{"id":622010,"date":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","slug":"henrique-wont-play-game-2-for-oilers-because-of-lower-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622010\/","title":{"rendered":"Henrique won’t play Game 2 for Oilers because of lower-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henrique started Game 1 as the center on the fourth line between Colton Dach<\/a>\u00a0and Trent Frederic<\/a>. He had 15 points (three goals, 12 assists) in 65 games this season.<\/p>\n

Either Curtis Lazar<\/a> or Josh Samanski<\/a>\u00a0will be in the lineup for Game 2.<\/p>\n

“Samanski adds a little bit more speed to our lineup and he was playing with a line that was playing pretty well towards the end of the season with Dach and Frederic,” Knoblauch said. “Lazar gives you a little more aggressiveness and a little more physicality, and obviously that’s important in the playoffs. He also a little more options on face-offs on that right side.”<\/p>\n

Lazar had six points (four goals, two assists) in 45 games.\u00a0Samanski had four points (two goals, two assists) in 24 games.<\/p>\n

“It was tough taking those guys out (for Game 1),”\u00a0Knoblauch said. “You know during the playoffs there’s going to be a lot more injuries and guys are banged up. Whether you want a different look or different chemistry with a line, you knew there was going to be some lineup changes. It came a little bit sooner than we’d like with an injury, but we’ve got some guys that are very capable of getting back in that lineup and contribute.<\/p>\n

“Not only are they good players, but they were playing really good at the end of the season, so we’ve got good options.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henrique started Game 1 as the center on the fourth line between Colton Dach\u00a0and Trent Frederic. He had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-622010","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\/622010","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=622010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}