{"id":774328,"date":"2026-07-02T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:01:11","slug":"oilers-deal-longtime-defenceman-darnell-nurse-to-sharks-sign-ryan-shea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774328\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers deal longtime defenceman Darnell Nurse to Sharks, sign Ryan Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Darnell Nurse is done in the Alberta capital.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The 31-year-old from Hamilton has added 29 points (seven goals, 22 assists) in 100 playoff games, including Edmonton’s two trips to the Stanley Cup final in 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

Nurse has struggled to live up to the eight-year,$74-million US contract he signed with Edmonton in 2021. He had just seven goals and 24 points in 82 games in 2025-26 for the Oilers, who didn’t retain any salary in the swap.<\/p>\n

The Oilers wasted little time spending some of the cap space freed up by the Nurse deal, signing free-agent defenceman Ryan Shea to a five-year, $20-million pact.<\/p>\n

\"PittsburghPittsburgh Penguins’ Ryan Shea plays during Game 6 in the first round of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs series Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Philadelphia. (Matt Slocum\/AP)<\/p>\n

Shea, 29, had six goals and 29 assists in 80 games for the Pittsburgh Penguins last season.<\/p>\n

The Sharks also added defenceman Jacob Trouba, forward Mason Marchment and goalie Eric Comrie in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-774328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774328","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=774328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}