SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2013 What a MAMMOTH response after a MASSIVE night from the captain.<\/p>\n
Led by another supreme performance from Connor McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers responded in a big way from their defeat to the Utah Mammoth in the first leg of their home-and-away series on Thursday, earning a 6-2 victory at Delta Center on Saturday to stay unbeaten on the road.<\/p>\n
After the Mammoth handed them their first regulation loss of the season at Rogers Place on Thursday, the Oilers remained 5-0-0 on the road thanks to a five-point effort\u00a0 from McDavid, who recorded two goals and three assists to bring his unbelievable early-season totals to six goals & 17 assists over an eight-game point streak.<\/p>\n
“It’s crazy. He’s flying,” Hyman said of his captain. “It looks like he’s hit another gear this year, finishing like crazy, so it’s a good sign for our team.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers scored three times in the first period, starting 40 seconds in with McDavid\u2019s first contribution on a hard drive out wide before sliding the opener past netminder Karel Vejmelka, whose night would be over midway through the second period after allowing five goals on 17 shots.<\/p>\n
Zach Hyman marked his return to the lineup with a power-play goal before Mathieu Joseph closed out the opening frame with an unassisted breakaway finish for his first goal in Blue & Orange, and Trent Frederic stepped up in a heavyweight fight against Kevin Stenlund to show they were prepared to meet every demand.<\/p>\n
“I just thought that we came ready to play,” Head Coach Mike Babcock said. “They had just beaten us. We’re in their building.\u00a0 It’s a Saturday night. So anytime somebody beats you, or anytime you’re playing something back to back, you got to get to another level the next game. We clearly did that and got off to a great start.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2013 What a MAMMOTH response after a MASSIVE night from the captain. Led by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-937496","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\/937496","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=937496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}