9:07 a.m.: Edmonton has confirmed that Brown is sticking around at his reported one-year, $1MM price tag.
8:10 a.m.: The Edmonton Oilers have re-signed winger Connor Brown to a one-year, $1MM extension, per PuckPedia (Twitter link). The deal comes as a slight guaranteed raise from Brown’s one-year, $775K contract last season, though that deal carried $3.225MM in performance bonuses which he met.
Brown’s one-year deal last summer put him in a spot to succeed Klim Kostin’s bruting role next to Connor McDavid. Kostin fit the bill to good effect, with 11 goals and 21 points in 57 games last season. Brown wasn’t able to do the same, going through the first 54 games of the season with just five assists. It wasn’t until game 55 that Brown scored his first goal of the year – and he heated up when he finally broke the curse with four goals and seven points in his final 17 games of the season. Brown concluded his year with just 12 points in 71 games – adding two goals and six points in 17 postseason games.
Despite the abysmal scoring, Brown has earned a raise on his next deal with the Oilers, with the team likely hoping that Brown can be much more productive with the monkey off his back. With Brown signed, Edmonton now sits with $12.933MM in cap space to fill five forward spots and two defense spots.