{"id":889362,"date":"2026-09-09T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889362\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:24:09","slug":"release-oilers-sign-alex-formenton-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/889362\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Oilers sign Alex Formenton to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Alex Formenton to a one-year contract with an AAV of $850,000.<\/p>\n<p>Formenton (6\u20192\u201d, 195 lbs, 26) spent three seasons over the past four years with HC Ambri-Piotta in Switzerland, recording 33 goals and 19 assists for 52 points over 88 games.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Barrie, Ontario and playing his junior hockey with the London Knights, Formenton was a second-round selection of the Ottawa Senators (47th overall) in the 2017 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>After making his NHL debut in 2017-18 and seeing action in 29 games over the next four seasons, the speedy left-shot winger skated in a career-high 79 games for the Sens in 2021-22, collecting 18 goals and 14 assists along with 59 penalty minutes. He ranked second among Senators forwards with 150:27 spent on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n<p>Through 109 career games, Formenton has registered 23 goals and 16 assists for 39 points while averaging 14:24 TOI per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Alex Formenton to a one-year contract with an AAV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-889362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889362","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=889362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}