The 2025-26 season is just a few months away. Training camp for the Minnesota Wild will begin in just over a month from now. Wild hockey will be here before we know it.
This means it is time for some players to sign professional tryouts with NHL teams to join them in camp. There are a few good NHL players who are still unsigned right now that could be PTO candidates if they go unsigned.
Victor Olofsson is one of them. The 5-foot-11 winger spent the 2024-25 season with the Vegas Golden Knights. He was on a one-year contract worth $1,075,000. In 56 games with the VGK, Olofsson recorded 15 goals, 14 assists and 29 points.
He was in and out of the lineup of Vegas' because of how good the Golden Knights' depth was. He recorded six goals on the power play last season.
Olofsson, 30, has spent seven seasons in the NHL and has three 20-goal seasons. His career high was 28 with the Buffalo Sabres in 2022-23. He is a top power play kind of guy who scored 11 power-play goals during the 2019-20 season. He finished that year with 20 goals.
In his career, Olofsson has recorded 105 goals, 106 assists, 211 points, 41 power-play goals and 28 power play assists in 370 games.
He has played in nine playoff games in his career. They all came last season with the Golden Knights. In four playoff games against the Wild, Olofsson had a power-play assist. It was a primary assist on Shea Theodore's opening goal in Game 6 which eliminated the Wild from the playoffs.
It is weird to think Olofsson is not signed yet and if he still isn't by training camp, he should be an option as a PTO for the Wild.
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