{"id":783728,"date":"2026-07-06T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783728\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:31:20","slug":"oilers-sign-spencer-stastney-to-one-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783728\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign Spencer Stastney to one-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> continue to piece together their roster for the 2026-27 season, specifically on the back end, as the team announced on Sunday that it has signed defenseman Spencer Stastney to a one-year contract extension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Stastney, a 26-year-old left-handed shot, will make $1.525 million and will be eligible to test unrestricted free agency next summer. Stastney was a restricted free agent prior to signing this new deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tweet-body_root___JSLI\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"auto\">Serving up some Sunday signings \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Oilers\" class=\"tweet-link_root__31jAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#Oilers<\/a> have signed Shakir Mukhamadullin to a two-year contract extension with an AAV of $ 1.75 million &amp; Spencer Stastney to a one-year contract extension with an AAV of $1.525 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The Oilers acquired Stastney in a mid-season trade with the Nashville Predators in December. Prior to the move Stastney had spent his entire NHL career in the Music City after making his debut during the 2022-23 campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">This past season was the first in which Stastney handled anything approaching a full-time NHL role, as his 66 regular season appearances shattered his prior career high of 23. The Woodbridge, Illinois native recorded 10 points in his 66 games after scoring a pair of goals and handing out eight assists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">In three Stanley Cup Playoff appearances with Edmonton, Stastney was held pointless while skating to a plus-1 rating on an average of 10:59 of time on ice per game as the Oilers were knocked out of the first round in a six-game series against the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/line-combinations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">With Stastney on the ice during 5-on-5 play in the regular season, Edmonton controlled 46.93% of the expected goals and 45.7% of the high-danger scoring chances. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">It has been a busy offseason for Oilers general manager Stan Bowman and his front office, as the club hired Mike Babcock following an NHL investigation as the new head coach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Bowman has re-shaped his defense on the fly this summer, trading Darnell Nurse to the San Jose Sharks for a return including depth blueliner Shakir Mukhamadullin and signing former Pittsburgh Penguins stay-at-home defender Ryan Shea to a four-year contract with a salary cap hit of $4 million. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers continue to piece together their roster for the 2026-27 season, specifically on the back end,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-783728","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\/783728","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=783728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}