{"id":431452,"date":"2026-01-23T04:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T04:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T04:29:08","slug":"oilers-draisaitl-returns-to-lineup-vs-penguins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431452\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Draisaitl returns to lineup vs. Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> will have their superstar duo back in action on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/leon-draisaitl\/f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> will make his return to the lineup against the Pittsburgh Penguins after missing the past three games. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old forward took a leave of absence and returned to his family home in Cologne, Germany, on Friday due to what the team described as \u201ca family illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl has 25 goals and 42 assists through 48 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers went 2-1 in his absence, but are coming off a disappointing loss to the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the only team in the league without a three-game win streak this season, Edmonton enters Thursday&#8217;s action second in the Pacific Division with a 25-18-8 record.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch Draisaitl, Connor McDavid and the Oilers take on Sidney Crosby and the Penguins live on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ starting at 9 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers will have their superstar duo back in action on Thursday night. Leon Draisaitl will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-431452","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\/431452","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=431452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}