{"id":511898,"date":"2026-03-03T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:07:07","slug":"taking-a-closer-look-at-the-connor-murphy-trade-for-the-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/511898\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a Closer Look at the Connor Murphy Trade for the Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy, 32, is a pending unrestricted free agent and brings a steady, defence-first identity to a blue line that has lacked consistency this season. At 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds, he plays a physical, low-risk game, logging heavy penalty-kill minutes while blocking shots and handling tough defensive-zone assignments. He has 13 points, 62 hits, and 87 blocks in 60 games this season, but offense isn\u2019t the priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murphy, 32, is a pending unrestricted free agent and brings a steady, defence-first identity to a blue line&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-511898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511898","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=511898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}