{"id":247841,"date":"2025-10-24T05:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:35:08","slug":"oilers-6-5-canadiens-oct-23-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247841\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers 6-5 Canadiens (Oct 23, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565231\/vasily-podkolzin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> beat goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942714\/sam-montembeault\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Montembeault<\/a> with a backhander with 1:09 left and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/edm\/edmonton-oilers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> overcame a late two-goal deficit to edge the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/mtl\/montreal-canadiens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montreal Canadiens<\/a> 6-5 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Podkolzin scored for the first time this season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3114727\/leon-draisaitl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Draisaitl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/2562624\/ryan-nugent-hopkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> had power-play goals in a 58-second span midway through the third period to tie it.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5278081\/david-tomasek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Tomasek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5074\/adam-henrique\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Henrique<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3149619\/andrew-mangiapane\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Mangiapane<\/a> also scored for Edmonton. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5524\/calvin-pickard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Pickard<\/a> made 22 saves.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565237\/alex-newhook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Newhook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565236\/cole-caufield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a> each scored twice for Montreal, with the Canadians coming off a 2-1 overtime victory in Calgary on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3069687\/josh-anderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Anderson<\/a> also scored for Montreal. Montembeault stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Canadiens: At Vancouver on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Oilers: At Seattle on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; \u2014 Vasily Podkolzin beat goalie Sam Montembeault with a backhander with 1:09 left and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-247841","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\/247841","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=247841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}