Roby Järventie Signs Two-Year Deal With HC Ambrì-Piotta
roby järventie has signed a two-year contract with HC Ambrì-Piotta of the Swiss National League, ending his run in the Edmonton Oilers organization. The move comes after he played 61 AHL games and appeared in three NHL games in 2025-26.
Järventie’s Switzerland move
The 2025-26 season gave Järventie his busiest stretch in North America in years. He produced 47 points in 61 AHL games and added three NHL games, a workload that stood in sharp contrast to the injuries that had slowed him before.
His new deal changes the path from here. Instead of going into restricted free agency this summer, he is headed to HC Ambrì-Piotta on a two-year contract and will continue his career in the Swiss National League.
Oilers and Järventie
Edmonton acquired him from the Ottawa Senators in the summer of 2024 in exchange for Xavier Bourgault, but the fit never lasted long enough to build real momentum. Mid-season knee surgery and recovery issues limited him to two games in 2024-25, and he had signed with Finnish club Tappara Tampere last summer before reversing course and returning to an NHL organization.
That sequence leaves a clean break now. Järventie, once a 33rd overall pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, is no longer working his way through the Oilers system and instead moves to a league where he can reset his game away from the AHL/NHL shuttle.
Draft path and setbacks
His development has moved in fits since Ottawa selected him 33rd overall in 2020. He entered North America’s pro circuit in 2021, scored 11 goals and 33 points in 70 AHL games as a rookie in 2021-22, and followed that with 16 goals and 30 points in 40 games the next season after a knee injury cut his schedule short.
Järventie also got his first NHL games in 2023-24, though he was limited to under 30 total games that season. The injuries have been the friction point in an otherwise rising prospect track, even after he reached 25 points in 48 games for Ilves Tampere a year later and scored at a point-per-game rate during his draft season for KooVee Tampere in the second-tier Mestis.
The next stretch now belongs to HC Ambrì-Piotta, and the most immediate question is how much ice time and health he can string together after two disrupted seasons and a brief NHL run. His most recent contract with Edmonton carried a league-minimum NHL salary, a $125K AHL salary, and a $200K guarantee, but the two-year Swiss deal gives him a new route after years of stops and starts.
