{"id":520202,"date":"2026-11-06T04:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520202\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:34:08","slug":"oilers-emergency-goaltender-brett-epp-serves-as-backup-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/520202\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; emergency goaltender Brett Epp serves as backup vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency goaltender Brett Epp was activated before the team&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/anaheim-ducks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"anaheim-ducks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> and backed up Matt Tomkins.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers needed Epp to take the No. 2 role because Tristan Jarry was unavailable due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>Epp is the Oilers&#8217; full-time emergency goalie this season, a new rule instituted by the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton native, 29, played most recently for Grant MacEwan University in U Sports in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Because Epp was needed on the bench, the Oilers called up their old part-time EBUG, Westin Cardwell, to serve in the EBUG role on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tomkins made his season debut for the Oilers in their game against the New York Rangers on Nov. 1, stopping 27 of 28 shots on net for a .964 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p>He was called up on Oct. 23 when Devon Levi (undisclosed) went on injured reserve in a corresponding move. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency goaltender Brett Epp was activated before the team&#8217;s game against the Anaheim Ducks and backed up Matt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-520202","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\/520202","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=520202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}