{"id":397174,"date":"2026-01-07T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397174\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:21:07","slug":"mcdavid-gets-hat-trick-oilers-cruise-past-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397174\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid gets hat trick, Oilers cruise past Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kapanen scored his first of the season at 18:52 when his wrist shot from in front deflected in off Predators defenseman Roman Josi<\/a>. Kapanen had not played since Oct. 19, missing the previous 36 games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt times, you can notice that I haven\u2019t played in 2 1\/2 months,\u201d Kapanen said. \u201cBut all in all, I thought it was not a bad effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

O’Reilly cut the deficit to 4-1 at 3:48 of the third period, sliding the rebound of Nicolas Hague’s point shot past Ingram’s right pad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing. We had a chance to make it a really good road trip,\u201d O\u2019Reilly said. \u201cWe\u2019re down 1-0 at the end of the first, and I think if we can stay in the game from there it\u2019s a bit of an opportunity for us. … You give up three quick ones and it\u2019s tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blankenburg brought Nashville to within 4-2 just 15 seconds later at 4:03 when his one-timer off Reid Schaefer<\/a>‘s pass from below the goal line beat Ingram through a screen. Schaefer’s assist was his first in the NHL (19 games).<\/p>\n

Draisaitl made it 5-2 at 13:46. Kapanen sent a centering pass from the left boards into the slot, where Draisaitl snapped it five-hole on Saros for his first even-strength goal since Dec. 6.<\/p>\n

McDavid completed the hat trick at 19:03, tapping a pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> over Saros’ blocker from in front for the 6-2 final. The assist was Nugent-Hopkins’ 500th in the NHL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of really good players to pass the puck to,\u201d Nugent-Hopkins said. \u201cI\u2019ve obviously been here a long time and played on some great teams with some great players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just kind of shows the caliber of players I\u2019ve played with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kapanen scored his first of the season at 18:52 when his wrist shot from in front deflected in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-397174","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\/397174","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=397174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}