{"id":414202,"date":"2026-01-18T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:40:19","slug":"roslovic-kapanen-step-up-for-edmonton-oilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/414202\/","title":{"rendered":"Roslovic, Kapanen step up for Edmonton Oilers"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER \u2013 With sniper Leon Draisaitl out of the lineup, the Edmonton Oilers knew they\u2019d need other players to step up.<\/p>\n

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Kasperi Kapanen and Jack Roslovic emphatically answered the call Saturday.<\/p>\n

Each put up a pair of goals as the Oilers (24-17-8) blanked the struggling Canucks 6-0 in Vancouver.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re missing a key player, somebody really important to your team, it just seems like everyone, just their game steps up,\u201d said Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re galvanized and they play together and that\u2019s tonight. I think about, throughout our lineup, how many guys really played one of their best games tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton announced earlier Saturday that Draisaitl had returned to Germany to attend to a family illness. It\u2019s expected the 30-year-old star will return next week.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously, we\u2019re missing Leon and definitely would like to have him here, and we\u2019re thinking about him and his family (and) what\u2019s going on right now,\u201d Knoblauch said.<\/p>\n

When Edmonton\u2019s offence erupted with six goals in the second period, it was Kapanen and Roslovic leading the charge.<\/p>\n

Roslovic broke a 0-0 deadlock 3:11 into the frame, chipping a shot toward the net from the bottom of the faceoff circle. The puck squirted through the legs of Canucks netminder Nikita Tolopilo and in.<\/p>\n

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Vancouver challenged the play for goalie interference, but the tally stood after video review, with officials saying Edmonton\u2019s Curtis Lazar was pushed into Tolopilo by Canucks forward Max Sasson.<\/p>\n

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The goal marked Roslovic\u2019s first point in eight games.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve really been trying hard,\u201d the centre said of his line. \u201cI think it\u2019s not just tonight. It\u2019s been the last handful of games that we\u2019ve been really working at trying to get one to go in, and I think we\u2019ve played really well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw a few go in tonight, so hopefully that gives us all a little more confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Midway through the second, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins sliced a long pass up to Kapanen, who went one-on-one with Tolopilo and blasted a shot in off the post to give the Oilers a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

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It was Kapanen\u2019s second goal of the season. He added a third just over three minutes later.<\/p>\n

After missing 36 games with a lower-body injury, the Finnish winger has seven points in seven games since rejoining the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like where our team\u2019s at right now. Everybody\u2019s stepping up,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, we miss Leo, and we wish him the best, and to him and his family, obviously going through a lot right now, so obviously playing for him as well. So big win today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tristan Jarry stopped all 31 shots he faced to record his first shutout since being traded to Edmonton from the Pittsburgh Penguins on Dec. 12.<\/p>\n

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The performance was nothing new for Kapanen, who played alongside the goalie with the Penguins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen it before in Pitt,\u201d Kapanen said. \u201cGuys (who) have played against him a bunch, we all know he\u2019s a tremendous goalie. So he was incredible today, and a big reason why we won.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very calm, which I think makes the team calm.\u201d<\/p>\n

TOUGH DAYS<\/p>\n

The Canucks (16-27-5) have now lost 10 games in a row (0-8-2) and sit at the bottom of the NHL standings.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a difficult stretch, admitted Brock Boeser.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not fun and it\u2019s frustrating and it\u2019s hard,\u201d said the winger, who played his 600th regular-season game Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t want to be in this position, but I\u2019m trying to be the best leader I can be for these young guys and try and to help out. But it takes the whole team. We need the whole team each and every game that we go into.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canucks head coach Adam Foote has been in the same position as a player and knows all too well how his team is feeling.<\/p>\n

The only way forward, he said, is to keep pushing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s going to be another battle tomorrow,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd (we have to keep) practising and learning and growing from this. It stings, but it probably helps you grow the fastest.\u201d<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 18, 2026.<\/p>\n

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