Max Jones scored the game-winning goal, and\u00a0Henrique had two points as part of an effective fourth line in limited minutes with Trent Frederic, who also posted an assist.<\/p>\n
Edmonton’s balanced attack included a power-play goal for Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, a first goal in an Oilers\u00a0uniform for\u00a0Connor Murphy, and further tallies from Vasily\u00a0Podkolzin and Zach Hyman (empty-netter) to help overcome a second-period comeback from the Sharks and strengthen\u00a0their push for first\u00a0in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
The Oilers are currently one point back of the Ducks, who have a game in hand, after they fell 3-2 to the Flyers in overtime on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Having beaten the Oilers in back-to-back Stanley Cup Finals, the Panthers aren’t quite the same team this season,\u00a0currently sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic Division and 13 points back of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with a 33-31-3 record.<\/p>\n
But that doesn’t mean they’re about to go easy, given these two teams’ history and the fact that a win on Thursday at Rogers Place could impact Edmonton’s playoff hopes, where their last visit ended in a Game 5 victory in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Jones scored the game-winning goal, and\u00a0Henrique had two points as part of an effective fourth line in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-546308","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\/546308","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=546308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}