{"id":914314,"date":"2026-09-29T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914314\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:22:11","slug":"oilers-nugent-hopkins-out-for-opener-against-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/914314\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Nugent-Hopkins out for opener against Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The injury bug didn&#8217;t waste any time taking a bite out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nugent-Hopkins is sidelined with a lower-body injury, according to the coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old had 20 goals and 36 assists for 56 points in 72 games for the Oilers last season. <\/p>\n<p>The Oilers will start their season of high expectations in Vancouver. Coverage of the game begins on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+ at 7 p.m. ET \/ 10 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The injury bug didn&#8217;t waste any time taking a bite out of the Edmonton Oilers. Nugent-Hopkins is sidelined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-914314","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\/914314","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=914314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}