{"id":519833,"date":"2026-11-05T21:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519833\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T21:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:34:42","slug":"oilers-matt-tomkins-slated-to-start-against-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/519833\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Matt Tomkins: Slated to start against Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/2879639\/tomkins\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomkins<\/a> is slated to start Thursday&#8217;s home game against the Ducks, <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/EDM\/edmonton-oilers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oilers<\/a> play-by-play announcer Jack Michaels reports.<\/p>\n<p>Tomkins made his first NHL appearance since the 2023-24 campaign during Sunday&#8217;s road matchup against the Rangers, and he turned aside 27 of 28 shots during the 4-1 victory. He&#8217;s set to start for the second time in the Oilers&#8217; last three games Thursday and will face a tough opponent in the Ducks, who rank sixth in the NHL with 3.60 goals per game to begin the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomkins is slated to start Thursday&#8217;s home game against the Ducks, Oilers play-by-play announcer Jack Michaels reports. Tomkins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2070,822,20863],"class_list":["post-519833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-fantasy-hockey","tag-matt-tomkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519833","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=519833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}