{"id":340736,"date":"2025-12-12T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/340736\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:59:07","slug":"oilers-acquire-d-spencer-stastney-from-predators-for-third-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/340736\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers acquire D Spencer Stastney from Predators for third-round pick"},"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> have added a defenceman to play in front of their new goalie.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/spencer-stastney\/b57ef464-d128-49c6-8560-8a8ae51280dd\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b57ef464-d128-49c6-8560-8a8ae51280dd\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spencer Stastney<\/a> from the Nashville Predators in exchange for a 2027 third-round pick, the teams <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PredsNHL\/status\/1999498344465314247?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second move of the day for Edmonton, after they acquired netminder Tristan Jarry from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Stastney, 25, has played in 30 games this season, recording a goal and eight assists. The six-foot, left-shot defenceman has played in 81 NHL games over his career, logging 18 points (three goals, 15 assists).<\/p>\n<p>While coming from the Preds, who sit at the bottom of the standings, the blue-liner is a minus-1 on the season while averaging just under 15 minutes of ice time a night. He also has some playoff experience, appearing in three games during Nashville&#8217;s 2023-24 first-round exit.<\/p>\n<p>Stastney now joins a banged-up Edmonton squad that has a hole on the left-side of the defence. The Oilers not only placed Jake Walman on the long-term injured reserve on Thursday, but Brett Kulak was shipped to Pittsburgh as part of the return for Jarry.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers face the Maple Leafs in Toronto on Saturday, beginning at 7 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. MT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers have added a defenceman to play in front of their new goalie. The Oilers acquired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-340736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340736","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=340736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}