{"id":943867,"date":"2026-10-24T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:22:08","slug":"oilers-place-devon-levi-on-injured-reserve-recall-matt-tomkins-from-ahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943867\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers place Devon Levi on injured reserve, recall Matt Tomkins from AHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton placed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/devon-levi\/88ea9486-2a72-4cd8-a337-1546ac5c97bd\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"88ea9486-2a72-4cd8-a337-1546ac5c97bd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devon Levi<\/a> on injured reserve Friday after the netminder missed Oilers practice earlier in the day and recalled Matt Tomkins from AHL Bakersfield under emergency conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers did not announce what forced Levi onto the IR.<\/p>\n<p>Levi had taken over the starting duties in the Oilers net during the club&#8217;s hot start and posted a 6-1-0 record through his first seven games of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old also owns a 3.11 goals-against average and a .887 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Levi made 27 saves in Edmonton&#8217;s 6-5 shootout win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomkins has six games of NHL experience, taking the ice with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2023-24 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old has a 2.40 goals-against average and .909 save percentage in three games with Bakersfield this season.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton already has free-agent goaltending addition Frederik Andersen on the injured reserve. Tristan Jarry will start Saturday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton placed Devon Levi on injured reserve Friday after the netminder missed Oilers practice earlier in the day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-943867","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\/943867","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=943867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}