{"id":201217,"date":"2025-10-09T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201217\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:37:07","slug":"oilers-place-jake-walman-on-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/201217\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers place Jake Walman on injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oilers have placed Walman on injured reserve, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Walman, 28, did not appear in the Oilers&#8217; season opener against the Calgary Flames in a shootout loss.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native had been hopeful to play in the Flames game after missing the majority of pre-season with an undisclosed injury. He ultimately only appeared in one pre-season game.<\/p>\n<p>Oilers bench boss Kris Knoblauch expected Walman to be ready for the season opener before having a setback.<\/p>\n<p>Walman signed a seven-year, $49-million contract extension with the Oilers on Monday. He is coming off a career-high season offensively, tallying 33 assists and 40 points split between the Oilers and Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers are back in action on Saturday against the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oilers have placed Walman on injured reserve, the team announced Thursday. Walman, 28, did not appear in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-201217","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\/201217","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=201217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}