{"id":917202,"date":"2026-10-02T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T00:36:11","slug":"oilers-zach-hyman-out-approximately-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917202\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Zach Hyman out approximately two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winger <a data-player=\"df68fd1a-d52d-4a74-b762-0aafada4a622\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/zach-hyman\/df68fd1a-d52d-4a74-b762-0aafada4a622\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Hyman<\/a> is set to miss approximately two weeks with an upper-body injury, head coach Mike Babcock told reporters ahead of Thursday&#8217;s game against the Vancouver Canucks (Sportsnet and Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>According to Michaels, Hyman suffered the injury in the Oilers&#8217; pre-season finale against the Calgary Flames. He did not travel with the team to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Hyman played in the Oilers&#8217; opening-night showdown against the Canucks \u2014 a 6-5 overtime loss \u2014 but failed to record a point in his 20:33 of ice time. He had three shots on goal and two hits.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old missed time with injuries over the course of last season, suiting up for only 58 regular-season games and tallying 31 goals and 21 assists. <\/p>\n<p>The Toronto native also endured a trying year in the 2024-25 season. Though he missed only nine games, his scoring totals dropped, finishing with only 27 goals and 17 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton is looking to get back into the win column after a high-scoring home game against the Canucks on opening night. The Oilers fell behind 5-2 in the third period, but managed to rally back before eventually losing in overtime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winger Zach Hyman is set to miss approximately two weeks with an upper-body injury, head coach Mike Babcock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-917202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917202","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=917202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}