{"id":558230,"date":"2026-04-22T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:09:13","slug":"oilers-jason-dickinson-to-be-a-game-time-decision-for-game-2-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/558230\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers&#8217; Jason Dickinson to be a game-time decision for Game 2 vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/jason-dickinson\/ad6914be-5179-43a5-8960-2ec2a6d30486\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"ad6914be-5179-43a5-8960-2ec2a6d30486\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jason Dickinson<\/a> will be in the lineup on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p><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> head coach Kris Knoblauch <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsnetSpec\/status\/2046999497251901846?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> at morning skate that the centre is a game-time decision for Game 2 against the Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson was absent from the skate, and if he doesn&#8217;t suit up for the game, he will be replaced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/curtis-lazar\/0992487d-52ee-4ec5-ac3a-9f4d583e60ac\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"0992487d-52ee-4ec5-ac3a-9f4d583e60ac\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Curtis Lazar<\/a>, per the coach.<\/p>\n<p>Dickinson recorded two goals for the Oilers in their 4-3 win over the Ducks in Game 1 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Knoblauch said <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"fe20c268-5604-4e29-8bca-34e292fb3f97\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/josh-samanski\/fe20c268-5604-4e29-8bca-34e292fb3f97\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Josh Samanski<\/a> will play, making his NHL post-season debut. He replaces an injured Adam Henrique in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Henrique left Game 1 early in the first period after a collision with teammate Kasperi Kapanen. He was confirmed out for Game 2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s unclear whether Jason Dickinson will be in the lineup on Wednesday night. Edmonton Oilers head coach Kris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-558230","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\/116450411424889455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558230","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=558230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}