{"id":187562,"date":"2025-10-03T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187562\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:44:07","slug":"edmonton-oilers-reach-multi-year-contract-extension-with-head-coach-kris-knoblauch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/187562\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers reach multi-year contract extension with head coach Kris Knoblauch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> signed head coach Kris Knoblauch through the 2028-29 season on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The three-year deal comes as Knoblauch was previously set to enter the season on an expiring contract. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 47-year-old Knoblauch has found plenty of success in Edmonton since taking over for former Oilers head coach Jay Woodcroft on Nov. 12, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knoblauch led the Oilers to a 46-18-5 record over the last 69 games of the 2023-24 season before guiding the Oilers to the Stanley Cup Final where they fell to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> in seven games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In his first full season as Edmonton\u2019s bench boss, Knoblauch and the Oilers finished third in the Pacific Division last year with a 48-29-5 record. Once they again Edmonton marched to the Stanley Cup Final before dropping the championship series to the Panthers in six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knoblauch, who previously held head coaching jobs in the Western Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and American Hockey League, owns a 94-47-10 regular season record and a 29-19 playoff record over two seasons with the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton is Knoblauch\u2019s first head coaching stint in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers signed head coach Kris Knoblauch through the 2028-29 season on Friday. The three-year deal comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,79560,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-187562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}