{"id":469306,"date":"2025-05-27T21:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=469306"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:20:20","slug":"oilers-will-be-without-goal-scoring-winger-for-rest-of-game-4-vs-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/27\/oilers-will-be-without-goal-scoring-winger-for-rest-of-game-4-vs-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers Will Be Without Goal-Scoring Winger for Rest of Game 4 vs Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oilers caught a tough break in Game 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/marchma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mason Marchment<\/a> tried to hit Zach Hyman a little after nine minutes in. The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/27\/edmonton-oilers-defence-improvements\/\" target=\"_self\"> Edmonton Oilers<\/a> and Dallas Stars were doing battle in Game 4 of their Western Conference Final with the <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC\/status\/1927532209159971245\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oilers<\/a> currently up two-games-to-one in the series. It appeared that it is a right hand or wrist injury for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hymanza01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Hyman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Edmonton Oilers Zach Hyman Possible Injury<\/h3>\n<p>The game was very intense. Especially so after a sequence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/k\/klingjo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Klingberg<\/a> penalty for holding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/duchema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matt Duchene<\/a>. Then, there was a missed hooking call on the Stars. That really caused the intensity in the game to kick start. That&#8217;s when the play happened. Next, when the Oilers power play did eventually take the ice, Hyman was missing. Needless to say, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/draisle01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> one-timer on the feed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nugenry01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a>, ignited the home crowd.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s the Difference for the Oilers Without Hyman<\/h3>\n<p>If Zach Hyman has an injury, they will be missing an invaluable piece to Edmonton&#8217;s success. His two goal and three point performance in Game 3 was truly a pivotal piece to the lineup. Furthermore, he is great at wreaking havoc in front. He can really help wear a team down through a long playoff series. Looks like a severe injury and he&#8217;s not coming back tonight was the discussion between <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliotte Friedman\u00a0<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hrudeke01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-05-27_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kelly Hrudey<\/a> at the first intermission of Game 4. Hyman will be missed and someone will have to pick up his in case.<\/p>\n<p>Evander Kane could very well be a great option to pick it up for the Oilers. Another option is Corey Perry. Whoever it ends up being, the Oilers or their fans don&#8217;t mind. They just hope they won&#8217;t be without Hyman passed tonight. However, given the scene we saw unfold, it is possible it goes beyond this game. Now, the Mattias Ekholm return could play that much more of a pivotal role if it happens sooner rather than later to try to boost the Oilers lineup in Hyman&#8217;s potential absence.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Perry Nelson-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oilers caught a tough break in Game 4. Mason Marchment tried to hit Zach Hyman a little after nine minutes in. The Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars were doing battle in Game 4 of their Western Conference Final with the Oilers currently up two-games-to-one in the series. It appeared that it is a right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4222,"featured_media":469310,"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":[23,29,4547,6671,34,4548],"tags":[8133,5774,714],"class_list":["post-469306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-stars","category-hockey","category-injuries","category-news","category-nhl","tag-2025-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-edmonton-oilers-news","tag-zach-hyman"],"modified_by":"Levi Pike, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469306","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\/4222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469313,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469306\/revisions\/469313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}