BREAKING: Noah Philp of Canmore has signed a one-year, two-way contract with Oilers.

An Albertan rejoins the Edmonton Oilers and plays hockey again.

Noah Philp is going back to playing hockey professionally.

After taking a year off from the game, the 25-year-old center from Canmore re-signed with the Edmonton Oilers on a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 in the NHL.

“I think a lot of people might have assumed that I had retired, but when I actually stopped playing hockey, it was just out of a strong desire to move on and I wasn’t really sure how long that would be,” Philp said.

“I did some travelling and then sort of 10 months later, I just started feeling a pretty big urge to come back into it, so when I left, I just wanted to be away from it for a while and then I came back and felt that it was time to get back into it, that I missed it a little bit.”

“He’s made a decision to call it a career,” said Holland to The Athletic’s Daniel Nugent-Bowman in June 2023.

“It was a very, very difficult year for him. He told us he wants to be around Calgary and close to his family and friends. For personal reasons, he’s not playing hockey.”

Philp said he never used the word retiring during that time and he added he wasn’t burnt out either.

“Interests change as we get older and I felt a pretty strong need just to take some time,” said Philp. “I didn’t really think too deeply about it, it’s something that I sort of just felt and went with my gut.”