with the New Jersey Devils after stints with the Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames and the Ottawa Senators, the team that drafted him 17th overall in 2013. He scored two goals and three assists for five points in 48 games for the Devils last season, and has 47 goals and 78 assists for 125 points in 572 career NHL games.

The Salmon Arm, B.C., native spent four seasons with the Oil Kings, which included two trips to the Memorial Cup: in 2012 and 2014, winning the latter as a first-line forward with the Western Hockey League club. He made the jump to the NHL the following season.