{"id":7587,"date":"2013-11-07T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hall-set-to-return-to-oilers-lineup\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:03:00","slug":"hall-set-to-return-to-oilers-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/hall-set-to-return-to-oilers-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall set to return to Oilers&#8217; lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers will have Taylor Hall available for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, with the standout left wing returning ahead of schedule from a left knee sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was initially expected to miss around four weeks with the injury, which occurred during a matchup at Ottawa on Oct. 19. The 2010 No. 1 overall pick was cleared to play by the Oilers&#8217; medical staff, however, and head coach Dallas Eakins confirmed Hall will be in Thursday&#8217;s lineup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s been cleared to play and he will play,&#8221; said Eakins. &#8220;How he&#8217;s going and how the team is going will determine how much ice time he gets tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall had gotten his fourth NHL season off to a strong start, recording three goals and five assists in nine games prior to the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old will skate with a brace on his left knee for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers will have Taylor Hall available for Thursday&#8217;s game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, with the standout left wing returning ahead of schedule from a left knee sprain. Hall was initially expected to miss around four weeks with the injury, which occurred during a matchup at Ottawa on Oct. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}