SAN JOSE, CA \u2013 Went fishing in the tank and reeled in our fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n
The Edmonton Oilers improved to 4-0-1 this season after\u00a0goaltender Tristan Jarry made 19 saves, forward Alex Formenton scored his\u00a0first goal in Blue & Orange, and\u00a0Mattias Ekholm and Vasily Podkolzin tallied goals on Saturday afternoon in a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center.<\/p>\n
“I just liked that we stayed patient,\u201d Edmonton coach Mike Babcock said. \u201cWe stuck with the plan. Their coach did a real good job and their guys were organized. I thought we had to do it the hard way.”<\/p>\n
Ekholm blasted home the opener on a 91.7 MPH slap shot with 7:23 left in the first period, and the Oilers never looked back, giving up a goal to Macklin Celebrini in the final frame but locking it down defensively the rest of the way and more than doubling their shot totals from the first two periods to give the club its best start since the 2021-22 campaign (5-0-0).<\/p>\n
“I think we just played a simple game,” Jarry said. “I think when things weren’t going our way, or they were kind of clogging up the middle, we weren’t getting frustrated with it. We stuck to our game plan and did what we needed to, and I think we showed a lot of character tonight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, CA \u2013 Went fishing in the tank and reeled in our fourth straight victory. The Edmonton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-928840","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\/928840","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=928840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}