{"id":481796,"date":"2026-03-03T00:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/481796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:33:17","slug":"edmonton-oilers-to-acquire-defenceman-connor-murphy-from-chicago-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/481796\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers to acquire defenceman Connor Murphy from Chicago Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> made an addition to their blue line on Monday with the team acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-murphy\/8476473\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Murphy<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, the team announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chicago will retain 50 per cent of Murphy\u2019s $4.4 million cap hit this season and receives a second-round draft pick in the 2028 NHL Draft in return for the defenceman.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TRADE \ud83d\udd04 The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Oilers<\/a> have acquired defenceman Connor Murphy from the Blackhawks in exchange for a second-round selection in the 2028 NHL Draft. Chicago will retain 50% of Murphy&#8217;s $4.4 million salary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7fK3nkqFwx\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7fK3nkqFwx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/2028606322258870444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Murphy, 32, is in the final season of a four-year, $17.6 million contract will become an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot-4, right-shot defenceman has four goals and 13 points in 60 games with the Blackhawks this season while averaging 16:34 of ice time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Drafted 20th overall by the Arizona Coyotes in 2011, Murphy has 47 goals and 173 points in 805 career games split between the Coyotes and Blackhawks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Dublin, Ohio native represented the United States five times at the World Championship, taking home bronze medals in 2015 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonton sits third in the Pacific Division entering Monday\u2019s action with a 29-24-8 record. They are three points behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> and four points behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> at the top of the division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> on Tuesday in their final game before the NHL Trade Deadline on March 6.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers made an addition to their blue line on Monday with the team acquiring Connor Murphy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462],"tags":[4759,32837,57768,32610,5,4,465,466],"class_list":{"0":"post-481796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-draft","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-16","10":"tag-connor-murphy-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476473","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-draft","15":"tag-nhl-entry-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116162435813570214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}