Oilers star’s one-time team to give away 2,000 bobbleheads at game this fall

The Bakersfield Condors plan to give away 2,000 bobbleheads in the likeness of NHL star Leon Draisail to children aged 12 and under at their opening-night game in October 2025.

A Leon Draisaitl bobblehead giveaway is toy-rific news – if you’re a child planning to attend a mid-October hockey game in California.

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The Bakersfield Condors, a minor-league affiliate of the Edmonton Oilers, announced 2,000 of the wobbly keepsakes in the likeness of the National Hockey League superstar will be given free to kids aged 12 and under attending their opening-night game on Oct. 18 against the San Jose Barracuda.

Draisaitl – the NHL’s leading goal-scorer last season with 52 goals, and a former league most valuable player and leading scorer – played six games for the Condors in their inaugural American Hockey League campaign in 2015-16.

The 29-year-old centre has played 790 NHL games over 11 seasons, scoring 399 goals and 557 assists for 956 points, all with the Oilers, who drafted him third overall in 2014.

Draisaitl, whose eight-year, $112-million contract extension signed in September begins this coming NHL season, is in the south of France this coming weekend to marry Celeste Desjardins. The couple became engaged a year ago.