{"id":276579,"date":"2026-04-20T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276579\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:22:43","slug":"oilers-keeping-mum-on-leon-draisaitls-status-for-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276579\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers keeping mum on Leon Draisaitl&#8217;s status for Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> head coach Kris Knoblauch won&#8217;t yet say whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/leon-draisaitl\/f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"f7bb7a51-75d3-4f16-8491-a762acfb874a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> will play in Game 1 of a first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The German forward sat out the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury sustained March 15. Draisaitl has been skating with the team for the past few days and participated in a full practice Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Knoblauch said Draisaitl still has to be cleared by medical staff to play on Monday (Sportsnet, Sportsnet+, 10 p.m. ET \/ 7 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl had 35 goals and 62 assists in 65 games at the time of his injury. He&#8217;s compiled 141 points in 96 career playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton reached the Stanley Cup final the last two years and lost both times to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers host the Ducks in the first two games before the best-of-seven series flips to Anaheim for the third and fourth games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch won&#8217;t yet say whether Leon Draisaitl will play in Game 1 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-276579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276579","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=276579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}