{"id":163916,"date":"2025-09-23T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163916\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:48:08","slug":"oilers-sign-vasily-podkolzin-to-three-year-8-85-million-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163916\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign Vasily Podkolzin to three-year, $8.85-million contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> announced Tuesday that the forward has signed a three-year contract extension worth $8.85 million, with an AAV of $2.95 million.<\/p>\n<p>Podkolzin, 24, was acquired by Edmonton from the Vancouver Canucks on Aug. 18, 2024, in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>In his first season with the Oilers, the six-foot-one, 190-pound Russian recorded 24 points (eight goals and 16 assists) over 82 games. <\/p>\n<p>Drafted 10th overall by the Canucks in 2019, Podkolzin recorded 35 points (18 goals and 17 assists) in 137 games with Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently in the second season of a two-year, $2-million contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers announced Tuesday that the forward has signed a three-year contract extension worth $8.85 million, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-163916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}