{"id":283191,"date":"2025-11-14T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:39:08","slug":"edmonton-oilers-place-troy-stecher-on-waivers-loan-isaac-howard-to-ahl-as-zach-hymans-return-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283191\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers place Troy Stecher on waivers, loan Isaac Howard to AHL as Zach Hyman\u2019s return looms"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Zach Hyman<\/a>\u2019s return to the lineup looming, the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> made a pair of roster moves on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Oilers placed defenceman Troy Stecher<\/a> on waivers, also loaning rookie forward Isaac Howard<\/a> to the American Hockey League\u2019s Bakersfield Condors.<\/p>\n

Stecher, 31, has dressed in six games for Edmonton this season, failing to record a point while logging an average of 13:37 of ice time.<\/p>\n

The veteran blueliner was acquired by the Oilers via trade from the then-Arizona Coyotes during 2023-24 season, and inked a two-year deal to remain with the team over the summer.<\/p>\n

A pending unrestricted free agent, Stecher has scored 22 goals and 117 points across 566 career games spent with the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, Coyotes, and Oilers.<\/p>\n

Howard, 21, has appeared in 17 games for the Oilers to begin his rookie season, totaling two goals and an assist with 10 penalty minutes in his first taste of NHL action.<\/p>\n

A 2025 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner as the top player in college hockey, Howard was traded to Edmonton over the summer from the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> in exchange for Sam O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n

The Hudson, Wisc. native was the 31st overall selection of the Lightning in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n

Hyman, 33, has been inching closer to making his season debut after undergoing surgery to repair a fractured wrist suffered in Game 4 of last year\u2019s Western Conference Final.<\/p>\n

The Toronto native missed the rest of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with the injury, and has yet to appear for Edmonton to begin the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n

Prior to Wednesday\u2019s game against the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>, head coach Kris Knoblauch revealed that Hyman would return before the team\u2019s current seven-game road trip ends.<\/p>\n

A fifth-round pick of the Florida Panthers<\/a> in the 2010 draft, Hyman has recorded 230 goals and 213 assists across 653 career games split between the Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> and Oilers.<\/p>\n

Edmonton enters play against the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> on Saturday night with an 8-7-4 record, good for fourth place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Zach Hyman\u2019s return to the lineup looming, the Edmonton Oilers made a pair of roster moves on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,79560,128689,448,82,128688,128690],"class_list":["post-283191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-isaac-howard-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8483455","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-troy-stecher-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8479442","tag-zach-hyman-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8475786"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283191","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=283191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}