{"id":930696,"date":"2026-10-12T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:30:09","slug":"a-time-to-give-thanks-oilers-fans-name-reasons-behind-a-hot-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/930696\/","title":{"rendered":"A Time to Give Thanks: Oilers Fans Name Reasons Behind a Hot Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be fans who maintain that Babcock should never have been allowed back into the NHL. That said, you can&#8217;t deny the early results, nor the fact that Babcock seems both serious in his approach and lighter as a person. He&#8217;s joking with media, there are signs his relationship with the players is positive, and his support of everyone on the roster, particuarly the younger and depth players is not what naysayers expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be fans who maintain that Babcock should never have been allowed back into the NHL. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,453,36386],"class_list":["post-930696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-evan-bouchard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930696","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=930696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}