{"id":628675,"date":"2026-04-25T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628675\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:10:08","slug":"mcdavid-draisaitl-sit-out-oilers-practice-ahead-of-game-4-against-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/628675\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid, Draisaitl sit out Oilers practice ahead of Game 4 against Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Oilers captain <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/connor-mcdavid\/8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Connor McDavid<\/a> and top forward <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/leon-draisaitl\/f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> didn&#8217;t skate in Edmonton&#8217;s practice ahead of Game 4 of their first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said they were having maintenance days.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks lead the best-of-seven series 2-1 following a 7-4 victory in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid scored his first goal and also had an assist for his first multi-point game of the playoffs. He rolled his ankle in the second period of Game 2, but finished the game.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl missed the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury. He leads the Oilers in playoff points with a goal and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Jason Dickinson skated after sitting out the second and third games of the series with a lower-body injury. He scored two goals in Game 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. \u2014 Oilers captain Connor McDavid and top forward Leon Draisaitl didn&#8217;t skate in Edmonton&#8217;s practice ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-628675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628675","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=628675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}