{"id":566165,"date":"2026-03-28T08:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:26:48","slug":"release-oilers-sign-defenceman-tomas-cibulka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566165\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Oilers sign defenceman Tomas Cibulka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced Friday they have signed\u00a0defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract\u00a0beginning in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Cibulka (6&#8217;0&#8243;, 176 lbs.) has spent the past two seasons with HC Motor Ceske Budejovice in Czechia&#8217;s top league, where he has compiled 42 points (13G, 29A) over 90 games to go along with 10 points (1G, 9A) in 13 post-season appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old native of Ceske Budejovice, Czechia played his junior hockey in Canada, spending three seasons in the QMJHL split between the Val-d\u2019Or Foreurs and Cape Breton Eagles from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In 191 games, he amassed 102 points (18G, 84A) while also helping Czechia capture a bronze medal at the 2024 World Junior Championship, where he scored a pair of goals in seven games at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced Friday they have signed\u00a0defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract\u00a0beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-566165","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\/566165","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=566165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}