{"id":793065,"date":"2026-07-10T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:47:09","slug":"ryan-shea-looking-forward-to-chasing-stanley-cup-with-edmonton-oilers-after-finally-landing-long-term-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793065\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Shea looking forward to chasing Stanley Cup with Edmonton Oilers after finally landing long-term deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Shea<\/a> cashed in on July 1, inking a five-year, $20 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, blowing past his career earnings previously of just over $5 million. <\/p>\n

The 29-year-old former Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> defenceman is far from complacent, though, with the opportunity to push for a Stanley Cup in his new home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think from the start of free agency, this is the team me and my agent were talking to,\u201d Shea told Derek Van Diest of NHL.com<\/a>. \u201cWhen he first told me Edmonton, my eyes lit up because after getting to the playoff for the first time in my career in Pittsburgh, it\u2019s literally the best hockey and probably the funnest hockey I\u2019ve ever played.<\/p>\n

\u201cEdmonton is known for their success, and they obviously have high-calibre players and they know how to win and know how to get to that point in the season, so I\u2019m excited. As a competitor, all you want to do is win and battle it out for the best trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shea played his first full year in the NHL last season with the Penguins, recording six goals and 35 points in 80 games and was plus-30 while averaging 18:53 of ice time. He had never previously played in more than 39 games in a season.<\/p>\n

Shea added an assist in six playoff games while averaging 16:50 of ice time before his team was eliminated in the first round.<\/p>\n

Drafted 121st overall by the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> in 2015, Shea has spent his entire three-season career with the Penguins, recording nine goals and 31 points in 150 career games.<\/p>\n

In Edmonton, he will find a role on a blueline that is now without longtime Oiler Darnell Nurse<\/a> who was traded to the San Jose Sharks<\/a> as Shea joined the team last week. <\/p>\n

Shea\u2019s $4 million cap hit is tied with veteran Mattias Ekholm<\/a> for the fourth-highest among defencemen on the team, just behind Connor Murphy<\/a> at $4.1 million. Evan Bouchard<\/a> is by far the highest-paid member of the group with an average annual value of $10.5 million, with Jake Walman<\/a> second on the team at $7 million. <\/p>\n

The 6-foot-1, left-shot defenceman is coming off a one-year, $900,000 contract, the fourth straight one-year deal he played under after the expiration of entry-level contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been taking one-year, two-year type of deals and just betting on myself, and it obviously it ended up going well because I believed in myself,\u201d Shea said. \u201cBut this is a whole different animal. You\u2019re going to be here for five years, and you have a chance to win the Cup and it\u2019s about just getting in there, being a good teammate and performing on the ice, and I\u2019m ready to do that. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going into a new locker room, so you want to go into camp ready to go and show all the guys and the coaching staff that I\u2019m not messing around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oilers will begin a new chapter this season under head coach Mike Babcock. Kris Knoblauch was fired in May after a first-round playoff exit that followed two straight trips to the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

Shea is one of the most significant additions to the Oilers roster this summer, along with goaltender Frederik Andersen<\/a>, who inked a one-year deal worth up to $2.8 million. <\/p>\n

Edmonton largely focused on keeping its roster together ahead of July 1, re-signing Murphy and Jason Dickinson<\/a> on five-year deals before bringing back Kasperi Kapanen<\/a> and Max Jones<\/a> on one-year contracts. <\/p>\n

The pressure appears to be on for the Oilers to find success as Connor McDavid<\/a> entersthe first season of a two-year,$25 million extension signed last summer with the threat of unrestricted free agency looming again in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Shea cashed in on July 1, inking a five-year, $20 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers, blowing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,79560,448,279869,82],"class_list":["post-793065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-shea-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478854","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793065","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=793065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}