It was Hyman’s 33rd goal with the assist coming from McDavid.Įdmonton enjoyed a 6-3 lead going into the second intermission. Draisaitl triggered a rush and then fed former San Jose Sharks villain Evander Kane, who buried the puck past Quick for a 5-3 Oilers lead.Įdmonton fans were cheering again in the Big Ice House by the Strip when Zach Hyman beat an outmatched Quick. He noted Laurent Brossoit will be goal for the VGK against the Sharks in San Jose Thursday.Ĭonnor McDavid may be the most spectacular hockey player on earth and his buddy, Leon Draisaitl, isn’t too shabby either. “I’m not putting it on Jonathan Quick,” he said. Let’s just say Quick is not on top of his game tonight.īut Cassidy did not pin the loss on Quick. The Oilers’ Darnell Nurse scored his tenth off a sharp angle against VGK netminder Jonathan Quick and Edmonton was leading, 4-3. In the first few minutes of the middle stanza, VGK’s Michael Amadio found some loose change in front of the Edmonton net and fired the puck past Oilers goalie Stuart Skinner. Original Misfits Jonathan Marchessault (25) and William Karlsson (14 - a shorty) scored for the Knights in the opening period.Įvan Bouchard, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Leon Draisaitl (47th goal on the power play) scored for Edmonton. ![]() “If we play like we did today, we’re out,” Cassidy said at his postgame presser. Knights coach Bruce Cassidy’s comments summed up the VGK loss: “We didn’t defend at our typical level.”Ĭassidy said the Golden Knights tried to beat the offensively-gifted Edmonton club at its own game and that resulted in the loss. ![]() The Golden Knights have 98 points, while the Oilers improved to 95 points in the division as the big crowd chanted, “Let’s go Oilers,” late in the game. The Edmonton Oilers scored four straight goals starting midway through period two and rolled to an easy 7-4 win over Vegas before an announced crowd of 18,391. ![]() ![]() The bad news was that the Oilers scored three goals.Īfter one period, division rival Edmonton led the VGK, 3-2, before a crowd with thousands of Oilers fans. Well, the good news for the Vegas Golden Knights tonight was that they scored two goals on their first three shots on goal against the Edmonton Oilers in the first period.
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