{"id":395546,"date":"2026-01-08T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:25:16","slug":"oilers-adam-henrique-placed-on-ir-not-expected-back-before-olympic-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395546\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Adam Henrique placed on IR, not expected back before Olympic break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> may have snapped a two-game skid on Tuesday, but the victory did not come without a cost.<\/p>\n<p>Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/adam-henrique\/431bb448-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"431bb448-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Adam Henrique<\/a> was placed on injured reserve on Wednesday, after leaving the night prior after just one period of play against the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran forward is not expected to return until after the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p>Henrique left Tuesday&#8217;s 6-2 win after one early first-period shift in which he blocked a shot.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said the 35-year-old will be out &#8220;for a little while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A loss for Edmonton to be sure, as Henrique had yet to miss a game this season until being placed on IR. The lineup mainstay has logged eight assists and two goals through his 43 appearances with an average ice time of 13:50 per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, his 235 face-off wins this season rank second on the Oilers, behind only Leon Draisaitl, and his 57 blocked shots sit fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-16-6 Oilers return to action on Thursday, visiting the Winnipeg Jets with hopes of extending their lead atop the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers may have snapped a two-game skid on Tuesday, but the victory did not come without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-395546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395546","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=395546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}