Adam Henrique had a pair of goals and Stuart Skinner made 24 stops while the EDMONTON Oilers bleached the Golden Knights Vegas 3-0 Monday to take a 3-1 advance in their eliminatory series in the second round of the NHL.
“I think everyone realized how important the match was important and I think everyone was composed and really dug,” said head coach Kris Knoblauch after the match.
Evander Kane had a goal and a assist for the Oilers. Skinner was once again in Edmonton’s net after replacing the Calvin Pickard safeguard which had struck six consecutive victories before being injured in match 2. Skinner, who had 5.36 goals against the average in the match, improved at 1-3 in post-season.
“The greatest thing is simply to try to give your team a chance to win,” said Skinner after the match talking about his figures that the playoffs take place. “If you leave five years and it’s a five -year -old match, you give your team a chance to win.”
Adin Hill made 29 stops in defeat for the Golden Knights who are now in an elimination match.
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Edmonton took a quick start with a 1:27 goal in the opening period while Connor Brown stole a washer behind the net and sent him in front of Henrique in the slit and castigated a hill for his second goal of the playoffs.
The oilers took an advance of two goals with 6:57 to play to play in the first while Zach Hyman fought a washer behind the net in Henrique in front and that he reduced his second in the match, triggering a fray after Kane A Bowning on Hill on the game.
Edmonton increased by 3-0 a little more than seven minutes as part of the middle while Kane chose to shoot a two against one and that he struck the skate of a defender and diverted for his fourth in the post-season. Connor McDavid collected a decisive pass to extend his points sequence to eight personal matches. Edmonton entered the match with a post-season 14-2 file when Kane Marque.
There was no score in the third period.
Notes
The Oilers have won the eight of their 4 games since 2023.… It was Henrique’s first multi-Goal eliminatory match since his recruit season in 2012.… The veteran of the Oilers, Corey Perry, equaled Glenn Anderson for the matches of the playoffs played at 225. For Ty Emberson. … The Vegas striker, Jack Eichel, has stopped his sequence of points with six games. … Edmonton gave a goal with only 0.4 seconds to play to lose 4-3 in match 3. The previous five times where a team granted a goal in the last three seconds, they all rebounded to win the next match in the series. The oilers made six.
The next
Match 5 takes place Wednesday in Las Vegas.
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