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A closer look into Trent Frederic’s slow start to the season

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11.11.2025
This past summer, the Edmonton Oilers extended Trent Frederic to an eight-year contract at a $3.85M AAV. The 27-year-old forward was traded to Edmonton from the Boston Bruins at the trade deadline, skating in just one regular-season game for the team due to a high-ankle sprain, though he did appear in all 22 of Edmonton’s postseason games.

However, Frederic’s start to his first season on his new contract has been far from ideal. Through 16 games thus far, Frederic has just a single point – a goal against the Rangers in Game 3 – in 16 games, tied for the lowest among all of Edmonton’s forwards. Of course, it is quite early into the season, but Frederic already saw a dip in production with Boston in the 2024-25 regular-season, and in the 2025 playoffs with Edmonton, he had just 4 points in 22 games. That’s certainly not an encouraging trend.

So, should the Oilers be concerned about Frederic’s performance to begin the year? Let’s take a closer look.

We’ll begin with the production totals. Here is a timeline of Frederic’s year-by-year 5-on-5 points per hour rate:

Frederic had a string of three very solid seasons of production in Boston from 2021-22 through 2023-24, producing at steadily increasing rates of 1.7, 2.0, and 2.1 5-on-5 points per hour in those three........

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