{"id":942757,"date":"2026-10-23T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942757\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T01:42:11","slug":"edmonton-oilers-activate-ryan-nugent-hopkins-from-injured-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942757\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers activate Ryan Nugent-Hopkins from injured reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers activated veteran centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins off injured reserve before their game Thursday night against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran centre has yet to play a game this season<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Oct 22, 2026 7:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"A hockey player in a white and blue jersey high-fives his teammates who are on the bench.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792719731_783_default.jpg\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has yet to play this season after sustaining a lower-body injury. (Gregory Bull\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The Edmonton Oilers activated veteran centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins off injured reserve before their game Thursday night against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Nugent-Hopkins has yet to play this season after sustaining a lower-body injury in practice before Edmonton&#8217;s season-opening game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">He joins an Oilers team that is off to a fantastic start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Edmonton entered the game against the defending Stanley Cup champions with a 7-1-1 record, and captain Connor McDavid holding a significant lead in the scoring race with 26 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">Nugent-Hopkins is in his 16th season with the Oilers after being selected by the team first overall at the 2011 NHL draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">The forward from Burnaby, B.C., had 20 goals last year \u2014 hitting that mark for the seventh time in his career \u2014 while adding 36 assists over 72 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-b3GxD html-paragraph\">He entered Thursday&#8217;s action with 804 points (291 goals, 513 assists) over 1,031 regular-season games with Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7<a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton The Edmonton Oilers activated veteran centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins off injured reserve before their game Thursday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-942757","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\/942757","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=942757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}