The Nashville Predators will likely be without defenseman Nic Hague on Monday against the Los Angeles Kings, as they have recalled defenseman Jordan Oesterle from the Milwaukee Admirals.<\/p>\n
Hague suffered an apparent upper-body injury in the Predators’ game against the San Jose Sharks on Saturday and left the game early.<\/p>\n
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Oesterle is having a strong season in the AHL, recording 46 points (14 goals, 32 assists) in 65 games. Prior to the recall, Oesterle was riding a seven-game point streak, tallying 11 points in that run.<\/p>\n
He’s had six points in his last three games.<\/p>\n
Oesterle is a veteran defenseman, now in his 14th professional season. From 2016 to 2024, he played full-time in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers, Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes, Detroit Red Wings and Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n
Over his career, he’s tallied 96 points in 408 NHL games. Despite this being his first call-up of the 2025-26 season, he’s a veteran presence on the blue line that the Predators could benefit from.<\/p>\n
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Oesterle saw action in 15 games last season, recording three goals and an assist for four points and logged two penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
The stakes are high in Monday night’s game as two points would break a tie with the Los Angeles Kings for the final Wild Card spot. Both teams have 71 points, but Nashville has the regulation wins tiebreaker.<\/p>\n
Puckdrop is at 9:30 p.m. CST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators will likely be without defenseman Nic Hague on Monday against the Los Angeles Kings, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,26,37,96,5263,93,146,5,9489,145,2206,231,4,62083,168,3398],"class_list":{"0":"post-544752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","12":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","13":"tag-detroit-red-wings","14":"tag-edmonton-oilers","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jordan-oesterle","17":"tag-los-angeles-kings","18":"tag-milwaukee-admirals","19":"tag-nashville-predators","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-oesterle","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-veteran-defenseman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116361100197260116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544752","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=544752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}