Alex Formenton: Oilers Contract, Stats and Full Profile

Alex Formenton is a Canadian left winger for the Edmonton Oilers, and he spent four full seasons in the NHL before he got there. Alex Formenton signed a one-year contract with Edmonton on 9 September 2026 worth $850,000, having last played an NHL game for the Ottawa Senators in 2022. He scored 18 goals in a single season for Ottawa before things went wrong.

Fast facts: Alex Formenton
Current team	Edmonton Oilers
Position	Left wing
Shoots	Left
Born	13 September 1999, Barrie, Ontario
Height / weight	6-foot-3, 194 lbs, per EliteProspects
Drafted	2017, second round, 47th overall, Ottawa Senators
Contract status	One year signed 9 September 2026, $850,000, Edmonton Oilers
Previous clubs	Ottawa Senators, Belleville Senators, London Knights, HC Ambri-Piotta

Where is Alex Formenton playing now?

In Edmonton. TSN reported on 9 September 2026 that the Oilers signed him to a one-year, $850,000 contract, and he scored his first goal for them on 10 October 2026, backhanding a Mathieu Joseph feed on a rush in a 3-1 win at San Jose.

He’s there for speed. “He can skate a little bit,” head coach Mike Babcock said of him, and more usefully: “Elite penalty killer; puts pressure on the other team.” Formenton’s own account of arriving was short on triumph. “It was a difficult road. It was tough on my family and me personally,” he said in September 2026. After his first pre-season game for Edmonton, a 5-2 win over Winnipeg on 19 September 2026: “It was nice to get a goal, but it was nice to get the legs moving and get back up to pace.”

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What are Alex Formenton’s career stats?

Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	P	PIM
2016-17	London Knights	OHL	65	16	18	34	50
2017-18	London Knights	OHL	48	29	19	48	55
2017-18	Ottawa Senators	NHL	1	0	0	0	0
2018-19	London Knights	OHL	31	13	21	34	50
2018-19	Ottawa Senators	NHL	9	1	0	1	6
2019-20	Belleville Senators	AHL	61	27	26	53	65
2020-21	Ottawa Senators	NHL	20	4	2	6	6
2021-22	Ottawa Senators	NHL	79	18	14	32	59
2022-23	HC Ambri-Piotta	Swiss NL	22	10	3	13	74
2023-24	HC Ambri-Piotta	Swiss NL	24	10	6	16	22
2025-26	HC Ambri-Piotta	Swiss NL	42	13	10	23	48

The Edmonton contract pays $62,500 more than the Ottawa offer he turned down four years earlier. Ottawa’s qualifying offer in the summer of 2022 was $787,500, and the Oilers deal is $850,000, a difference of under eight per cent. The cost was never the money: it was four complete NHL seasons, 328 scheduled games, that he did not play.

One season carries most of his record in Ottawa. His 2021-22 campaign accounts for eighteen of the 23 goals and 32 of the 39 points he scored in 109 games for the Senators.

Why did Alex Formenton leave the Ottawa Senators?

Because a contract was never signed, and a deadline passed. Ottawa made him a qualifying offer of $787,500 in the summer of 2022; he did not accept it, no new deal followed, and he missed the December 1, 2022, cut-off that makes a restricted free agent ineligible for the rest of the season. His own words, in a legal filing reported by TSN: the Senators “did not propose or agree to a new contract with Alex prior to December 1, 2022,” and so “Alex was ineligible to play in the NHL for the remainder of the 2022-23 season.”

Ottawa kept his rights for years afterward and finally let them go on 8 May 2026, removing him from the club’s free agent list with NHL Central Registry and making him an unrestricted free agent. Senators general manager Steve Staios had said in September 2025 that a fresh start would be best for everybody.

What happened in Alex Formenton’s court case?

He was acquitted. Alex Formenton was one of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior team charged with sexual assault in early 2024, in a case concerning events in London, Ontario, in 2018, and on 24 July 2025 Justice Maria Carroccia of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found all five not guilty. He had pleaded not guilty and faced a single count.

Justice Carroccia’s reasoning turned on the complainant’s evidence. “I do not find the evidence of E.M. to be either credible or reliable,” she said, as The Globe and Mail reported, and she concluded that “the Crown cannot meet its onus on any of the counts before me.” The Crown announced on 21 August 2025 that it would not appeal, which made the acquittals final.

When was Alex Formenton allowed to return to the NHL?

The league set the dates itself. On 11 September 2025, the NHL announced that the players involved would be eligible to sign contracts no sooner than 15 October 2025 and eligible to play games no sooner than 1 December 2025. Its statement called the conduct “deeply troubling and unacceptable” and said that “while found not to have been criminal, the conduct of the players involved certainly did not meet” the league’s standard of moral integrity, while noting that the players had already been away from the game for twenty months. The NHL Players’ Association said the same day that it considered the matter closed.

Formenton did not sign immediately. He stayed in Switzerland for all of 2025-26 and returned to North America the following September.

What did Alex Formenton do in Switzerland?

He scored at a better rate than he ever managed in the NHL. Across three seasons with HC Ambri-Piotta in the Swiss National League, he scored 33 goals and totaled 52 points in 88 games, which works out to 0.59 points per game against 0.36 in Ottawa. He signed there on 14 December 2022, won the Spengler Cup with the club that same month, and sat out the whole of 2024-25 without playing anywhere.

What has Alex Formenton done for Canada?

One tournament, and he finished it with the goal that sealed it. Alex Formenton played for Canada at the 2018 World Junior Championship and scored the empty-netter in the 3-1 win over Sweden in the final in Buffalo, before 17,544 people. He played seven games, scoring two goals and adding two assists. He has never played for the senior national team.

His junior record in the OHL is unusually tidy: 58 goals and 58 assists in 144 games for London.

Is Alex Formenton married?

There is no publicly confirmed information about Alex Formenton’s relationship status. He has not discussed it and no established outlet has reported on it.