{"id":621931,"date":"2026-04-21T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:33:08","slug":"oilers-adam-henrique-out-for-game-2-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/621931\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Adam Henrique out for Game 2 against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"431bb448-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/adam-henrique\/431bb448-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adam Henrique<\/a> won&#8217;t play Game 2 on Wednesday against the Anaheim Ducks (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT), head coach Kris Knoblauch told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Either Josh Samanski or Curtis Lazar will slot in for Henrique on Edmonton&#8217;s third line, while Matt Savoie will get additional time on the penalty kill, Knoblauch <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PatrickCPresent\/status\/2046645948357771612?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Henrique left Monday&#8217;s 4-3 Game 1 win early in the first period after a collision with teammate Kasperi Kapanen.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared to clutch his knee before heading down the tunnel. The 36-year-old ultimately logged just 2:56 of ice time before being forced to exit.<\/p>\n<p>Henrique, of Brantford, Ont., played in 65 games for Edmonton this season, scoring three goals and collecting 15 assists in just over 13 minutes of action per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s game marked just the fifth time in Henrique&#8217;s 16-year NHL career that he has reached the Stanley Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Henrique was a consistent presence in Edmonton&#8217;s lineup during its runs to the Cup Final in 2024 and 2025. In 39 career post-season games with the Oilers entering this year&#8217;s playoffs, he had eight goals and six assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Henrique won&#8217;t play Game 2 on Wednesday against the Anaheim Ducks (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-621931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621931","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=621931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}