{"id":932550,"date":"2026-10-14T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932550\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:30:09","slug":"mcdavid-gets-four-points-oilers-defeat-slumping-kings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932550\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid gets four points, Oilers defeat slumping Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> scored twice, and Leon Draisaitl<\/a> had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (5-0-1), who swept a three-game road trip to remain perfect away from home (4-0-0). Evan Bouchard<\/a>\u00a0had two assists, and Levi made 39 saves in his fourth straight win.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, like it\u2019s pretty impressive how we\u2019re able to score ballistically and also play like a really solid defensive game,\u201d Levi said. \u201cThe message that (head coach Mike Babcock) sent is that we have better. I mean, if that\u2019s our bad game, that\u2019s a great game. That\u2019s a great bad game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brandt Clarke<\/a> scored for the Kings (0-3-2), who have lost five straight and were held to one goal for the third straight game (0-2-1).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe belief\u2019s there in our group, but just not good enough right now,\u201d Los Angeles forward Trevor Moore<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cConcern, it\u2019s a tough word because I believe in our group, but it\u2019s not (expletive) good enough right now, and we got to figure it out fast. Positive is that there\u2019s a lot of games left, so we just got to turn the page and figure it out.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Darcy Kuemper<\/a> stopped four of seven shots before being replaced to start the second period by Anton Forsberg<\/a>, who made nine saves.<\/p>\n

The Oilers led 3-0 after the first period, with McDavid factoring on all three goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we started on time, got going,\u201d Babcock said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think at any time we were fantastic tonight, but McDavid and the big boys were great.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDavid found Draisaitl at the bottom of the left face-off circle for a sharp-angle shot to open the scoring at 7:16.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been fun,\u201d McDavid said of playing with Draisaitl at even strength to start the season. \u201cLeon\u2019s one of the best players in the world. And to be able to play with him and \u2018Podzi,\u2019 \u2018Bouchy\u2019 a lot of shifts, \u2018Eky\u2019(Mattias Ekholm), it\u2019s a fun unit to be out there with. To get a nice string of games together to kind of build a little bit of chemistry and work on things, it\u2019s been a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Podkolzin made it 2-0 exactly one minute later on the power play at 8:16. He put in McDavid\u2019s rebound from the left circle after McDavid had entered the zone with speed and shot from the right circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust mental lapses in the first, and it feels like every game we\u2019re just making little mistake here and there that\u2019s just costing us games, and there\u2019s no excuse for it,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vasily Podkolzin scored twice, and Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist for the Oilers (5-0-1), who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-932550","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\/932550","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=932550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}