{"id":774514,"date":"2026-07-02T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:06:13","slug":"andersen-signs-1-year-2-8-million-contract-with-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/774514\/","title":{"rendered":"Andersen signs 1-year, $2.8 million contract with Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/frederik-andersen-8475883\" title=\"Frederik Andersen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frederik Andersen<\/a> signed a one-year, $2.8 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old goalie was 16-14-5 with a 3.05 goals-against average and .874 save percentage in 35 games for the Carolina Hurricanes last season and helped them win the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He was 13-2 with a 1.89\u00a0GAA, .910 save percentage and three shutouts in 16 Stanley Cup Playoff games. Andersen did not play after Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights because of a knee injury; the Hurricanes would go on to win the series in six games.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Anaheim Ducks in the third round (No. 87) of the 2012\u00a0NHL Draft, Andersen is 324-149-58 with a 2.59 GAA, .913 save percentage and 28 shutouts in 552 regular-season games (538 starts) for the Ducks, Toronto Maple Leafs and Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen is 59-37 with a 2.32\u00a0GAA and .913 save percentage and eight shutouts in 101 postseason games.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton also signed\u00a0defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ryan-shea-8478854\" title=\"Ryan Shea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Shea<\/a>\u00a0to a five-year, $20 million contract ($4 million AAV), and forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kasperi-kapanen-8477953\" title=\"Kasperi Kapanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>\u00a0to a one-year, $2.6 million contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/darnell-nurse-8477498\" title=\"Darnell Nurse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darnell Nurse<\/a>\u00a0was also traded to the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday for defensemen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/shakir-mukhamadullin-8482166\" title=\"Shakir Mukhamadullin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/oilers\/player\/zachary-sharp-8485603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zachary Sharp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frederik Andersen signed a one-year, $2.8 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday. The 36-year-old goalie was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-774514","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\/774514","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=774514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}