{"id":563736,"date":"2026-03-27T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:10:11","slug":"bouchard-scores-in-overtime-as-edmonton-oilers-beat-vegas-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/563736\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouchard scores in overtime as Edmonton Oilers beat Vegas Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Evan Bouchard<\/a> scored at 3:10 of overtime, shortly after Edmonton killed off a Vegas penalty, and the Oilers defeated the Golden Knights 4-3 in a game Thursday night with playoff implications.<\/p>\n

The Oilers extended their lead for second place in the Pacific Division to two points over the Golden Knights. They are five points behind first-place Anaheim.<\/p>\n

Edmonton captain Connor McDavid<\/a> scored a goal and picked up two assists. His first assist gave him 800, the third-fastest player to reach that milestone. He got there in 785 games, behind only Wayne Gretzky<\/a> (527 games) and Mario Lemieux<\/a> (661).<\/p>\n

McDavid, who has 121 points this season, has scored four goals in three games. Matt Savoie<\/a>, a 22-year-old rookie, scored a goal for his fourth point (three goals, one assist) over six games since joining the top line. Zach Hyman<\/a> also scored and Connor Ingram<\/a> made 26 saves.<\/p>\n

Mark Stone<\/a> ended his post-Olympics goal-less skid by hitting the back of the net twice for the Golden Knights, who have lost five of six games. Ivan Barbashev<\/a> had a goal and an assist and Adin Hill<\/a> finished with 25 saves.<\/p>\n

This was a chippy game from the beginning between teams that have represented the Western Conference in the past three Stanley Cup Final series. The first period ended with a multiple-player brawl that resulted in linesman Kilian McNamara inadvertently catching a stick in the face and two players from each team taking 2-minute minor penalties.<\/p>\n

The intensity was not surprising given there\u2019s a good chance the teams will meet in the playoffs. Edmonton ousted Vegas in five games of their second-round series last season.<\/p>\n

They will meet each other in the first round of this year\u2019s playoffs if the standings hold.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Oilers: Host Anaheim on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Golden Knights: Host Washington on Saturday. ___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Mark Anderson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Evan Bouchard scored at 3:10 of overtime, shortly after Edmonton killed off a Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,82],"class_list":["post-563736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563736","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=563736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}