{"id":193481,"date":"2025-10-06T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193481\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:12:12","slug":"oilers-closing-in-on-seven-year-49-million-extension-for-jake-walman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/193481\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers closing in on seven-year, $49 million extension for Jake Walman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If news of an extension for superstar Connor McDavid wasn&#8217;t enough, 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> locked up yet another piece for the coming years. <\/p>\n<p>The Oilers are reportedly closing in on a seven-year, $49 million extension \u2014 worth $7 million in average annual value \u2014 for defenceman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jake-walman\/dc308799-09f6-4710-99b4-6ce630639ca2\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"dc308799-09f6-4710-99b4-6ce630639ca2\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jake Walman<\/a>, Sportsnet&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1975237969037701222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Elliotte Friedman reported<\/a> on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Walman joined the Oilers at the trade deadline last season from the San Jose Sharks. In 15 regular-season games, he notched one goal and seven assists. He added two goals and eight assists in 22 post-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has missed the majority of the pre-season after suffering an undisclosed injury. He only suited up for one exhibition game against the Flames on Sept. 21 and played 21:59 in the 3-2 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Originally selected by the St. Louis Blues 82nd overall in the third round of the 2014 draft, Walman has 32 goals and 59 assists over 267 regular-season games, split between the Blues, Detroit Red Wings, Sharks and Oilers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If news of an extension for superstar Connor McDavid wasn&#8217;t enough, the Edmonton Oilers locked up yet another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-193481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193481","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=193481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}