{"id":167201,"date":"2025-09-25T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167201\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:03:08","slug":"edmonton-oilers-forward-vasily-podkolzin-takes-leave-of-absence-after-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/167201\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers forward Vasily Podkolzin takes leave of absence after father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">EDMONTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/vasily-podkolzin\/8481617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/vasily-podkolzin\/8481617\" target=\"_blank\">Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> is taking a leave of absence after his father, Alexander, died suddenly Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Oilers announced Wednesday that Podkolzin is returning home to Russia to be with his family, asking for privacy on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Podkolzin had signed a three-year contract extension worth US$2.95 million annually on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 24-year-old from Moscow tallied eight goals and 16 assists in 82 regular-season games last season, adding three goals and seven assists in 22 playoff games during the Oilers\u2019 run to the Stanley Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Podkolzin arrived in Edmonton via trade from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canucks selected Podkolzin with the 10th pick of the 2019 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Edmonton Oilers forward Vasily Podkolzin is taking a leave of absence after his father, Alexander, died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-167201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}