{"id":367675,"date":"2026-06-19T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367675\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:50:35","slug":"release-oilers-sign-connor-ungar-to-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367675\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Oilers sign Connor Ungar to one-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have signed goaltender Connor Ungar to a one-year, two-way contract with an AAV of $850,000.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Ungar (6\u20192\u201d, 205 lbs, 24) divided his 2025-26 campaign among three ECHL clubs as well as the Oilers\u2019 AHL affiliate in Bakersfield.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The Calgary native who originally signed with Edmonton out of Brock University in 2024 began the season with the ECHL\u2019s Greensboro Gargoyles where he dressed in four games (2-1-1, 1.42 GAA, .945 SV%) including a shutout versus Tahoe. He was recalled to Fort Wayne in November and won both of his starts for the Komets (1.44 GAA, .944 SV%).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>After being lent to the Orlando Solar Bears in December, Ungar promptly served up a 37-save shutout in his debut at Savannah and earned two more during his 19-game stint with the club (7-8-3, 2.66 GAA, .913 SV%).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>His consistent play in Orlando resulted in a pair of callups to Bakersfield beginning in mid-December. Ultimately making 13 starts with the Condors, Ungar enjoyed a 9-2-2 record with a 2.51 GAA and .923 SV%. He earned his first AHL shutout in January with a 25-save performance versus the Ontario Reign and rang up wins in his first six starts with the Condors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers have signed goaltender Connor Ungar to a one-year, two-way contract with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-367675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}