Edmonton Oilers' Zach Hyman needs season-ending surgery after Game 4 injury

Joshua Clipperton · The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 28, 2025 8:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Zach Hyman is "most apt done" for the playoffs.

Oilers caput manager Kris Knoblauch said Wednesday the grinding winger was acceptable to person country aft getting injured successful Edmonton's 4-1 triumph implicit Dallas successful Game 4 of the NHL's Western Conference final.

Hyman was wounded midway done Tuesday's archetypal play aft taking a glancing deed from Stars guardant Mason Marchment coming retired of the antiaircraft zone. 

The 32-year-old dropped his instrumentality and made a beeline for the locker country favouring his close arm.

"Zach's play is mostly apt done," Knoblauch said Wednesday. "He's getting country contiguous and it'll beryllium a while, truthful we're not expecting him back for the playoffs."

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Knoblauch distributed Hyman's minutes among his guardant depth, with some Trent Frederic and Corey Perry seeing clip connected superstar skipper Connor McDavid's helping done 2 periods.

"Everyone stepped up," helium added. "Go done the lineup I liked however everyone conscionable played a small spot better."

Edmonton's seat brag past leaned heavy connected Leon Draisaitl successful the 3rd by double-shifting the large centre arsenic Edmonton squeezed the beingness retired of Dallas with a front-foot approach.

"You're not conscionable going to marque that up," Draisaitl, who had a extremity and an assist, said of Hyman's absence. "But collectively, I deliberation we person what it takes to marque up for it."

Hyman started the nighttime astatine Rogers Place with 27 much post-season hits than Florida Panthers centre Sam Bennett — No. 2 connected the database — to spell on with 5 goals and six assists.

'A large loss'

The 32-year-old Toronto native, who added 2 much hits to his tally earlier exiting Tuesday, scored 54 times past play earlier adding 16 much successful the playoffs arsenic portion of the Oilers' tally to the final, wherever they mislaid to the Florida Panthers successful 7 games.

A free-agent signing successful the summertime of 2021 aft six campaigns with the Maple Leafs, Hyman registered 27 goals and 17 assists for 44 points crossed 73 games successful 2024-25.

"It's a large loss," said Edmonton guardant Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who had different 2 assists to springiness him 9 points successful the series. "He's a large portion of our team, connected and disconnected the ice, the mode helium does things. You've seen his physicality.

"It's important to our game, but different guys person already stepped up and tried to capable that gap."

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The Oilers much than doubled the Stars with 50 hits Tuesday. Vasily Podkolzin led the mode with eight, portion Kasperi Kapanen added seven. Knoblauch besides pointed to the reunited enactment of Podkolzin, Mattias Janmark and Viktor Arvidsson helping to prime up the slack.

"I thought we dealt with it good," Draisaitl said. "The guys that were possibly a small further down the lineup, evidently got their minutes elevated a small bit."

Edmonton, which has weathered the tempest connected the backmost extremity successful these playoffs with the soon-to-be-healthy blueliner Mattias Ekholm sidelined, was already dealing with 1 wounded up beforehand aft Connor Brown took a immense deed successful Sunday's large 6-1 triumph successful Game 3.

The Oilers could elite to spell with 11 forwards and 7 defencemen successful Game 5 connected Thursday nighttime if their 2 injured wingers can't spell and Ekholm is ready.

"He's a immense piece, a cardinal piece," Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner, who enactment successful different outstanding effort with 28 saves, said of Hyman.

"He is simply a cliche. He is simply a hard-worker, helium grinds, helium does the small things right, and connected apical of that, he's an astonishing quality being.

"Everyone loves that guy."

Perry, who astatine property 40 has seen a batch of hockey, said Hyman is "a dog-on-the-bone" for Edmonton.

"He wants the puck," said the 2007 Cup champ with Anaheim. "If helium doesn't person it, he's chasing it down. That's Zach Hyman hockey."

The Oilers had to bash without his relentless attack successful Game 4. How agelong that lasts volition travel into amended absorption earlier the squad boards a level Wednesday conscionable 60 minutes from different quality successful the final.

"Guys are acceptable to measurement up," Nugent-Hopkins said. "Everybody's conscionable chomping astatine the spot to get retired there.

"Part of it felt similar we were doing it for Zach."