{"id":207336,"date":"2025-10-12T07:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:31:10","slug":"edmonton-oilers-net-first-win-of-the-season-over-resilient-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207336\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers net first win of the season over resilient Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON \u2014 Leon Draisaitl<\/a>\u2019s long backhand shot into an empty net put the game away as the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> collected their first win of the season, defeating the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> 3-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Noah Philp<\/a> and Andrew Mangiapane<\/a> also scored for the Oilers (1-0-1) who are coming off a second consecutive loss to the Florida Panthers<\/a> in the Stanley Cup final.<\/p>\n

Brock Boeser<\/a> replied for the Canucks (1-1-0) who failed to qualify for the playoffs last spring after finishing first in the Pacific Division the previous campaign.<\/p>\n

Calvin Pickard<\/a> only needed to make 14 stops to collect the win for the Oilers, while Thatcher Demko<\/a> recorded 34 saves for the Canucks.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Canucks: Star blueliner Quinn Hughes<\/a> picked up an assist to give him 410 career points and pass Alex Edler for most points by a defenceman in Canucks history, despite being just 25 years of age. Hughes achieved the feat in 435 games, fewer than half of Edler\u2019s 925 games with Vancouver.<\/p>\n

Oilers: The Oilers finally broke the scoreless deadlock 12:21 into the second period as the fourth line came up big when Kasperi Kapanen<\/a> fed the puck ahead to Philp and he beat Demko with a snapshot for his first NHL goal. It was the 17th career NHL game for the 27-year-old former University of Alberta Golden Bears player, who became the 417th player to score a goal for Edmonton in Oilers team history.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

Playing in his 500th career NHL game, Mangiapane gave Edmonton a 2-0 lead with 51 seconds remaining in the second period after picking off an errant pass from Filip Chytil<\/a> while the teams were playing four aside, and rifling in his second of the season in as many games with Edmonton. Mangiapane signed as a free agent this summer.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Although Pickard is the backup to Stuart Skinner<\/a>, there has been plenty of reason to have confidence in his abilities. Pickard came into the contest with a 34-17-2 record in 59 career starts for the Oilers over the past two seasons, registering a 2.63 GAA and .903 save percentage and was 7-1 in last year\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Canucks: Host the St. Louis Blues<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Oilers: Visit the New York Rangers<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Leon Draisaitl\u2019s long backhand shot into an empty net put the game away as the Edmonton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-207336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}