{"id":615049,"date":"2026-04-19T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:36:15","slug":"draisaitl-playoff-watch-continues-in-edmonton-oilers-set-to-play-ducks-in-game-1-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615049\/","title":{"rendered":"Draisaitl playoff watch continues in Edmonton, Oilers set to play Ducks in Game 1 | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776627375_326_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl skates with the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Dallas Stars Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 19, 2026 | 11:48 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch won\u2019t yet say whether Leon Draisaitl will play in Game 1 of a first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The German forward sat out the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury sustained March 15. Draisaitl has been skating with the team for the past few days and participated in a full practice Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Knoblauch said Draisaitl still has to be cleared by medical staff to play.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl had 35 goals and 62 assists in 65 games at the time of his injury. He\u2019s compiled 141 points in 96 career playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers center Leon Draisaitl skates with the puck during the second period of an NHL hockey game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,23752,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-615049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-edmonton","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615049","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=615049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}