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Defenseman Mattias Ekholm<\/a> is expected to be sidelined 1-2 weeks after being helped off the ice in the opening minute of the third period of a 6-5 shootout win against the Carolina Hurricanes, when his head hit the ice following a check into the boards from Hurricanes forward William Carrier<\/a>. \u201cObviously, it didn\u2019t look very pretty, his head slammed on the ice,\u201d Oilers coach Mike\u00a0Babcock said. “He’s a bit of a Viking anyway, so he\u2019ll be OK in a couple of weeks or a week or 10 days or whatever. But someone else gets a chance.” The Oilers host the Maple Leafs on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Defenseman Mattias Ekholm is expected to be sidelined 1-2 weeks after being helped off the ice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-943549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943549","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=943549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}