{"id":24272,"date":"2025-05-10T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/24272\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:04:13","slug":"oilers-g-pickard-injured-skinner-to-start-g3-vs-golden-knights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/24272\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers G Pickard injured; Skinner to start G3 vs. Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/edm\/edmonton-oilers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> switched goaltenders for Game 3 of their second-round playoff series against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/vgk\/vegas-golden-knights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, with <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4268767\/stuart-skinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stuart Skinner<\/a> replacing <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5524\/calvin-pickard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Calvin Pickard<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pickard, who took over as Edmonton&#8217;s starter during a first-round series against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/la\/los-angeles-kings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, was day-to-day, Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pickard was stellar in Edmonton&#8217;s 5-4 overtime win in Game 2 with 28 saves, but he appeared uncomfortable in the third period and was seen shaking out his left leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pickard replaced regular-season starter Skinner when the Oilers trailed the Kings 2-0 in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Oilers won six in a row with Pickard in net and took a 2-0 series lead home from Las Vegas to Rogers Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Skinner is 19-17 in career playoff games with the Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta &#8212; The Edmonton Oilers switched goaltenders for Game 3 of their second-round playoff series against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[6750,198,146,5300,266,5,145,4,24,6749,6748,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-24272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-6750","9":"tag-edmonton","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers","11":"tag-edmontonoilers","12":"tag-espn","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-oilers","17":"tag-pickard-calvin","18":"tag-skinner-stuart","19":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114485099465987482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}