The goal was also the first NHL point for Mueller, who was born in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was super special,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fact that I was able to have some family here and do it against the team I grew up cheering for is something I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n
Savoie pushed it to 3-1 on a power play at 14:35. McDavid skated in on a 3-on-2 rush and sent a backhand pass to Savoie, who shot over Lankinen’s right pad from below the left circle.<\/p>\n
Savoie then completed the hat trick during a delayed penalty to make it 4-1 at 19:02 of the first. He took a cross-crease backhand pass from McDavid and buried a one-timer past Lankinen from the same spot on his previous two goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think our mindset was that it was a playoff game, and we came in with that mentality I thought right from the jump,” Savoie said.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> extended the lead to 5-1 at 16:46 of the second period, batting the puck out of the air at the right post for a power-play goal.<\/p>\n Dach made it 6-1 at 8:20 of the third period, chipping in a short centering pass from Connor Murphy<\/a>\u00a0at the edge of the crease.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was 60 minutes of a good hockey game,\u201d Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cWe checked well — we\u2019ve been checking well for a little bit now — and were able to produce the offense.<\/p>\n \u201cI think for our group it was good overall.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: McDavid won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL’s scoring champion for the sixth time. He finished with 138 points (48 goals, 90 assists), eight more than Nikita Kucherov<\/a> of the Tampa Bay Lightning. … McDavid recorded his 14th career four-assist game, passing Bobby Orr<\/a> (13) for the seventh-most in NHL history. McDavid also has 48 career four-point games, passing Jari Kurri<\/a>\u00a0(47) for the 10th-most in NHL history. … Savoie is the first player to score his first career hat trick via three goals in a single period since Nico Hischier<\/a>\u00a0of the New Jersey Devils did it on Nov. 25, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goal was also the first NHL point for Mueller, who was born in Edmonton. \u201cIt was super…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-612501","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\/612501","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=612501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}