{"id":954714,"date":"2026-11-01T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954714\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T20:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T20:20:15","slug":"oilers-isaac-howard-out-against-rangers-appears-to-have-avoided-major-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954714\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Isaac Howard out against Rangers, appears to have avoided major injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> will be down a forward Sunday \u2014 but potentially not much longer than that.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player=\"11beeba8-3703-4d5c-9c11-b904559d7039\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/isaac-howard\/11beeba8-3703-4d5c-9c11-b904559d7039\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Isaac Howard<\/a> won&#8217;t play against the New York Rangers (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 6 p.m. ET \/ 5 p.m. ABT) but appears to have avoided a serious injury after exiting Saturday&#8217;s game against the New York Islanders following a knee-on-knee collision with Emil Heineman, Sportsnet&#8217;s Mark Spector <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsnetSpec\/status\/2116944390249988254\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re hoping for a recovery day (Sunday), and then if he doesn&#8217;t (feel better), we&#8217;ll get on with the medical part of looking into it. But they think it&#8217;s favourable,\u201d Babcock told reporters post-game Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Heineman, who threw his stick as he left the game, was handed a five-minute major and game misconduct on the play, but the Oilers could not convert.<\/p>\n<p>Howard had to be helped off the ice, unable to put any weight on his left leg after the hit occurred less than three minutes after puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old had one goal and two assists in 12 games entering Saturday&#8217;s action.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton wraps its road trip against the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers will be down a forward Sunday \u2014 but potentially not much longer than that. Isaac&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-954714","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\/954714","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=954714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}