{"id":917004,"date":"2026-10-01T20:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:50:18","slug":"projected-lineup-hymans-absence-adds-to-injury-woes-ahead-of-canucks-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917004\/","title":{"rendered":"PROJECTED LINEUP: Hyman&#8217;s absence adds to injury woes ahead of Canucks rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 Early injury woes continue on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers will be down another veteran leader for Thursday&#8217;s rematch with the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena after Head Coach Mike Babcock revealed\u00a0that Zach Hyman didn&#8217;t make the trip and could be out for up to two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The winger sustained an upper-body injury during Edmonton&#8217;s final pre-season contest against Calgary back on Saturday, but it wasn&#8217;t enough to keep him out of Tuesday&#8217;s season-opening loss to the\u00a0Canucks, where he was held scoreless with three shots, two hits and a plus-1 rating over 20:33 of ice time, including 5:04 on the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Hyman&#8217;s ailment adds to an already-packed injury list for the Oilers early this season, including Nugent-Hopkins, who was injured near the end of the final practice of Training Camp earlier this week and didn&#8217;t suit up on Tuesday before being placed on Injured Reserve this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Samanski was recalled from the Bakersfield Condors on an emergency basis to fill No. 93&#8217;s place and will centre the fourth line with Isaac Howard &amp; Trent Frederic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 Early injury woes continue on the West Coast. The Edmonton Oilers will be down another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-917004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917004","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=917004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}