{"id":928308,"date":"2026-10-10T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928308\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:08:10","slug":"oilers-walman-out-hallander-in-against-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/928308\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Walman out, Hallander in against Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach Mike Babcock <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsnetSpec\/status\/2108993330420015512\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsnetSpec\/status\/2108993330420015512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> he is looking for a \u201cmore assertive\u201d game from Mukhamadullin, who will have an opportunity to show what he can bring to Edmonton\u2019s defence against the <a data-team=\"san-jose-sharks\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose-sharks\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> on Rogers Saturday Night Hockey (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 4 p.m. ET \/ 2 p.m. MT).<\/p>\n<p>Up front, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/filip-hallander\/583d26f2-2efa-49a2-ad1f-7e64fc34c99e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"583d26f2-2efa-49a2-ad1f-7e64fc34c99e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Filip Hallander<\/a> will draw into the lineup, while Max Jones will come out.<\/p>\n<p>Hallander will make his debut after being acquired from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday in exchange for defenceman Spencer Stastney.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as the Oilers deal with injuries to several forwards, including Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Zach Hyman, Matthew Savoie, Jason Dickinson and Mattias Janmark.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Hallander had a goal and two assists in two games with Pittsburgh this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Mike Babcock told reporters he is looking for a \u201cmore assertive\u201d game from Mukhamadullin, who will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-928308","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\/928308","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=928308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}