{"id":505515,"date":"2026-03-16T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/505515\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:16:16","slug":"edmonton-oilers-star-leon-draisaitl-exits-vs-nashville-predators-with-apparent-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/505515\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers star Leon Draisaitl exits vs. Nashville Predators with apparent injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/leon-draisaitl\/8477934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/leon-draisaitl\/8477934\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> left Sunday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/nashville-predators\/18\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Predators<\/a> with an apparent injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Draisaitl, 30, appeared to be shaken up following a collision with Predators second-year forward Ozzy Weisblatt during the opening frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Weisblatt caught the Oilers star at an awkward angle just in front of Nashville\u2019s bench, with Draisaitl skating away gingerly following the hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Draisaitl would head down the tunnel the locker room and returned for one shift before the end of the period, but did not come back out with the team for the start of the second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cologne, Germany native scored the opening marker on the power play at just over three minutes into the game before departing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 65 games played this season, the 2019-20 Hart Trophy winner has recorded 35 goals and 62 assists for 97 points, good for second on the Oilers behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a>\u2019s total of 113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers forward Leon Draisaitl left Sunday\u2019s game against the Nashville Predators with an apparent injury. Draisaitl, 30,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[4759,32610,5,34658,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-505515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-leon-draisaitl-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477934","12":"tag-nashville","13":"tag-nashville-predators","14":"tag-nashvillepredators","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505515","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=505515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}