{"id":536942,"date":"2026-04-02T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536942\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:33:13","slug":"oilers-sign-forward-owen-michaels-to-one-year-entry-level-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536942\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign forward Owen Michaels to one-year entry-level contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Owen Michaels to a one-year entry-level contract for next season, the NHL club announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Michaels had 13 goals and 13 assists in 39 NCAA games with Western Michigan this past season while serving as team captain.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He was named the Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player in 2025 after leading Western Michigan to its first U.S. college title.<\/p>\n<p>He capped his tournament with two goals in a 6-2 win over Boston University in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old from Northville, Mich., had 33 goals and 33 assists in 119 games over three seasons with the Broncos.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers sat second in the Pacific Division and looked to build on a four-game winning streak when they hosted the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Owen Michaels to a one-year entry-level contract for next season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[1689,96,198,146,5300,5,4,24,19685,2294],"class_list":{"0":"post-536942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-boston-university","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-oilers","16":"tag-owen-michaels","17":"tag-western-michigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116336315953562406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536942","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=536942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}