{"id":286314,"date":"2026-04-26T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:00:27","slug":"edmontons-mcdavid-draisaitl-sit-out-practice-ahead-of-game-4-against-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/286314\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton&#8217;s McDavid, Draisaitl sit out practice ahead of Game 4 against Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"posted\">By Canadian Press on April 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dc7b6fbcd3f894e5f069bbd813c6e7798001a8c80d23fdb41d7404fd94febf1a-400x267.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid, centre, is congratulated by teammates after scoring during the third period of Game 3 in the first round of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoffs series against the Anaheim Ducks, Friday, April 24, 2026, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo\/Mark J. Terrill)<\/p>\n<p>ANAHEIM \u2014 Oilers captain Connor McDavid and top forward Leon Draisaitl didn\u2019t skate in Edmonton\u2019s practice ahead of Game 4 of their first-round playoff series against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks lead the best-of-seven series 2-1 following a 7-4 victory in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid scored his first goal and also had an assist for his first multi-point game of the playoffs. He rolled his ankle in the second period of Game 2, but finished the game.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl missed the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury. He leads the Oilers in playoff points with a goal and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Jason Dickinson skated after sitting out the second and third games of the series with a lower-body injury. He scored two goals in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>10<br \/> -9   <br class=\"clr\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Canadian Press on April 25, 2026. Edmonton Oilers centre Connor McDavid, centre, is congratulated by teammates after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-286314","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\/286314","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=286314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}