{"id":536337,"date":"2026-04-02T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536337\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:29","slug":"edmonton-oilers-sign-forward-william-nicholl-to-three-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536337\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers sign forward William Nicholl to three-year, entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 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> have signed forward William Nicholl to a three-year entry-level contract beginning next season, the NHL club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nicholl had 15 goals and 11 assists over 32 games with the Ontario Hockey League\u2019s London Knights this season after returning from injury on Dec. 31. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 19-year-old from Ottawa has 43 goals and 62 assists in 168 regular-season games over four with the Knights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He helped London win the Memorial Cup in last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers selected Nicholl in the seventh round (196th overall) of the 2024 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Knights were down 3-0 in their first-round OHL playoff series against the Greyhounds heading into Wednesday\u2019s Game 4 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward William Nicholl to a three-year entry-level contract beginning next season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-536337","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","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116334577784396114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536337","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=536337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}