{"id":556996,"date":"2026-04-21T00:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556996\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:42:27","slug":"oilers-leon-draisaitl-to-return-from-injury-in-game-1-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556996\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Leon Draisaitl to return from injury in Game 1 vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/edmonton-oilers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"edmonton-oilers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> superstar was activated from injured reserve just hours before puck drop of Monday&#8217;s Game 1 (10 p.m. ET \/ 8 p.m. MT, Sportsnet and Sportsnet+) against the Anaheim Ducks, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>He will make his long-awaited return to the lineup as the two-time defending Western Conference champions open Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>The German forward sat out the last 14 games of the regular season with a knee injury sustained on March 15. Draisaitl has been skating with the team for the past few days and participated in a full practice Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl had 35 goals and 62 assists in 65 games at the time of his injury. He&#8217;s compiled 141 points in 96 career playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton reached the Stanley Cup final the last two years and lost both times to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers host the Ducks in the first two games before the best-of-seven series flips to Anaheim for the third and fourth games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers superstar was activated from injured reserve just hours before puck drop of Monday&#8217;s Game 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-556996","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116439924368664083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556996","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=556996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}