{"id":192114,"date":"2026-02-24T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:44:10","slug":"oilers-mcdavid-absent-from-practice-draisaitl-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/192114\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; McDavid absent from practice, Draisaitl returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/connor-mcdavid\/8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"8949dceb-26ac-4cb1-b08d-2d5903d75611\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Connor McDavid<\/a>, fresh off being named MVP of the Olympic tournament and helping Canada to a silver medal, was not on the ice with the team in Anaheim. <\/p>\n<p>McDavid led the 2026 Winter Olympics in scoring with two goals and 11 assists. His 13 points set the record for most points of any player in a single Olympic tournament with NHL participation. He was also picked as the tournament&#8217;s best forward.<\/p>\n<p>With Sidney Crosby unavailable due to injury, the Oilers captain also donned the &#8216;C&#8217; for the Canadians in both their semifinal win over Finland and gold-medal game loss to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Though McDavid was absent, the other half of the Oilers&#8217; superstar duo was on the ice Tuesday, as <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/leon-draisaitl\/f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> returned to practice.<\/p>\n<p>Draistaitl captained Germany at the Olympic tournament, recording two goals and five assists over five games. The Germans were eliminated by Slovakia in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n<p>The Oilers return to action Wednesday night in Anaheim against the Ducks, then head to Los Angeles to take on the Kings Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Edmonton (28-22-8) sits second in the Pacific Division with 24 games remaining on its schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid, fresh off being named MVP of the Olympic tournament and helping Canada to a silver medal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-192114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192114","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=192114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}