New Oilers forward David Tomasek revealed that he snubbed other NHL teams for Edmonton after a secret, unexpected visit from management to see him. <a href='https://www.hockeylatest.com/nhl-team/edmonton-oilers/edmonton-oilers-sign-czech-forward-to-a-one-year-contract' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Edmonton signed a one-year, one-way, $1.2 million USD deal</a> with Czech right winger David Tomasek, age 29, in early April. Never throughout David Tomasek's NHL-less career had he assembled a monster season in Sweden like the one he just had for Farjestad, when he recorded 24 goals, 33 assists, and 57 points in total during the 2024-25 season, which gave Tomasek league MVP honors. David Tomasek once narrowly avoided signing an NHL deal a year ago but renewed in Sweden instead. Today, he's jumping abruptly right across to North America, although not strange ground. As a youth, he played hockey in Michigan, and he also spent two seasons playing in the OHL for the Belleville Bulls. <h3>David Tomasek was never drafted in the NHL</h3> Though undrafted, he had a versatile career in Europe playing in Czechia (Dynamo Pardubice, Sparta Prague), Finland (JYP), Russia (Amur Khabarovsk), and Sweden (Farjestad). A season-ending injury had kept him out of the Czech Republic's jersey during this year's World Championship, but he's back to full fitness now and training in Prague. <div align='center' class='pl20 pr20'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/yegsportstalk/status/1942314550436716853'><div style='border:1px solid #CCCCCC;border-radius:10px;padding:20px;width:300px;'>Loading from Twitter ...</div></a></blockquote></div> <a href='https://sports.yahoo.com/article/oilers-signee-david-tom-ek-145819299.html' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Tomasek conceded that he had two or three NHL teams that were genuinely interested</a>, but all other teams had two-way contracts to bring him aboard. Did you have several NHL offers to choose from? I wouldn't say there were that many. Two or three teams that were more seriously interested. I had some discussions with Edmonton last year, but it didn't work out. Some clubs were only offering two-way contracts. I guess the deciding moment was when they visited me in Sweden - that always convinces you in some way. It wasn't until Edmonton's front office flew all the way to Sweden in a secretive, surprise move to see him that he signed on paper, he said, which was a gesture that really stuck in his head.