{"id":544211,"date":"2026-03-18T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544211\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:36:08","slug":"oilers-display-balanced-offense-in-win-against-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/544211\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers display balanced offense in win against Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlov put the Sharks ahead 1-0 at 7:24 of the first period. After a giveaway in the neutral zone by Oilers forward Jason Dickinson<\/a>, Alexander Wennberg<\/a>\u00a0found Orlov with a forward pass to the left post for the backdoor tap-in that glanced off the blocker of a sprawling Ingram.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a tough one and we need to be better as a team in all aspects of the game,\u201d Orlov said. \u201cBasically, playoffs started for us months ago. If you look at the standings, everybody\u2019s so close to each other. The last couple games, we\u2019ve lost our spot in the wild card and obviously it\u2019s not going to be easy. Every game, you can see it\u2019s a battle and I think sometimes we just beat ourselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s puck management and turnovers in the neutral zone, then we have to play defense more and spend more time in our zone. Especially when you play against Edmonton, if you have the puck more and spend more time in the offensive zone, then it\u2019s going to be more frustrating for them and it\u2019s going to be tougher for them because there is a lot of skill there, and we just kind of fed them today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> tied it 1-1 on a power play at 10:00, taking a dot-to-dot pass from\u00a0McDavid and snapping the puck past Nedeljkovic\u2019s glove short side.<\/p>\n

Connor Murphy<\/a> gave Edmonton a 2-1 lead at 11:15. He got the puck at the blue line after Dickinson won an offensive zone face-off and sent a wrist shot through traffic past Nedeljkovic\u2019s stick.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t know how many games I\u2019ve had on St. Patrick’s Day, but I’ll take any sort of luck I can get, however it comes,\u201d Murphy, who scored his first goal since joining the Oilers on March 2 in a deal that sent a second-round pick in the 2028 NHL Draft to the Chicago Blackhawks, said. \u201cEveryone says it’s cliche for everyone to chip in, but it really is true.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the offense isn\u2019t going to come as easy, it’s going to take a little more of just being responsible with your play. And it doesn’t even mean you need to score that many. It takes what it takes, whether it\u2019s scoring five or winning 1-0.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlov put the Sharks ahead 1-0 at 7:24 of the first period. After a giveaway in the neutral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-544211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544211","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=544211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}