{"id":177390,"date":"2025-09-29T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:18:09","slug":"oilers-vasily-podkolzin-returning-to-edmonton-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177390\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Vasily Podkolzin returning to Edmonton, coach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Kris Knoblauch confirmed to reporters on Sunday that Podkolzin will return to Edmonton on Tuesday night after taking a leave of absence following his father&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n<p>He added that he expects the winger to suit up for pre-season action on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The Oilers announced that Podkolzin&#8217;s father, Alexander, passed away suddenly last week. He returned to his native Russia on a leave of absence to be with his family. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old signed a three-year, $8.85 million contract extension with the Oilers last Tuesday. The fifth-year NHLer was traded to Edmonton from the Vancouver Canucks ahead of last season and had 24 points over 82 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Kris Knoblauch confirmed to reporters on Sunday that Podkolzin will return to Edmonton on Tuesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-177390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}