{"id":567875,"date":"2026-03-29T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:47:08","slug":"mcdavid-has-3-points-oilers-hold-off-ducks-to-gain-in-pacific-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/567875\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid has 3 points, Oilers hold off Ducks to gain in Pacific race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Savoie pushed it to 3-0 at 6:10 after taking a cross-crease pass from Vasily Podkolzin<\/a>\u00a0and stuffing it glove side past Dostal from in tight.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy confidence is definitely high right now,\u201d said Savoie, who has been promoted to the top line in the shuffle to fill the void left by Leon Draisaitl<\/a>\u2019s regular-season-ending lower-body injury. \u201cIt helps seeing the puck go in, and I\u2019m getting lots of opportunities right now with some pretty good players, obviously. A really good play by (McDavid) to get that to \u2018Podz\u2019, and Podz makes an unbelievable play to get me open net. So, I\u2019m just trying to capitalize and get myself in good spots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re playing an intense style right now, closing quick in the D-zone, not giving them easy looks inside. I think it\u2019s just the intensity that we\u2019re playing with right now, and that\u2019s playoff style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sennecke cut it to 3-1 at 6:53, tipping a wrist shot from the point by Carlson through Ingram\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n

Gauthier made it 3-2 at 9:41, taking a pass from behind the net by Jeffrey Viel<\/a>, following another point shot from Carlson, and snapping it into open space stick side behind Ingram.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely got a little tighter than it needed to; we were playing such a great game up until those two goals,\u201d Oilers forward Jason Dickinson<\/a> said. \u201cI wear those on my shoulder, they\u2019re going to bug me, but the fact that we were able to stick with it and just get back to defending hard and advancing pucks to keep them from sustaining the zone, that\u2019s good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think guys can feel that\u2019s a recipe for success, sticking with the process and just keep pouring it on them. It creates a feeling of rhythm for the group that you can keep going instead of getting into a rush game where it\u2019s back and forth with turnovers at each blue line and you\u2019re not getting any flow to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hyman scored into an empty net on a pass from McDavid with 17 seconds remaining for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n

NOTES: McDavid pushed his point streak to four games (five goals, four assists) and leads the NHL with 31 goals since Dec. 1. McDavid (1,206 career points) is five points shy of tying Mario Lemieux<\/a> (1,211) for the second-most career points before age 30, behind Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u00a0(2,072). \u2026 Ducks forward Mikael Granlund<\/a>\u2019s four-game goal streak ended (seven goals). \u2026 Carlson pushed his assist streak to three games (seven assists). \u2026 Bouchard recorded his 65th assist of the season, marking a new single-season career high. Paul Coffey<\/a>\u00a0(four times) is the only other Oilers defenseman to record 65 or more assists in a single campaign. Bouchard also extended his point streak to four games (one goal, seven assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savoie pushed it to 3-0 at 6:10 after taking a cross-crease pass from Vasily Podkolzin\u00a0and stuffing it glove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-567875","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\/567875","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=567875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}