{"id":396864,"date":"2026-01-08T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396864\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:16:09","slug":"oilers-adam-henrique-out-long-term-placed-on-ir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/396864\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers’ Adam Henrique Out Long-Term, Placed On IR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Oilers forward Adam Henrique<\/a> is set to miss nearly two months of action after sustaining an undisclosed injury in Tuesday\u2019s game against the Nashville Predators. The Oilers placed Henrique on IR<\/a> and announced that he is expected to return after the NHL\u2019s break for the Winter Olympics, which ends on February 24th.<\/p>\n

When Henrique sustained his injury isn\u2019t entirely clear. Henrique did block a shot from Predators\u2019 winger Filip Forsberg<\/a> with his wrist in his final shift of the game but didn\u2019t appear to be in pain for the rest of his time on the ice. Whether that caused his injury or not, the veteran forward will now be forced to miss the next 14 games, at least.<\/p>\n

Henrique has had a quiet year on the scoresheet. He only has 10 points and 12 penalty minutes in 43 games this season \u2013 a career-low scoring pace. The 35 year old has made up for that lack of scoring away from the puck. He leads Edmonton\u2019s forwards with 57 shot blocks, ranks second among the club\u2019s usual centers with a 54.8 faceoff percentage, and ranks fifth on the offense with 24 hits. He\u2019s continued to fill a core, bottom-six role in Edmonton that will be hard to fill.<\/p>\n

The Oilers will bring Trent Frederic<\/a> back into the lineup in Henrique\u2019s spot. Frederic has had a year much quieter than his rich extension would suggest, with only three points and a minus-10 in 41 games. He has posted 103 hits, though, good for second on the team behind Vasily Podkolzin<\/a>. Edmonton also has Andrew Mangiapane<\/a>, who has 11 points in 40 games, in the press box. They oculd also recall Quinn Hutson<\/a>, who leads the AHL\u2019s Bakersfield Condors with 35 points in 27 games.<\/p>\n

Edmonton could be afforded a chance to figure out Henrique\u2019s replacement by Kasperi Kapanen<\/a>\u2018s return from a three-month long injury absence. Kapanen scored two points in Edmonton\u2019s 6-2 win over the Predators on Tuesday. That win ended a three-game losing skid and brought Edmonton up to a 6-4-0 record in their last 10 games. Comfortably in a playoff position, Kapanen\u2019s return could help buoy the offense while they address a new hole on the fourth line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers forward Adam Henrique is set to miss nearly two months of action after sustaining an undisclosed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[1586,198,146,5300,5,402,4,24,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-396864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-adam-henrique","9":"tag-edmonton","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers","11":"tag-edmontonoilers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-injury","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-oilers","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115857547987114804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}