{"id":465122,"date":"2025-03-20T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=465122"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:12:49","slug":"leon-draisaitl-injury-news-edmonton-oilers-winnipeg-jets-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/03\/20\/leon-draisaitl-injury-news-edmonton-oilers-winnipeg-jets-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Draisaitl Doubtful vs. Winnipeg Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are likely to be without one of their stars for Thursday&#8217;s game. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/oilers\/\" target=\"_self\">Leon Draisaitl is doubtful to play and is being considered day-to-day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Draisaitl Doubtful<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Leon Draisaitl is doubtful for tonight&#39;s game against the Jets and is considered day-to-day, Kris Knoblauch announced <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/waJIq4rgMZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/waJIq4rgMZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1902776463062921552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The star sustained a injury when he got tangled up with Olli Maatta on Tuesday during the Oilers 7-1 win. Draisaitl finished the game\u00a0 but sat out practice Wednesday as well as the morning skate Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl leads the NHL with 49 goals. Furthermore, he is second in points behind Nathan MacKinnon of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?s=colorado+avalanche\" target=\"_self\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Injury Follows End of Point Streak<\/h3>\n<p>For Draisitl, it is injury added to insult. He had an 18-game point streak (14 goals, 13 assists) end against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?s=utah+hockey+club\" target=\"_self\">Utah Hockey Club<\/a>. In addition, if he misses Thursday, it will be his first missed game of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Draisaitl is at the top of his game right now. He is playing a very physical brand of hockey. It is not surprising that he may have sustained injuries throughout the year.<\/p>\n<h3>Next Man Up<\/h3>\n<p>One person to count on to elevate his game with Draisatl is an obvious candidate. Yes, we are talking about the captain, Connor McDavid.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Oilers have many other options that could in fact step up. In fact, now would be a great time for players, who have not had consistent seasons. Jeff Skinner, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, and Zach Hyman have offensive skill to their game, but have not had a breakout moment yet this season. There is no time like the present. For the Oilers, a team looking to return to the Stanley Cup Final, getting production with a star out would be huge.<\/p>\n<p><em>Last Word On Hockey\u00a0<\/em>will provide updates regarding Draisatl&#8217;s injury as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: Ed Mulholland- Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers are likely to be without one of their stars for Thursday&#8217;s game. Leon Draisaitl is doubtful to play and is being considered day-to-day. Draisaitl Doubtful Leon Draisaitl is doubtful for tonight&#39;s game against the Jets and is considered day-to-day, Kris Knoblauch announced pic.twitter.com\/waJIq4rgMZ &mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 20, 2025 The star sustained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3464,"featured_media":465123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23,4547,4548],"tags":[139,5774,1576,277,193,608,145,714],"class_list":["post-465122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-oilers","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton-oilers-news","tag-injury","tag-jeff-skinner","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-olli-maatta","tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins","tag-zach-hyman"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465138,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465122\/revisions\/465138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}