{"id":545759,"date":"2026-04-07T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:48:20","slug":"nhl-fan-gives-birth-at-edmonton-oilers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545759\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL fan gives birth at Edmonton Oilers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman gave birth on the seventh floor of Rogers Place as the Edmonton Oilers hosted the Las Vegas Knights in Alberta, Canada on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Oilers play-by-play announcer Jack Michaels announced the baby\u2019s birth on the Sportsnet broadcast before the start of the third period.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\">\u201cBreaking news: We have word that someone has gone into labor here tonight,\u201d Michaels said. \u201cThere\u2019s a baby being born on the seventh floor at Rogers Place as we speak.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">\u201cSo someone\u2019s going to have a great story to tell. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\">\u201cIt would be nice to have the mother join us on\u00a0\u2018After Hours\u2019\u00a0to describe what\u2019s happened but that could be asking a bit much,\u201d Michaels joked. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.40082079;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39013588\" width=\"826\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/oilers.jpg\" alt=\"A woman gave birth on the seventh floor of Rogers Place as the Emonton Oilers hosted the Las Vegas Knights in  Alberta, Canada on Saturday, April 4, 2026, Sportsnet reported.  \" class=\"wp-image-39013588\"  \/>A woman gave birth on the seventh floor of Rogers Place as the Emonton Oilers hosted the Las Vegas Knights in  Alberta, Canada on Saturday, April 4, 2026, Sportsnet reported.   X\/Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p>No further details, including the mother\u2019s identity, were shared publicly. <\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first instance of a baby being born in the middle of a professional sports game. <\/p>\n<p>A woman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/09\/25\/baby-born-during-san-diego-padres-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave birth to a baby boy<\/a> during the third inning of a Padres-Giants game at Petco Park in 2015. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39013635\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/10-edmonton-oilers-battles-puck-125047093.jpg\" alt=\"Trent Frederic #10 of the Edmonton Oilers battles for the puck against Jack Eichel #9 of the Vegas Golden Knights during the third period of the game at Rogers Place on April 4, 2026, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. \" class=\"wp-image-39013635\"  \/>Trent Frederic #10 of the Edmonton Oilers battles for the puck against Jack Eichel #9 of the Vegas Golden Knights during the third period of the game at Rogers Place on April 4, 2026, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  NHLI via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers lost to the Knights,\u00a05-1, ending Edmonton\u2019s five-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers are fighting for the top spot in the Pacific Division, tied with the Anaheim Ducks with 87 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights are in third place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p>All three of the teams have five games remaining in the NHL\u2019s regular season, which concludes on April 16. <\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs start on April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman gave birth on the seventh floor of Rogers Place as the Edmonton Oilers hosted the Las&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24,43,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-545759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116364215745869727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545759","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=545759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}