{"id":509870,"date":"2026-03-02T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T17:48:09","slug":"oilers-hit-hurdle-if-ekman-larsson-their-top-deadline-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509870\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Hit Hurdle If Ekman-Larsson Their Top Deadline Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s not the Oilers who have made the offer (that wasn&#8217;t made clear), it puts Edmonton in a bit of a pickle. First, teams are potentially competing with\u00a0GM Stan Bowman. Second, Ekman-Larsson has to choose Edmonton (which, if he does, would help with hurdle number one). The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nhltradetalk.com\/insider-reveals-the-cost-for-oilers-to-acquire-oliver-ekman-larsson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">high asking price<\/a>\u00a0from Brad Treliving and Ekman-Larsson&#8217;s control over this situation make this anything but a slam dunk deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it&#8217;s not the Oilers who have made the offer (that wasn&#8217;t made clear), it puts Edmonton in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-509870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509870","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=509870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}