{"id":183717,"date":"2026-02-19T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:32:15","slug":"matt-savoie-is-going-to-be-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/183717\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Savoie Is Going To Be Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some context people seem to be skipping over; the NHL is in the middle of its Olympic break. Games don\u2019t resume until February 25th. Established veterans? They get most of February off \u2014 they\u2019ve earned it. But rookies don\u2019t get the same extended vacation. They get a couple of weeks, maybe, and then they\u2019re expected to say \u201cthank you, coach\u201d and get to work. Sending Savoie to Bakersfield isn\u2019t a punishment or a message, but a maintenance plan. The Oilers want him sharp, in game shape, and playing real hockey when the lights come back on \u2014 not rusty and stiff from sitting idle for three weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s some context people seem to be skipping over; the NHL is in the middle of its Olympic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-183717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}