{"id":583702,"date":"2026-04-05T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:42:08","slug":"golden-knights-push-point-streak-to-5-ease-past-oilers-in-pivotal-pacific-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583702\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights push point streak to 5, ease past Oilers in pivotal Pacific game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/evan-bouchard-8480803\" title=\"Evan Bouchard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Bouchard<\/a> scored the lone goal for the Oilers (39-29-9), who ended a season-high five-game winning streak and finished a four-game homestand 3-1-0. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/connor-ingram-8478971\" title=\"Connor Ingram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Ingram<\/a>\u00a0made 28 saves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen things are going well, you forget about those details, those first couple strides coming back, get a little extra aggressive on the pinch,\u201d Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. \u201cYou\u2019re thinking maybe you\u2019re overconfident, getting a little bit lazy or whatever it is, I think we\u2019re just not paying attention to those details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, a lot of stuff that we\u2019ve just got to clean up. Easily fixable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howden put the Golden Knights up 1-0 at 11:43 of the first period. Eichel&#8217;s initial wrist shot from the right face-off circle rebounded off the blocker into the left circle, where he snapped the puck past a diving Ingram.<\/p>\n<p>Sissons made it 2-0 at 5:44 of the second period, redirecting a backdoor feed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mitchell-marner-8478483\" title=\"Mitch Marner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitch Marner<\/a>\u00a0as he drove to the net.<\/p>\n<p>Lauzon extended the lead to 3-0 at 8:04 with his first goal in over two years. Eichel slid a pass to Lauzon in the left circle, where he beat Ingram with a snap shot short side for his first goal in 113 games dating back to Feb. 22, 2024, when he was a member of the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great moment I was waiting for it for a long time,\u201d Lauzon said. \u201cI thought our team played unbelievable tonight and it\u2019s a huge win for our club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we were relentless on the forecheck, we were good down low and we put a lot of pressure on those &#8216;D.&#8217; And it paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Bouchard scored the lone goal for the Oilers (39-29-9), who ended a season-high five-game winning streak and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-583702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583702","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=583702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}