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<\/p>\nSavoie has scored in three consecutive contests and has 13 points in his last 16 games while now doing extra duty on the power play and penalty kill in addition to being elevated to the top line with McDavid.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy confidence is definitely high right now,\u201d Savoie said. \u201cIt helps seeing the puck go in, and I\u2019m getting lots of opportunities right now with some pretty good players, obviously.<\/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
Edmonton is 27-5-5 when scoring first this season.<\/p>\n
The Oilers\u2019 strong run of late has happened without star forward Leon Draisaitl, out for the remainder of the regular season with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been playing the right way more,\u201d Knoblauch said. \u201cOne, we\u2019re at the end of the season and desperate to win hockey games. It\u2019s important to win games to get into the playoffs and move up the standings. The other one is we lost one of the best players in the NHL (Draisaitl) and had to change the way we were playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t have the luxury of having a superstar on our second line. We had to check harder and have other guys step up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connor Ingram recorded 27 saves to earn the win in the Edmonton net.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been playing great,\u201d said Oilers forward Jason Dickinson. \u201cHe\u2019s steady, he makes saves that you need him to make and not only that, he\u2019s also controlling pucks and making breakouts on his own that makes it easier to move up the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evan Bouchard picked up a pair of assists to extend his points streak against the Ducks to 11 games. The 26-year-old leads all NHL defencemen with 86 points and looks poised to become just the 13th blueliner in league history to hit the 90-point plateau.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth consecutive game McDavid has scored in and he leads the NHL with 31 goals since Dec. 1. The Oilers captain is now three points clear of Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning for the league scoring lead.<\/p>\n
The Oilers have gotten the job done at home against the Pacific, now 8-0-2 against divisional opponents at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been chipping away at it,\u201d said Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t been perfect. We still have a lot of work to do. The race is still tight, there\u2019s nothing guaranteed. So for us, it\u2019s not about just putting a few games together, we\u2019ve got to continue this through the final (eight). It\u2019s the time of year we like to play in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beckett Sennecke and Cutter Gauthier replied for the Ducks (41-28-4) who had their four-game win streak halted. Lukas Dostal made 30 stops for Anaheim.<\/p>\n
The Ducks have trailed in all 17 games they have played since the Olympic break but have been a tough team to put away, now sporting an 11-5-1 record during that span.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 29, 2026.<\/p>\n
Shane Jones, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Savoie has scored in three consecutive contests and has 13 points in his last 16 games while now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-568464","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\/568464","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=568464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}