Meet Oilers Draftees & Spitfires Teammates Andrew Robinson & Caden Harvey – Hockey Writers – Edmonton Oilers

In the 2026 NHL Entry Draft in Buffalo on Saturday (June 27), the Edmonton Oilers drafted skaters from the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL): defenseman Andrew Robinson in the sixth round at 133rd overall, and forward Caden Harvey in Round 0th at 18 overall.

It makes for a great story, especially considering that the picks — Edmonton’s third and fourth draft picks this year — were made less than an hour apart, as Robinson and Harvey went from junior teammates to prospects in the same organization.

All About Andrew Robinson

A 6-foot, 190-pound blueliner, Robinson scored nine goals and dished out 15 assists in 63 games during the 2025-26 regular season, while ranking second on the team with a 36-point average. He had two goals and six assists in 13 postseason games as Windsor advanced to the second round of the 2026 OHL Playoffs.

After being left out of NHL Central Scouting’s mid-section of North American forwards in the 2026 NHL Draft, the 18-year-old appeared 205th in the final list. Robinson, a native of Oakville, Ont., has committed to play NCAA Division 1 hockey at Providence beginning in 2027-28.

Get to know Caden Harvey

Harvey appeared in all 68 games for the Spitfires during the 2025-26 regular season, scoring 11 goals and 23 assists to go along with a plus-26 average. The 18-year-old from Beaver, Penn., also played in the Spitfires’ entire postseason run, scoring six points (three goals and three assists.)

The 6-foot-1, 183-pound center slipped slightly in the NHL Central Scouting rankings, coming in at No. 188 on the final list, 10 spots lower than his midseason ranking. Harvey has committed to Penn State for the 2027-28 NCAA Division 1 season.

Oilers Rarely Name Windsor Players

Before Saturday, Edmonton had selected just five players from Windsor in its previous 47 times participating in the NHL Entry Draft. The most notable Spitfire is named after Oilers winger Taylor Hall, who was drafted in 2010. Hall played six seasons with the Oilers before being traded to the New Jersey Devils in 2016.

Other Windsor players drafted by Edmonton include leading scorer Blair Barnes (126^th overall in 1979), Shawn Babcock (48^th total in 1980), Steve Gibson (157^th total in 1992), and Peter Sarno (141^St completely in 1997). Sarno only qualified for seven NHL games (six with the Oilers), while Barnes played his one NHL game with the Los Angeles Kings. Gibson and Babcock never made it to the NHL.

Edmonton’s History of Organizing Teammates

Over the course of their NHL history, the Oilers have selected players from the same team in the same year more than a dozen times. Edmonton even drafted three of his teammates – Devan Dubynk, Max Gordichuk and Roman Teslyuk – to the Kamloops Blazers of the Western Hockey League in 2004.

But only two players who were teammates before being drafted by Edmonton went on to play games with the Oilers: forwards Magnus Paajarvi and Anton Lander, who played for Swedish club Timra IK before being selected by Edmonton in the first and second rounds, respectively, of the 2009 NHL Draft.

The Oilers would be happy if Harvey and Robinson played together in Edmonton one day. In fact, the odds are slim that a sixth- or seventh-round draft pick will go on to have a long NHL career. But the future is yet to be written, and Harvey and Robinson have jobs ahead of them, which they will continue next season with the Spitfires.