{"id":520114,"date":"2026-11-06T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520114\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:52:08","slug":"oilers-podkolzin-receives-game-misconduct-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520114\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Podkolzin receives game misconduct vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/vasily-podkolzin\/863a9f1a-066d-4151-9d97-ff1626bedbee\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"863a9f1a-066d-4151-9d97-ff1626bedbee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> came to his captain&#8217;s defence on Thursday, but ended up with a game misconduct for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Podkolzin was ejected from the <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>&#8216; game against the Anaheim Ducks midway through the first period. He received the misconduct for fighting Drew Helleson, who had checked Connor McDavid into the Anaheim net.<\/p>\n<p>The play came with just under 12 minutes remaining in the period as McDavid drove to the Ducks crease before Helleson bumped the Oilers captain into the post.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid stayed down on the ice as players from both teams converged. Podkolzin then found Helleson in the scrum, starting the fight.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old winger was then assessed a two-minute instigator and five-minute fighting major to go along with the misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Helleson received two minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid eventually went down the tunnel, but did return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier went on to score the game&#8217;s opening goal on Anaheim&#8217;s ensuing five-minute power play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vasily Podkolzin came to his captain&#8217;s defence on Thursday, but ended up with a game misconduct for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-520114","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\/520114","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=520114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}