{"id":753408,"date":"2026-06-22T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753408\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:32:09","slug":"oilers-re-sign-connor-murphy-on-five-year-20-5m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/753408\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers re-sign Connor Murphy on five-year, $20.5M deal"},"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> are keeping a reliable blue-liner around for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>The contract carries an average annual value of $4.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old veteran tallied 17 points (five goals, 12 assists) in 80 games split between the Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers last season after being dealt ahead of the trade deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Murphy spent nine seasons in Chicago and previously played four seasons for the Arizona and Phoenix Coyotes, totalling 177 points over 825 career games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Selected 20th overall in the 2011 NHL Draft, Murphy will continue to add an important, defensive-oriented presence to Edmonton\u2019s blue line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers are keeping a reliable blue-liner around for the long haul. The contract carries an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-753408","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\/753408","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=753408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}