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Noah Philp is returning to professional hockey.

The 25-year-old centre from Canmore re-signed with the Edmonton Oilers on a one-year, two-way contract worth $775,000 at the NHL level after taking a year off from the game.

“I think a lot of people may have looked into it as if I retired … but basically when I left hockey I just had a strong feeling to do so and then I wanted to get away and I didn’t really know how long that would be,” said Philp.

“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.”

In June 2023, Philp unexpectedly announced he was stepping away from hockey.

Former Oilers general manager Ken Holland said the club had offered Philp a two-year contract at that time, but he turned it down.

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