{"id":189539,"date":"2025-09-29T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189539\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:44:07","slug":"sept-28-nhl-preseason-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/189539\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 28: NHL Preseason Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and Connor McDavid<\/a> combined for seven points for the Edmonton Oilers in a 4-3 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl had two goals and two assists, and McDavid had a goal and two assists for Edmonton (4-1-1) in what was the second game of the preseason for each forward. Stuart Skinner made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

Aatu Raty<\/a>, Braeden Cootes<\/a> and Jonathan Lekkerimaki<\/a> scored for the Canucks (2-2-0). Thatcher Demko<\/a> made 20 saves.<\/p>\n

McDavid scored his first goal of the preseason at 1:28 of the first period, collecting a loose puck off a scramble behind the net and tucking it in past Demko.<\/p>\n

Trent Frederic<\/a> made it 2-0 at 11:37, scoring on a rebound in front off a shot from McDavid.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl scored his first of the preseason on the power play at 16:57 of the second period to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n

Raty made it 3-1 at 3:53 of the third period, picking the top corner on a shot from the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

Cootes cut it to 3-2 at 4:36, banking in a centering pass off the skate of Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm<\/a> in front.<\/p>\n

Draisaitl scored his second goal of the game at 9:27. He converted a pass from McDavid on a 2-on-1 rush against Canucks defenseman Filip Hronek<\/a> to push the lead to 4-2.<\/p>\n

Lekkerimaki got the Canucks to within 4-3 at 16:52 when he scored during a 6-on-5 with Demko on the bench for an extra attacker. — Derek Van Diest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid combined for seven points for the Edmonton Oilers in a 4-3 win against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-189539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}