{"id":797965,"date":"2026-07-12T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797965\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:16:10","slug":"oilers-sign-forward-colton-dach-to-two-year-2-4-million-extension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797965\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign forward Colton Dach to two-year, $2.4-million extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0Oilers have signed forward Colton Dach to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of US$1.2 million, the NHL club announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dach, who\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks at the 2026 trade deadline, had five goals and eight assists in 61 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward made his\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0debut on March 6 and had two goals and two assists in eight regular-season games for the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>He added an assist in five playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Dach was selected by Chicago in the second round, 62nd overall, at the 2021 NHL draft by Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the 2025-26 season with 219 hits, ranking in the top 15 despite spending time on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778178555_824_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Edmonton\u00a0Oilers have signed forward Colton Dach to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of US$1.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-797965","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\/797965","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=797965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}