Klim Kostin Continues to Earn Admiration of Oilers Fans, Drops Gloves w/ Brendan Lemieux

Klim Kostin has been a breath of fresh air for Oilers fans since he arrived this fall via trade from the St. Louis Blues. Kostin is playing on a one-year, $750,000 deal, but ask Oilers fans, and they will admit he's playing at a discount.

He has just 9 points in 26 games, but he has emerged as quite the glue guy, of which no team can have enough. He fights, he hits, he forechecks, and - arguably most importantly - he told Jim Matheson to kick rocks.

The Oilers got a solid deal here, trading for Kostin in exchange for defenseman Dmitri Samorukov, who has yet to play a game for St. Louis. Could an extension rest on the horizon? If GM Ken Holland was wise, then yes.

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