VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 The Young Guns came out firing against a strong Canucks squad.<\/p>\n
And they were the last ones standing.<\/p>\n
Backstopped by a 25-save performance from\u00a0Tristan Jarry, the Edmonton Oilers received tallies from Isaac Howard & Quinn Hutson in a 2-1 victory over a near full-strength Vancouver Canucks on Thursday at Rogers Arena in pre-season action.<\/p>\n
Howard finished with a goal & an assist, opening the scoring 3:58 into the first period before picking up the primary helper on Hutson’s tally that doubled Edmonton’s advantage before the five-minute mark of the middle frame.<\/p>\n
The Canucks cut the lead to 2-1 on the power play only 1:33 later, but that would be all the hosts could muster against a resilient Jarry between the pipes for the Oilers and some terrific penalty-killing and defending over the final 40 minutes of regulation.<\/p>\n
Forward Viljami Marjala and defenceman Tomas\u00a0Cibulka both picked up assists.<\/p>\n
The Oilers improve to 3-0-0 in the preseason and will wrap up their exhibition schedule on Saturday with their final tune-up against the Calgary Flames at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 The Young Guns came out firing against a strong Canucks squad. And they were the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-904564","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\/904564","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=904564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}