Oilers sign Aku Raty to one-year contract
The Edmonton Oilers have agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract with free agent forward Aku Raty, the club announced Monday afternoon.
Raty, 24, spent the 2025-26 season with Karpat in the Finnish Liiga, posting a team-leading 57 points (20 goals, 37 assists) in 51 games. His new contract with the Oilers carries an $850,000 NHL cap hit.
A fifth-round draft pick of the Arizona Coyotes in 2019, Raty played in his only NHL game to date as a member of the Coyotes in the 2023-24 season finale, their final game at Mullett Arena, recording an assist in a 5-2 win over the Oilers.
Raty’s younger brother, Aatu, is a center for the Vancouver Canucks.
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Raty spent his first four seasons after being drafted playing in Finland, gradually emerging as an everyday player with Karpat before joining Ilves Tampere for the 2022-23 season. He parlayed a strong season with Ilves into an entry-level deal with the Coyotes.
After scoring 15 goals and 44 points in 55 games with the AHL’s Tucson Roadrunners in the 2023-24 season, Raty joined the Utah Mammoth (then the Utah Hockey Club) with the rest of his former Coyotes counterparts but regressed to just four goals and 19 points in 50 games with Tucson the following year.
Ahead of the 2025 trade deadline, Utah traded Raty, Victor Soderstrom, and Shea Weber’s contract to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for a fifth-round pick. Raty finished the season with the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs before returning to Finland for the 2025-26 season.
The Oilers finished the 2025-26 season in second place in the Pacific Division with a 41-30-11 record and 93 points in 82 games. They fell to the Anaheim Ducks in six games in the first round of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, ending their reign as two-time defending Western Conference champions.