{"id":550106,"date":"2026-03-28T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:52:12","slug":"release-oilers-sign-defenceman-tomas-cibulka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550106\/","title":{"rendered":"RELEASE: Oilers sign defenceman Tomas Cibulka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced Friday they have signed\u00a0defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract\u00a0beginning in the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Cibulka (6&#8217;0&#8243;, 176 lbs.) has spent the past two seasons with HC Motor Ceske Budejovice in Czechia&#8217;s top league, where he has compiled 42 points (13G, 29A) over 90 games to go along with 10 points (1G, 9A) in 13 post-season appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old native of Ceske Budejovice, Czechia played his junior hockey in Canada, spending three seasons in the QMJHL split between the Val-d\u2019Or Foreurs and Cape Breton Eagles from 2021 to 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In 191 games, he amassed 102 points (18G, 84A) while also helping Czechia capture a bronze medal at the 2024 World Junior Championship, where he scored a pair of goals in seven games at the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers announced Friday they have signed\u00a0defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract\u00a0beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-550106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}