{"id":577920,"date":"2026-04-02T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:51:14","slug":"edmonton-oilers-sign-forward-owen-michaels-to-one-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577920\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers sign forward Owen Michaels to one-year, 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 forward Owen Michaels to a one-year entry-level contract for next season, the NHL club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Michaels had 13 goals and 13 assists in 39 NCAA games with Western Michigan this past season while serving as team captain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was named the Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player in 2025 after leading Western Michigan to its first U.S. college title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He capped his tournament with two goals in a 6-2 win over Boston University in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old from Northville, Mich., had 33 goals and 33 assists in 119 games over three seasons with the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers sat second in the Pacific Division and looked to build on a four-game winning streak when they hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Owen Michaels to a one-year entry-level contract for next season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-577920","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","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577920","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=577920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}