{"id":177271,"date":"2025-09-29T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177271\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T08:36:03","slug":"oilers-vasily-podkolzin-returning-to-edmonton-coach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/177271\/","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":177272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-177271","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\/177271","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=177271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}