
C
ome September, Philp arrived early at coaching camp to skate with different Oilers prospects and instantly noticed the fruits of his summer time labour. Edmonton’s administration staff and training workers did, too.
“I used to be instructed that I had turned a couple of heads in camp and that they had been actually impressed with how I got here again and the way I approached coming again,” Philp remembers.
His camp stint prolonged all the best way to the ultimate few cuts, his task to AHL Bakersfield coming the day earlier than the Oilers submitted their opening night time roster. In sending the promising ahead to the Condors, the place he’d spent the 2022-23 season previous to stepping away, Edmonton tasked him with additional fine-tuning his abilities by way of in-game reps.
“They simply mentioned, ‘We actually like what you carry to the desk and we wish you to go and play as a lot as you possibly can and get extra reps in,’” Philp says. “What I completely agree with them on is that these little tiny puck abilities and that type of factor is what I really feel like I misplaced most from that point off.”