{"id":302266,"date":"2025-11-20T01:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302266\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:53:09","slug":"nic-dowd-misses-game-against-oilers-due-to-upper-body-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/302266\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic Dowd misses game against Oilers due to upper-body injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/file-nic-dowd-warmups-aland-6669.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nic Dowd\" decoding=\"async\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Capitals are without veteran center Nic Dowd against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd, 35, participated in the team\u2019s morning skate ahead of the game but did not take the ice for warmups. He did not miss a single game for the Capitals last season.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nic Dowd is out for the night with an upper-body injury, per the Caps.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Katie Adler (@katieEadler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katieEadler\/status\/1991290898831856073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Dowd out of action, Connor McMichael replaced him on the team\u2019s third line between Brandon Duhaime and Ryan Leonard. Sonny Milano will play in his first game since November 6 in Pittsburgh on the fourth line.<\/p>\n<p>Capitals\u2019 11\/19 forward lines without Nic Dowd<\/p>\n<p>Ovechkin<\/p>\n<p>Strome<\/p>\n<p>Beauvillier<\/p>\n<p>Duhaime<\/p>\n<p>McMichael<\/p>\n<p>Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Dowd played 19:21 of ice time against the Los Angeles Kings in his last game, the most he has played in a single contest this season. He fired two shots on goal in the 2-1 win over his former team.<\/p>\n<p>On the season, Dowd has recorded five points (1g, 4a) in 19 games. He is averaging 15:07 of ice time per game, with 2:42 coming shorthanded.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf8: Alan Dobbins\/RMNB The Washington Capitals are without veteran center Nic Dowd against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}