{"id":924362,"date":"2026-10-07T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924362\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:14:12","slug":"release-oilers-acquire-filip-hallander-from-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/924362\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Oilers acquire Filip Hallander from Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have acquired forward\u00a0Filip Hallander from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenceman Spencer Stastney.<\/p>\n<p>Hallander (6-foot-2, 207 lbs, 26) has appeared in a pair of games with the Pens this season, recording a goal and two assists with a plus\/minus rating of +4.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Sundsvall, Sweden, the left-shot centre was a second-round selection of the Penguins (27th overall) in the 2018 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>After being traded to Toronto in 2020 and returning to Pittsburgh in 2021, he made his NHL debut in the 2021-22 campaign and has skated in a total of 18 games over four seasons, collecting two goals and five assists while averaging 12:04 TOI per game.<\/p>\n<p>Through an additional 107 games with Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton (AHL) he tallied 26 goals and 36 assists for 62 points along with 44 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have acquired forward\u00a0Filip Hallander from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenceman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-924362","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\/924362","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=924362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}