{"id":591871,"date":"2026-04-09T05:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:52:07","slug":"connor-mcdavids-hat-trick-leads-edmonton-oilers-to-win-over-san-jose-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591871\/","title":{"rendered":"Connor McDavid’s hat trick leads Edmonton Oilers to win over San Jose Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Connor McDavid<\/a> scored his 15th career hat trick and finished with five points Wednesday night, leading the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> to a 5-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks<\/a> that moved them into sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n

McDavid controlled the game almost from the start, scoring on a power play in the first period and then twice in the second to make it 5-2. He also assisted on power-play goals by Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> and Jack Roslovic<\/a> to extend his NHL-leading point total to 133. The star center needs three goals in the final three games for his second career 50-goal season.<\/p>\n

Connor Ingram<\/a> made eight saves on 10 shots in two periods for Edmonton. Tristan Jarry<\/a> stopped all four shots he faced in the third.<\/p>\n

The win gave the Oilers 90 points, two more than Vegas in the division race. The Golden Knights have one game in hand.<\/p>\n

Macklin Celebrini<\/a> scored his 42nd goal for San Jose to give him 108 points this season, the third-most for a teenager behind Wayne Gretzky<\/a>\u2019s 137 and Sidney Crosby<\/a>\u2019s 120. <\/p>\n

Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> also scored for the Sharks, whose playoff hopes were dealt a big blow with the regulation loss. San Jose remains three points behind Nashville and two behind Los Angeles in the race for the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference. The Sharks have four games remaining with one game in hand over the Predators.<\/p>\n

Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> made 21 saves for San Jose.<\/p>\n

The Oilers scored on all three power-play chances in the best performance for that unit since Leon Draisaitl<\/a> went down with a lower-body injury on March 15 after scoring with the man advantage early in that game. Edmonton had been 3 for 27 on the power play in 10-plus games since Draisaitl\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Oilers: At the Los Angeles Kings<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Sharks: Visit the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Josh Dubow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Connor McDavid scored his 15th career hat trick and finished with five points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752,82],"class_list":["post-591871","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\/591871","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=591871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}