{"id":564885,"date":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:33:08","slug":"oilers-sign-defenceman-tomas-cibulka-to-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564885\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign defenceman Tomas Cibulka to entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 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> have signed defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The contract is set to begin next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cibulka, a six-foot, 176-pound defender, spent the past two seasons with his hometown team, HC Motor Ceske Budejovice in Czechia\u2019s top league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had 42 points (13 goals, 29 assists) and 57 penalty minutes over 90 regular-season games and 10 points (one goal, nine assists) in 13 post-season games for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Before that, Cibulka had 102 points (18 goals, 84 assists) over three seasons in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League with the Val-d\u2019Or Foreurs and Cape Breton Eagles from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cibulka had two goals in seven games and helped Czechia to a bronze medal at the 2024 world junior hockey championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers entered Friday in second place in the Pacific Division and return to action Saturday afternoon at home against division-leading Anaheim.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract, the NHL club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-564885","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\/564885","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=564885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}