{"id":577860,"date":"2026-04-02T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577860\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:08:08","slug":"oilers-trent-frederic-to-return-to-lineup-vs-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/577860\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Trent Frederic to return to lineup vs. Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oilers will have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/trent-frederic\/41acc046-28ad-430f-94e5-604d7f35daff\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"41acc046-28ad-430f-94e5-604d7f35daff\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trent Frederic<\/a> back in the lineup for Thursday night&#8217;s game (9 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. MT, Sportsnet West, Sportsnet+) against the Chicago Blackhawks. <\/p>\n<p>Frederic, 28, has not played since a March 19 game against the Florida Panthers due to an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just excited to get playing again,&#8221; Frederic told reporters Thursday morning. &#8220;I think it was not ideal to take a break, I thought I was playing well. We did a lot of good stuff, and I think I&#8217;m in better shape than before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Frederic has struggled in Edmonton since being acquired prior to the trade deadline last season, notching five goals in 90 regular-season and post-season games.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-three, 221-pound forward inked an eight-year, $30.8-million extension with the club ahead of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He has just four goals and two assists while averaging 10:45 of ice time in 67 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just think I&#8217;m skating better, being physical, more engaged,&#8221; added Frederic on what he liked about his game before getting hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Oilers will have Trent Frederic back in the lineup for Thursday night&#8217;s game (9 p.m. ET, 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-577860","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\/577860","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=577860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}