{"id":364146,"date":"2025-12-22T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:16:08","slug":"mcdavid-scores-again-oilers-hold-off-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364146\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid scores again, Oilers hold off Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> had two goals and an assist, Zach Hyman<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Leon Draisaitl<\/a> had two assists for the Oilers (18-13-6), who were coming off a 5-2 loss at the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram<\/a> made 26 saves in what was both his Oilers debut and his first NHL game since Feb. 22. He was recalled from Bakersfield of the American Hockey League on Friday, when Tristan Jarry<\/a> (lower body) was placed on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been hectic, but at the end of the day, no matter what level you\u2019re in, my job is just to stop the puck,\u201d Ingram said. \u201cI don\u2019t have to learn a forecheck or things like that. My job never changes. Guys did a great job making me feel welcome and showing me everything I need to know. It\u2019s been great.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of days I didn\u2019t think it would ever happen again. It\u2019s just the truth of it in this world. It\u2019s a competitive game. There are 64 spots in the world to do this, so you don\u2019t take it for granted any day that you\u2019re up here. It\u2019s a huge honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomas Hertl<\/a> had a goal and two assists, Mitch Marner<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Noah Hanifin<\/a> had three assists for the Golden Knights (16-8-10), who have lost three in a row (0-2-1), including 6-3 at the Calgary Flames on Saturday. Carter Hart<\/a> made 17 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should have been much more fatigued than we were, it was their sixth game in nine days in six different cities, so that was not an excuse,\u201d Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. \u201cWe\u2019re actually pretty good in back-to-backs. I don\u2019t really have a reason why we wouldn\u2019t start on time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I saw was we didn\u2019t execute or play with the same pace or compete that they did. Why that was, it\u2019s certainly nothing to do, to me, with a back-to-back. We eventually got to our game, and if we wouldn\u2019t have we would have been embarrassed.”<\/p>\n

McDavid put Edmonton ahead 1-0 at 9:11 of the first period. He took a short pass from Draisaitl after gaining the zone, circled in from the right dot and glided across the front of the crease before putting the puck past the extended right pad of Hart.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s sneaky. Obviously, you know how fast and how skilled he is out there, and there are plays that don\u2019t look like anything\u2019s going to happen, and then next thing you know it\u2019s kind of in his hands coming up the ice with a full head of speed,\u201d Marner said. \u201cWhen that\u2019s going on, it\u2019s tough for anyone to cover him. He\u2019s so shifty, so dynamic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose head fakes, it\u2019s hard not to bite on them, really, just with how quick and how fast he\u2019s going. So, we\u2019ve just got to do a better job in the neutral zone trying to take away his time and space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nugent-Hopkins made it 2-0 on a power play at 14:37, tapping in a backdoor pass from Draisaitl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Nugent-Hopkins had two goals and an assist, Zach Hyman had a goal and an assist, and Leon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-364146","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\/364146","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=364146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}