With NHL training season just around the corner, NHL Insider Jim Matheson revealed the status of two injured players: Troy Stecher and Ty Emberson. The Edmonton Oilers are inching their way back to a Stanley Cup, nearly taking it back north last year in the finals against the Florida Panthers. Hoping for a better shot this year, they will have to hope on some of their injured players from making it into the lineup. Thankfully, we now have some insight as to what that could look like. <a href='https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/edmonton-oilers-ty-emberson-kris-knoblauch' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal released an article that provided an update on two previously injured players</a> one of which was Troy Stecher. He was unable to join the Oilers in the playoffs last season after undergoing ankle surgery. Now, the team has re-signed him for a roughly $1.5 million deal and has started skating again, likely ready for camp ahead. <q>Defenceman Troy Stecher, who had a bursa sac issue in his ankle that required surgery at the end of May, has just started skating and should be ready for camp. Stecher, who had a few other teams interested in signing him July 1 but re-upped here for $788,000 AAV for two years, tried to gut it out but the problem was where the eyelets are on the skate boot, so there was no extra padding to cushion the pain.</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/DerekVanDiest/status/1796611894884659548'> </a></blockquote></div> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/CompleteHkyNews/status/1807945157729222682'> </a></blockquote></div> Recently, the Oilers also made the move to trade Cody Ceci and a third-round pick to the San Jose Sharks for Ty Emberson. He had trouble in San Jose managing a series of injuries, with the dreaded skate laceration as the final straw. However, Matheson pointed out his excitement to be back on the ice, working with Kris Knoblauch instead. <q>I loved my time with Kris. He's very good at understanding players and communicating with us. He didn't want us to chip it out or rim it around the boards. He wanted us making plays. And Steve was awesome as our D coach. We hit it off, same ideas as Knobber, make plays, don't play scared. I had some very fluky injuries, the last one the worst. I went to hit someone, then he went up in the air and as he was falling, the skate blade cut across my foot. I had surgery that evening. I missed the last 24 games.</q> <div align='center'><blockquote class='twitter-tweet' data-lang='en'><a href='https://twitter.com/LockedOnSharks/status/1825371282894164113'> </a></blockquote></div> With two more players ready to meet the challenge come training time, the Edmonton Oilers are going to shape up at the start of this season, rather than spending it crawling back from the bottom. Hopefully, they can keep these players uninjured and in top shape. Otherwise, it could be another tough end to their run in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Source: Oilers Daily <a href='https://www.oilersdaily.com/nhl-team/edmonton-oilers/insider-provides-injury-update-for-two-newly-acquired-oilers-defencemen' class='lien_marqueur' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Insider provides injury update for two newly acquired Oilers defencemen</a>