{"id":510507,"date":"2026-03-03T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510507\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:50:17","slug":"oilers-acquire-defenceman-murphy-from-blackhawks-for-second-round-draft-pick-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510507\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers acquire defenceman Murphy from Blackhawks for second-round draft pick in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772499017_202_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 2, 2026 | 5:20 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenceman Connor Murphy from the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks will retain 50 per cent of Murphy\u2019s US$4.4-million salary, the Oilers said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Murphy is in the final season of a four-year contract worth $17.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-four, 212-pound blueliner has four goals and nine assists in 60 games this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Mar 2, 2026 | 5:20 PM EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers acquired defenceman Connor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-510507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510507","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=510507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}