The Edmonton Oilers are getting encouraging early returns from three CHL prospects, with each one opening the season on a productive note.
The Canadian Hockey League got rolling a few weeks ago, and so far the Oilers’ young group has looked up to the task. David Lewandowski, Andrew Robinson and Caden Harvey are all off to strong starts in their respective leagues, giving Edmonton a handful of positive developments to track.
Lewandowski has been the headliner. After getting cut at Oilers training camp, the 19-year-old went back to the Saskatoon Blades for a third straight WHL season and has come out flying. The German-born winger, taken by Edmonton in the fourth round, 117th overall at the 2025 NHL Draft, has put up 13 points in seven games, with four goals and nine assists.
That follows a major jump from last season, when Lewandowski produced 17 goals and 48 assists for 65 points in 57 games with the Blades. The year before, he finished with 39 points - 15 goals and 24 assists - in 52 games. He’s a power forward winger who brings size, physical play and offensive touch, and the hope is that he can develop into a useful top-nine option for the Oilers if everything clicks.
Robinson is making noise on the blue line, too. Edmonton picked the defenceman in the fifth round, 133rd overall at the 2026 NHL Draft, and he’s started his year with the Windsor Spitfires by piling up nine points in eight games. That includes one goal and eight assists, a strong offensive start for a player who posted 24 points last season.
He’s in a bigger role now after spending last year lower in the Windsor pecking order on a team that was chasing a Memorial Cup berth and didn’t get there. With the Spitfires’ roster thinner this season, Robinson has a chance to do more, and that’s exactly what he’s doing. He’s a mobile defenceman with a modern two-way game and some offensive upside, even if no one should expect him to keep scoring at this rate.
Harvey is right there with him in Windsor. The Oilers took the winger in the sixth round, 180th overall at the 2026 NHL Draft, making him the second Spitfires player selected by Edmonton after Robinson. Like Robinson, he was expected to have a bigger role this season with so much talent gone from the roster.
So far, that’s played out. Harvey has two goals and six assists for eight points in eight games, a sharp increase for a player who was already operating at about a half-point-per-game pace last year.
He’s a puckhound and a heavy forechecker, the kind of winger Edmonton seems to like in its system. The scoring pace probably won’t stay this high forever, but the early jump is exactly the kind of sign the Oilers wanted to see.
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