WINNIPEG, MB \u2013 Another pre-season victory in the ‘Peg.<\/p>\n
Defenceman Ty Emberson and forwards Quinn Hutson and Isaac Howard each recorded goals, while centre Noah Philp had two assists for the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night in a 3-2 pre-season victory over the Winnipeg Jets at Canada Life Centre.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first period, NCAA standouts Hutson and Howard both tallied their first goals of the preseason during the middle stanza, with Hutson putting a deflection set up by Philp at 7:39 of the frame past netminder Eric Comrie.<\/p>\n
Howard notched the go-ahead goal from the right circle off Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ terrific cross-seam pass on the power play just over two minutes after Jets defenceman Colin Miller equalized to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n
Howard now has points in back-to-back games after assisting on Kasperi Kapanen’s goal on Sunday in a 3-0 split-squad exhibition win over Calgary, and the 21-year-old prospect had another strong showing on a line with Nugent-Hopkins and Kapanen in Winnipeg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“I think I’m just getting comfortable with the systems, new things like that, and obviously a new environment,” Howard said. “I think each day, I just feel better, and it’s been a great experience.”<\/p>\n
Emberson recorded the eventual game-winner 11:57 into the third period with a wicked shot off the post after Philp’s saucer pass found him wide open, ultimately giving the Oilers the 3-2 victory after forward Colby Barlow cut into the lead late for the Jets when they pulled their goalie for the extra attacker.<\/p>\n
Goaltender Calvin Pickard stopped all eight shots he faced in his pre-season debut over 33:10 of action before giving way to Matt Tomkins, who allowed two goals on 15 shots in his second pre-season appearance \u2013 both goals coming off deflections through traffic.<\/p>\n
Edmonton improved to 2-0-1 this preseason and will return home to host the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday night at Rogers Place in the second of back-to-back games, with the game being streamed live on Oilers+ beginning 7:00 PM MT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINNIPEG, MB \u2013 Another pre-season victory in the ‘Peg. Defenceman Ty Emberson and forwards Quinn Hutson and Isaac…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-165669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}