{"id":523137,"date":"2026-03-08T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:55:08","slug":"oilers-ekholm-a-game-time-decision-vs-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523137\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Ekholm a game-time decision vs. Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sportsnet&#8217;s Gene Principe reported that the defenceman was listed as a game-time decision. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/spencer-stastney\/b57ef464-d128-49c6-8560-8a8ae51280dd\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"b57ef464-d128-49c6-8560-8a8ae51280dd\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Spencer Stastney<\/a> was seen skating in Ekholm\u2019s place alongside Evan Bouchard on Edmonton\u2019s top defence pairing.<\/p>\n<p>Ekholm ranks sixth on the Oilers with 33 points (six goals, 27 assists). He\u2019s suited up for all 63 Oilers games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old has tallied two goals and 10 points on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Samanski has been recalled from AHL Bakersfield and is available Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton sits third in the Pacific Division with 68 points, just four back of Vegas and five short of division-leader Anaheim.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sportsnet&#8217;s Gene Principe reported that the defenceman was listed as a game-time decision. Spencer Stastney was seen skating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-523137","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\/523137","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=523137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}