VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 The Young Guns came out firing against a strong Canucks squad, and they were the last ones standing at\u00a0the end of 60 minutes of hard-fought pre-season hockey.<\/p>\n
Backstopped by a 25-save performance from\u00a0Tristan Jarry and\u00a0tallies from Isaac Howard & Quinn Hutson, the Edmonton Oilers earned an impressive preseason\u00a02-1 victory over a near full-strength Vancouver Canucks on Thursday at Rogers Arena.<\/p>\n
“I thought the kids played great in front of me,” Jarry said. “They worked their butts off in both zones. They were doing everything right, and they implemented everything we’ve been going through in practice tonight. I think they did a great job.<\/p>\n
Leading a mostly AHL-focused lineup from the Blue & Orange, Howard finished with a goal & an assist, opening the scoring 3:58 into the first period before picking up the primary helper on Hutson’s tally that doubled Edmonton’s advantage before the five-minute mark of the middle frame.<\/p>\n
The Canucks cut the lead to 2-1 on the power play only 1:33 later, but that would be all the hosts could muster against a resilient Jarry between the pipes for the Oilers and some terrific penalty-killing and defending over the final 40 minutes of regulation.<\/p>\n
Forward Viljami Marjala and defenceman Tomas\u00a0Cibulka both picked up assists.<\/p>\n
The Oilers improve to 3-0-0 in the preseason and will wrap up their exhibition schedule on Saturday with their final tune-up against the Calgary Flames at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, BC \u2013 The Young Guns came out firing against a strong Canucks squad, and they were the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-908715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908715","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=908715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}