{"id":759121,"date":"2026-07-12T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759121\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:30:08","slug":"dach-signs-2-year-2-4-million-contract-with-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759121\/","title":{"rendered":"Dach signs 2-year, $2.4 million contract with Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/colton-dach-8482703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Dach<\/a> signed a two-year, $2.4 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. It has an average annual value of $1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward was a restricted free agent. He had 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in 61 games last season, four points (two goals, two assists) in eight games and one assist in five Stanley Cup Playoff games after the Oilers acquired him with forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jason-dickinson-8477450\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Dickinson<\/a> in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks on March 4 for forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrew-mangiapane-8478233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mangiapane<\/a>\u00a0and a conditional first-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Dach, a second-round pick (No. 62) by the Blackhawks in the 2021 NHL Draft, has 20 points (seven goals, 13 assists) in 86 games for Edmonton and Chicago. His older brother, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kirby-dach-8481523\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Dach<\/a>, is a 25-year-old forward with the Montreal Canadiens and a restricted free agent who <a href=\"\/\\(https:\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/free%20agency\/nhl-players-file-for-salary-arbitration-2026\">filed<\/a> for\u00a0salary arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colton Dach signed a two-year, $2.4 million contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. It has an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-759121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759121","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=759121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}