Tulsa Oilers Add Ex Viper McNelly To Season-Ending Roster:

The ECHL Tulsa Oilers announced the team’s season-ending roster from

 the 2024-25 season. This is the second of a several-step process that teams use to begin building their rosters for the 2025-26 season. The Oilers have twenty players listed on the team's season-ending roster, one is former Vernon Vipers defenceman Cade McNelly.

The ECHL (formerly the East Coast Hockey League) is a minor professional ice hockey league based in Shrewsbury, New Jersey, with teams across the United States and Canada. Competitively, it is a tier below the American Hockey League (AHL). The league serves as a farm system to the AHL and the National Hockey League (NHL).

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McNelly spent the 2024-25 season with the ECHL Tulsa Oilers, his first season with the Oilers. In 31 games last season, McNelly collected (0-goals-6-assists-6-points).

The Oilers added McNelly to their training camp roster October 7th 2024 before suspending McNelly October 15th 2024. The Oilers signed McNelly December 19th 2024 upon visa approval.

McNelly played one season at SAIT (Southern AB Inst. of Tech) during the 2022-23 season before the ECHL Fort Wayne Komets signed McNelly to a tryout agreement August 28th 2023. McNelly never played a game with the Komets, was released October 18th 2023. 

McNelly attended the Los Angeles Kings 2021 training camp.

McNelly played parts of five seasons in the Western Hockey League from 2017-22 with the Seattle Thunderbirds and Vancouver Giants before signing with the 2021-22 Vernon Vipers. The Vipers signed McNelly January 10th 2022. In 19 games with the Vipers, McNelly collected (3-goals-0-assists-3-points).

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