{"id":532513,"date":"2026-03-31T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532513\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:45:43","slug":"oilers-sign-defenceman-tomas-cibulka-to-entry-level-contract-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532513\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign defenceman Tomas Cibulka to entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774946743_910_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Conor Geekie (28) chases Czechia&#8217;s Tomas Cibulka (7) during first period quarterfinal hockey action at the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 27, 2026 | 11:57 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed defenceman Tomas Cibulka to a two-year entry-level contract, the NHL club announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is set to begin next season.<\/p>\n<p>Cibulka, a six-foot, 176-pound defender, spent the past two seasons with his hometown team, HC Motor Ceske Budejovice in Czechia\u2019s top league.<\/p>\n<p>He had 42 points (13 goals, 29 assists) and 57 penalty minutes over 90 regular-season games and 10 points (one goal, nine assists) in 13 post-season games for the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Conor Geekie (28) chases Czechia&#8217;s Tomas Cibulka (7) during first period quarterfinal hockey action at the IIHF&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-532513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116322920679205193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532513","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=532513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}