{"id":241354,"date":"2026-03-28T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:45:08","slug":"mcdavid-has-3-points-oilers-hold-off-ducks-to-gain-in-pacific-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241354\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid has 3 points, Oilers hold off Ducks to gain in Pacific race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Hyman had a goal and an assist, and Matt Savoie scored in his third straight game for the Oilers (37-28-9), who won three games in a row for just the second time this season. Evan Bouchard had two assists, and Connor Ingram made 27 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton pulled within three points of Anaheim, which has a game in hand, for first place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier and Beckett Sennecke scored, and John Carlson had two assists for the Ducks (41-28-4), who had four straight wins during a six-game point streak (5-0-1). Lukas Dostal made 30 saves.<\/p>\n<p>McDavid put Edmonton ahead 1-0 at 7:36 of the second period after corralling a bouncing puck off a slap shot from the point by Evan Bouchard that went wide. Carlson sent a clearing attempt off McDavid\u2019s skates at the side of the net before both McDavid and Max Jones took a backhand stab at the puck, with Jones touching it first and McDavid tapping past Dostal\u2019s\u2019 blocker midair.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonton outshot Anaheim 11-3 in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Roslovic extended it to 2-0 with his 20th goal of the season at 4:59 of the third period. He took a pass from the slot by Hyman on an odd-man rush and scored five-hole as Dostal came across the crease.<\/p>\n<p>Savoie pushed it to 3-0 at 6:10 after taking a cross-crease pass from Vasily Podkolzin and stuffing it glove side past Dostal from in tight.<\/p>\n<p>Sennecke cut it to 3-1 at 6:53, tipping a wrist shot from the point by Carlson through Ingram\u2019s legs.<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier made it 3-2 at 9:41, taking a pass from behind the net by Jeffrey Viel, following another point shot from Carlson, and snapping it into open space stick side behind Ingram.<\/p>\n<p>Hyman scored into an empty net on a pass from McDavid with 17 seconds remaining for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Hyman had a goal and an assist, and Matt Savoie scored in his third straight game for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-241354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}