EDMONTON, AB \u2013\u00a0Extinguished.<\/p>\n
Behind a 24-save shutout from Tristan Jarry, multiple assists for Connor McDavid & Nugent Hopkins and depth scoring from Mathieu Joseph, Kasperi Kapanen and Alex Formenton, the Edmonton Oilers earned a 4-0 victory over the Calgary Flames to take this season\u2019s first Battle of Alberta on Wednesday at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n
Joseph opened the scoring for the Oilers 7:26 into the first period before Ekholm doubled Edmonton\u2019s advantage less than five minutes into the middle frame, putting the Blue & Orange on course to put an end to Calgary\u2019s recent four-game win streak.<\/p>\n
Kapanen\u2019s power-play goal less than a minute into the third period was followed up only 21 seconds later by Formenton, who capitalized on some hard work from Jason Dickinson creating a turnover in Calgary\u2019s zone to cap off the scoring in a 4-0 victory.<\/p>\n
“We wanted to win the game, first and foremost, but I thought the game was pretty solid,” Said McDavid, who had two assists. “It was what we needed to do tonight. Calgary had been playing really well and scoring lots of goals, so we had to defend hard and find a way to get a win.”<\/p>\n
Jarry held it down from the blue paint by stopping all 24 shots he faced to post his 24th career shutout, improving his record to 3-1-2 this season and helping the Oilers bounce back from a two-game losing skid in the final game of their five-game homestand.<\/p>\n
The Oilers will now hit the road for three games in New York, starting with a matin\u00e9e clash against the Islanders on Saturday in the first of back-to-back games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013\u00a0Extinguished. Behind a 24-save shutout from Tristan Jarry, multiple assists for Connor McDavid & Nugent Hopkins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-950186","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\/950186","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=950186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}