{"id":774143,"date":"2026-07-01T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:59:10","slug":"oilers-trade-defenceman-darnell-nurse-to-sharks-sign-blueliner-ryan-shea-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774143\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers trade defenceman Darnell Nurse to Sharks, sign blueliner Ryan Shea | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782943150_138_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Darnell Nurse (centre) in action for the Oilers against the Anaheim Ducks in Edmonton on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Codie McLachlan<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 1, 2026 | 1:42 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 Darnell Nurse is done in the Alberta capital.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton traded the defenceman to the San Jose Sharks for fellow blueliners Shakir Mukhamadullin and Zack Sharp as part of a chaotic opening to NHL free agency Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Selected seventh overall at the 2013 draft by the Oilers, Nurse has 88 goals and 236 assists for 324 points to go along with 725 penalty minutes in 798 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old from Hamilton has added 29 points (seven goals, 22 assists) in 100 playoff games, including Edmonton\u2019s two trips to the Stanley Cup final in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnell Nurse (centre) in action for the Oilers against the Anaheim Ducks in Edmonton on Wednesday, April 22,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,23752,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-774143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-edmonton","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774143","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=774143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}