Oilers injury update: Leon Draisaitl to miss remainder of regular season with lower-body injury<\/p>\n
Draisaitl was left shaken up in the first period after taking a seemingly innocuous hit from Predators winger Ozzy Wiesblatt along the boards. Wiesblatt laid a hit on Draisaitl that saw him collide with the boards, and immediately sent him limping down the tunnel to the Oilers locker room.<\/p>\n
He would return later in the period for two shifts \u2014 one lasting 52 seconds and another 41 seconds \u2014 but he wouldn\u2019t return in the second or third periods.<\/p>\n
After the game, Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch said there were no \u201cimmediate red flags\u201d<\/a> from the training staff following Draisaitl\u2019s two shifts, but indicated he could miss some time.<\/p>\n \u201cHe got checked out, didn\u2019t feel right\u2026 felt like he could play on it,\u201d said Knoblauch after the Oilers held on for a 3-1 win. \u201cThe medical staff looked at him, and they were comfortable with him trying it out.<\/p>\n \u201cHe went out, and he just didn\u2019t feel quite right. The fact the medical staff said \u2018it didn\u2019t seem too bad, no immediate red flags,\u2019 tell me it shouldn\u2019t be a really long injury. There might be some time off, but we\u2019ll find out later.\u201d<\/p>\n As it turns out, there was more to be concerned with \u2014 so much so that the team has shut him down for the Oilers\u2019 remaining 14 games of the regular season.<\/p>\n Draisaitl has missed few games during his career, and has often been highlighted as a player with a high pain threshold and an ability to play through injuries. He did so playing on a sprained ankle in the 2022 playoffs<\/a>, and in the 2024 playoffs<\/a>, a broken rib and a broken finger.<\/p>\n The German missed 11 games toward the end of the 2024-25 season, including the final seven regular season games, but has otherwise missed only a handful of games in his career.<\/p>\n Edmonton will begin life without Draisaitl Tuesday night when they host the San Jose Sharks<\/a>.Zach Laing is Oilersnation\u2019s managing editor, and The Nation Network\u2019s news director. He also makes up one-half of the Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report<\/a>. He can be followed on X at @zjlaing<\/a>, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.ARTICLE PRESENTED BY bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oilers injury update: Leon Draisaitl to miss remainder of regular season with lower-body injury Draisaitl was left shaken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-543202","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\/543202","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=543202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}