{"id":621165,"date":"2026-07-12T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/621165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:47:06","slug":"oilers-sign-forward-colton-dach-to-two-year-2-4-million-extension-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/621165\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers sign forward Colton Dach to two-year, $2.4-million extension | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Colton Dach to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of US$1.2 million, the NHL club announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dach, who Edmonton acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks at the 2026 trade deadline, had five goals and eight assists in 61 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old forward made his Edmonton debut on March 6 and had two goals and two assists in eight regular-season games for the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>He added an assist in five playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Dach was selected by Chicago in the second round, 62nd overall, at the 2021 NHL draft by Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>He finished the 2025-26 season with 219 hits, ranking in the top 15 despite spending time on long-term injured reserve with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers have signed forward Colton Dach to a two-year contract extension with an average&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[1360,11097,146,5,6,4687,285,1355,1357,4,60,5945,5950,13998,1354,1361,24377,43,14,104,718,1353,1356],"class_list":["post-621165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl-playoffs","category-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-canadian-ice-hockey-trophies-and-awards","tag-colton-dach","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-hockey","tag-ice-hockey","tag-kirby-dach","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-national-hockey-league-teams","tag-national-hockey-league-trophies-and-awards","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-nhl-seasons","tag-nhl-team-seasons","tag-oeg-inc","tag-seasons-in-american-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-canadian-ice-hockey","tag-seasons-in-ice-hockey","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl","tag-top-level-sports-leagues","tag-top-tier-ice-hockey-leagues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621165","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=621165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}