{"id":342295,"date":"2025-10-30T04:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342295\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:13:39","slug":"why-zach-hymans-return-to-the-oilers-from-injury-is-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342295\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Zach Hyman\u2019s return to the Oilers from injury is delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 The long-awaited return of Zach Hyman is going to take a little bit longer.<\/p>\n

The Edmonton Oilers winger won\u2019t be ready to play Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks, the first opportunity he could have come off LTIR from a dislocated right wrist.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks ready to go. I want to put him in. Our medical staff is holding him back,\u201d Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said in jest after Wednesday\u2019s practice in which Hyman was a full participant. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Knoblauch called his status week to week, while noting Hyman could return as early as Nov. 8 against the Colorado Avalanche. The 33-year-old Hyman is itching to make his season debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you I\u2019m ready to go because that\u2019s how I feel,\u201d Hyman said. \u201cThe doctors are the ones who are there to protect you from yourself at times and make sure, when you do return, that you\u2019re able and ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how I feel, but they know more than I do. I feel really good. I feel close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyman was injured in Game 5 of the Western Conference final<\/a> on a neutral-zone hit by then-Dallas Stars forward Mason Marchment. He missed the rest of that series and the Stanley Cup Final, the last seven games of the playoff run.<\/p>\n

That incident happened exactly five months ago, on May 29.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very serious injury,\u201d Oilers captain Connor McDavid said. \u201cHe\u2019s someone that we obviously care about, somebody that I spend the summer with training. To see him go through this rehab has been difficult. It hasn\u2019t been easy for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhenever those things happen, it\u2019s just a reminder of the human side of the game. These are real bodies. These are real people with emotions. These are setbacks that are big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyman is the Oilers\u2019 best natural winger. His absence was apparent as the team struggled offensively for the first couple of weeks of the season. Not only can he produce, his physicality and net-front presence \u2014 both at five-on-five and on the power play \u2014 were also removed from the lineup.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe provides a lot of things that we\u2019ve been looking for,\u201d McDavid said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be nice to get him back whenever that is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyman had 27 goals and 44 points in 73 games last season before adding five goals and 11 points in 15 playoff games. In 2023-24, he netted 54 goals, plus another 16 in the postseason. That tied him with former Toronto Maple Leafs teammate Auston Matthews for tops in the NHL with 70 goals between the regular season and playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 The long-awaited return of Zach Hyman is going to take a little bit longer. The Edmonton…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2997,293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-342295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-edmonton-oilers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461174260412993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}