{"id":637757,"date":"2026-04-29T05:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637757\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:12:07","slug":"oilers-chase-lukas-dostal-with-three-quick-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/637757\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers chase Lukas Dostal with three quick goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

With their season on the line, the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> came out guns a-blazing.<\/p>\n

The Oilers, down 3-1 in their first-round series against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a>, netted three quick goals in the opening minutes of Game 5 and chased goaltender Lukas Dostal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was replaced midway through the first period for Ville Husso after playing just over 10 minutes and allowing the three goals on nine shots.<\/p>\n

Vasily Podkolzin netted the first for Edmonton only 2:22 into the game, wiring one over Dostal’s right shoulder off a beauty cross-ice pass from Evan Bouchard. <\/p>\n

It marked the second straight game that the Oilers scored on their opening shot of the game, with that Game 4 goal also on Dostal.<\/p>\n

Six minutes later, Zach Hyman netted his second of the post-season, capitalizing on a failed clearance from Dostal that went to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins along the boards, and was fired back in front of the net for a waiting Hyman.<\/p>\n

The last straw for Dostal came less than two minutes later when Leon Draisaitl redirected a shot from Bouchard through the goaltender’s legs.<\/p>\n

Dostal has had an up-and-down year for the Ducks, registering a 30-20-4 record, 3.10 goals-against average and .888 save percentage in 56 regular-season games. He hasn’t been much better in the post-season, as he entered Tuesday’s contest with a 3.77 GAA and .878 save percentage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their season on the line, the Edmonton Oilers came out guns a-blazing. The Oilers, down 3-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-637757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637757","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=637757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}