The Edmonton Oilers hockey club announced Saturday the signing of Penticton Vees alum and University of Maine captain Tanner House to a two-year contract.
House just finished his senior season with the Black Bears and was fourth in team scoring with 10 goals and 25 assists. He also racked up 56 penalty minutes was a +13 on his way to being named the Hockey East Conference Best Defensive Forward.
A 6-foot-1, 195-pound native of Cochrane, Alta., House played the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons with the Vees, scoring 28 goals and 72 assists in 110 games.
House majored in finance at Maine and kept a 3.8 grade-point average. He was a mainstay on the Hockey East academic honour roll and was awarded Maine's Dean Smith Award as the school's top scholar athlete last year.
He was also a nominee, along with fellow Vees alum Trevor Nill, for the BNY Mellon Wealth Management Hockey Humanitarian Award in recognition of his various volunteer efforts and work on Maine's student-athlete advisory committee.
