The Edmonton Oilers have signed college defenceman Philip Kemp to a three-year, entry-level contract through to the 2022-23 season.
The 21-year-old from Greenwich, Conn., was named Yale Bulldogs captain for the 2020-21 season, but Ivy League hockey was cancelled Nov. 12.
The Oilers picked Kemp in the seventh round (208th overall) in the 2017 NHL entry draft.
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He had three goals and eight assists and carried a plus-4 plus-minus rating in 32 games for Yale in 2019-20.
The six-foot-three, 210-pound blueliner has compiled a career nine goals, 18 assists and a plus-2 rating in 88 games for the Bulldogs.
Kemp won a silver medal with the U.S. junior team at the 2019 world junior hockey championship in Vancouver.
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