{"id":235623,"date":"2026-03-25T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235623\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:42:27","slug":"oilers-recall-james-hamblin-from-condors-on-emergency-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/235623\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers recall James Hamblin from Condors on emergency basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Hamblin has been called up from the Bakersfield Condors. The 26-year-old Edmonton native has scored 23 goals and 14 assists in 54 games in the AHL. Hamblin played a combined 41 NHL games in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 seasons, scoring two career goals and three total points.<\/p>\n<p>Sportnet\u2019s Mark <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsnetSpec\/status\/2036587298712903863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spector said<\/a> he believes that Hamblin is the 13th forward and won\u2019t be in the lineup against the Mammoth. The Oilers have a two-game roadtrip beginning in Utah on Tuesday night, and then heading to Nevada to face the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been a productive player at the AHL level. This season, he\u2019s scored the second-most goals on the Condors and the sixth-most points. Last season, he had a career high of 45 points.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton only have 12 forwards currently available on the roster due to the myriad of injuries their lineup has faced lately. Leon <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/news\/edmonton-oilers-lineup-update-leon-draisaitl-placed-long-term-injured-reserve-roby-jarventie-recalled-bakersfield-condors-kasperi-kapanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Draisaitl<\/a> and Trent Frederic have been subtracted from the lineup from last week, and there\u2019s no timeline for Frederic\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Lazar has been participating in practices and is nearing a return next week in April. He hasn\u2019t played since March 3 against the Ottawa Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Josh Samanski, Max Jones, and Roby J\u00e4rventie are all in the lineup, despite playing more games with the Condors than the Oilers this season.<\/p>\n<p>Mattias Janmark is out for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Hamblin went undrafted and walked onto the Bakersfield Condors after five seasons of junior hockey with the Medicine Hat Tigers. In his 20-year-old season, he scored 36 goals and 92 points in 63 games.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Menzies is an Oilersnation columnist and has been the play-by-play voice of the Bonnyville Pontiacs in the AJHL since 2019. With seven years news experience as the Editor-at-Large of Lakeland Connect in Bonnyville, he also collects vinyl, books, and stomach issues. Follow him on X at Menzies_4.<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE PRESENTED BY bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Hamblin has been called up from the Bakersfield Condors. The 26-year-old Edmonton native has scored 23 goals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-235623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235623","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=235623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}