{"id":916792,"date":"2026-10-01T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916792\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:50:09","slug":"edmonton-oilers-place-f-ryan-nugent-hopkins-on-ir-put-savoie-and-regula-on-ltir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/916792\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers place F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on IR, put Savoie and Regula on LTIR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> placed forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> on IR on Thursday, and placed forward Matthew Savoie and defenceman Alec Regula<\/a>r on LTIR.<\/p>\n

The Oilers also called up forward Josh Samanski<\/a> from the AHL\u2019s Bakersfield Condors under emergency conditions.<\/p>\n

Nugent-Hopkins is dealing with a lower-body injury that kept him out of the team\u2019s 6-5 overtime loss to the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> in Tuesday\u2019s season opener. He sustained the injury in practice on Monday. <\/p>\n

Oilers head coach Mike Babcock said Tuesday that Nugent-Hopkins did not have a timeline for a potential return, but also noted that he only expected Nugent-Hopkins to be out short-term.<\/p>\n

The absence of Nugent-Hopkins was a significant blow to the Oilers\u2019 centre depth, and forced the Oilers to split up star forwards Connor McDavid<\/a> and Leon Draisaitl<\/a>, with the two skating on separate lines in the season opener.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Nugent-Hopkins had 20 goals and 56 points in 72 games with the Oilers last season, adding two goals and five points in six playoff games.<\/p>\n

Selected first overall in the 2011 draft, Nugent-Hopkins is entering his 16th season with the Oilers. <\/p>\n

Savoie, 22, missed training camp while recovering from an off-season injury suffered in training. He set career highs across the board last season in his first full-time stint in the NHL with the Oilers, posting 18 goals and 37 points in 82 games.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Regula is recovering from off-season surgery and does not have a timeline for a return to play at this point.He skated in 29 games for the Oilers last season, registering three assists. He missed the entirety of the 2024-2025 season with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

The Oilers said in a release in August<\/a> that updates on Savoie and Regula would be released at the appropriate time for both.<\/p>\n

The Oilers return to action Thursday evening in a rematch against the Canucks in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers placed forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on IR on Thursday, and placed forward Matthew Savoie and defenceman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[712,49,48,23752,79560,316082],"class_list":["post-916792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8476454"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916792","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=916792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}