{"id":257351,"date":"2026-04-08T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:23:07","slug":"pacific-division-foes-meet-when-san-jose-hosts-edmonton-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257351\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Division foes meet when San Jose hosts Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/edmonton-oilers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> (39-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/san-jose-sharks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> (37-32-7, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">San Jose, California; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Oilers -124, Sharks +104; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Pacific Division opponents meet when the San Jose Sharks play the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">San Jose is 10-10-3 against the Pacific Division and 37-32-7 overall. The Sharks have a -36 scoring differential, with 232 total goals scored and 268 allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Edmonton is 39-29-10 overall with a 14-6-3 record against the Pacific Division. The Oilers have gone 37-9-8 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The teams square off Wednesday for the fourth time this season. The Oilers won 5-3 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/macklin-celebrini-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> has 41 goals and 66 assists for the Sharks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/alexander-wennberg-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Wennberg<\/a> has five goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/connor-mcdavid-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> has 44 goals and 84 assists for the Oilers. Matthew Savoie has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Sharks: 5-4-1, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.6 assists, 3.6 penalties and 9.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Oilers: 6-3-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.1 assists, 2.9 penalties and 6.7 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Sharks: Ryan Reaves: out (hamd).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Oilers: Leon Draisaitl: out (lower-body), Zach Hyman: out (undisclosed), Mattias Janmark: out for season (undisclosed).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers (39-29-10, in the Pacific Division) vs. San Jose Sharks (37-32-7, in the Pacific Division) San Jose,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2094,18693,2070,80631,1035,896,88,90,89,98],"class_list":{"0":"post-257351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-alexander-wennberg","9":"tag-connor-mcdavid","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-macklin-celebrini","13":"tag-national-hockey-league","14":"tag-san-jose","15":"tag-san-jose-headlines","16":"tag-san-jose-news","17":"tag-san-jose-sharks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257351","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=257351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}