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ome September, Philp arrived early at coaching camp to skate with different Oilers prospects and instantly noticed the fruits of his summer season labour. Edmonton’s administration workforce and training employees 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 way in which to the ultimate few cuts, his task to AHL Bakersfield coming the day earlier than the Oilers submitted their opening evening 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 expertise by way of in-game reps.
“They simply stated, ‘We actually like what you carry to the desk and we wish you to go and play as a lot as you may and get extra reps in,’” Philp says. “What I completely agree with them on is that these little tiny puck expertise and that kind of factor is what I really feel like I misplaced most from that point off.”
