{"id":526543,"date":"2026-03-27T22:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526543\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:40:17","slug":"pre-game-report-oilers-vs-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526543\/","title":{"rendered":"PRE-GAME REPORT: Oilers vs. Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The last two games have been both really good,&#8221; Ingram said. &#8220;We found a way to play that&#8217;s giving us success and now it&#8217;s just not being stubborn and sticking with it, just playing simple. We&#8217;re a good enough hockey club where we&#8217;re going to get our chances, so as long as we don&#8217;t give them any, we&#8217;re going to be just fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further to Ingram&#8217;s analysis, Coach\u00a0Knoblauch says that the Oilers are currently playing the right way to not only earn a playoff spot and win the Pacific Division, but compete and thrive in the postseason like they have over two straight trips to the Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re looking more like we&#8217;re playing a playoff game, like things matter,&#8221; Knoblauch said. &#8220;Attention to detail and we&#8217;re simplifying our game. It&#8217;s nice to see. And obviously, the games are so important right now that everyone seems like they&#8217;re dialled in and needing to. They know the urgency to play right.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The last two games have been both really good,&#8221; Ingram said. &#8220;We found a way to play that&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-526543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116303549292353317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526543","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=526543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}