{"id":116419,"date":"2026-07-04T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/116419\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:59:10","slug":"oilers-sign-shakir-mukhamadullin-to-two-year-contract-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/116419\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Sign Shakir Mukhamadullin To Two-Year Contract \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oilers have taken care of one of their arbitration-eligible restricted free agents one day before the filing deadline.\u00a0 Agent Dan Milstein of Gold Star announced (Twitter link<\/a>) that Edmonton has signed Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a> to a two-year, $3.5MM contract ($1.75MM AAV).\u00a0 PuckPedia adds (Twitter link<\/a>) that the blueliner will receive $1.55MM in salary this coming season plus a $200K signing bonus with a $1.75MM salary in 2027-28, an amount that will also serve as his qualifying offer at that time.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old is joining his third NHL team already.\u00a0 A first-round pick by the Devils back in 2020, he never wound up playing a game for them as three years later, he was a key part of the trade that saw New Jersey add Timo Meier<\/a> from San Jose.\u00a0 Back on Wednesday, Mukhamadullin was then the key part of the return in the trade that saw Darnell Nurse<\/a> get moved to the Sharks.<\/p>\n

Last season, Mukhamadullin played in 50 games with the Sharks, picking up five goals and seven assists along with 63 blocked shots while averaging 17:09 per contest of playing time.\u00a0 He also missed time with three separate upper-body injuries.\u00a0 Still, that was the most single-season NHL action he had, as he came into 2025-26 with just 33 appearances at the top level.<\/p>\n

As things stand, Mukhamadullin projects to have a similar role with Edmonton as he did with San Jose, that being one in more of a third-pairing or even reserve role at times.\u00a0 Mattias Ekholm and Jake Walman return as the top-two left-shot options while Ryan Shea was quickly signed to a five-year deal following the Nurse trade and will slot in ahead of Mukhamadullin on the depth chart as well.\u00a0 One of them could move over to their off-side to make room for Mukhamadullin or the young blueliner could get shifted to the right to see if that helps earn him more playing time.\u00a0 The short-term nature of the deal \u2013 one that amounts to a second bridge contract \u2013 signals that both sides want to get a look at how he\u2019ll fit in before working out a longer-term agreement.\u00a0 Mukhamadullin will have one year of RFA eligibility remaining when this contract expires.<\/p>\n

With this signing, the Oilers now have just under $6.5MM remaining in cap space for the upcoming season, per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 They still have to re-sign forward Colton Dach and defenseman Spencer Stastney, the latter being arbitration-eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oilers have taken care of one of their arbitration-eligible restricted free agents one day before the filing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[52,263,39324,10735],"class_list":["post-116419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-shakir-mukhamadullin","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}