{"id":751860,"date":"2026-06-21T16:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751860\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T16:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T16:18:13","slug":"edmonton-oilers-extend-forward-jason-dickinson-on-four-year-20m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751860\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers extend forward Jason Dickinson on four-year, $20M deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jason Dickinson is staying put in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The forward and the Oilers reached a five-year, $20 million extension that carries a cap hit of $4 million and takes a pending unrestricted free agent off the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dickinson, 30, finished last season with the Oilers when he was acquired, along with forward Colton Dach, in exchange for forward Andrew Mangiapane and a conditional first-round draft pick in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had seven goals and 17 points in 64 games split between the Blackhawks and Oilers last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dickinson added two goals and three points in four playoff games as the Oilers were eliminated in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-2 centre is coming off a two-year, $8.5 million contract that carried a cap hit of $4.25 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 29th overall by the Dallas Stars in 2013, Dickinson has 75 goals and 172 points in 566 career games split between the Stars, Vancouver Canucks, Blackhawks, and Oilers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His best offensive season came during the 2023-24 campaign where he registered 22 goals and 35 points in 82 games with the Blackhawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Dickinson is staying put in Edmonton. The forward and the Oilers reached a five-year, $20 million extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[712,49,48,23752,79560,204043],"class_list":["post-751860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-jason-dickinson-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477450"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751860","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=751860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}