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A key free-agent acquisition will be back in the Edmonton Oilers’ lineup on Thursday after missing more than a month of National Hockey League action due to injury.
Viktor Arvidsson hasn’t suited up in blue-and-orange since the Oilers’ Nov. 12 game against the New York Islanders. The winger who had been lining up regularly alongside Leon Draisaitl on the team’s second forward line has missed 15 games after scoring two goals and three assists through the first 15 games of the NHL season.
Arvidsson said he had been playing with the undisclosed injury for about two-and-a-half weeks before the Oilers took him out of the lineup.
“(It) got to a point where I felt like it’s just going to hurt myself even more, so we took some time off … and made sure it’s good to go now,” he told media on Thursday after the morning skate ahead of the Oilers’ game …
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