After giving up two on the power play last time out on home ice against the Utah Mammoth, the Oilers\u2019 penalty kill has pitched in with two clean games without allowing a goal, a trend that reflects their commitment to an aggressive style this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just thought the last two games it was coming, but we keep giving up the odd goal,\u201d Head Coach Mike Babcock said. \u201cI thought the last two games against two really good power plays, we were way more assertive.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the break came in overtime on Hughes\u2019 too-many-men penalty, that\u2019s all the Oilers needed to give Bouchard his cake \u2013 and let him eat it, too \u2013 with a snapshot under the crossbar on\u00a0Jesper Wallstedt that capped off a special night for No. 2 and the special teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just keep coming, and they know it’s a patient game, and you just keep plugging away, and you’re going to get a break,\u201d Babcock said. \u201cAnd these guys are going to make their own breaks anyway, and you saw that on the power play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After giving up two on the power play last time out on home ice against the Utah Mammoth,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-941104","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\/941104","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=941104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}