EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Five in a row and thriving in the race for the Pacific Division title.<\/p>\n
Adam Henrique and Matt Savoie each tallied goals, while Tristan Jarry made 17 saves in a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks at Rogers Place on Thursday night that gives the Edmonton Oilers five straight wins and a share of first place in the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
“It’s huge,” Savoie said. “We’re pushing. We’re focusing on one game at a time right now, and when we get to the playoffs, it’s about focusing on that. So we’re really excited and focusing on one game at a time.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers took the lead on Henrique’s third goal of the season 5:32 into the second period before Savoie banked home his 15th tally nearly seven minutes later on the power play, scoring his fourth goal in five games to end a six-game goalless drought for their man advantage dating back to Mar. 17.<\/p>\n
Nick Lardis scored for Chicago to cut the lead to one in the third period, but Vasily Podkolzin’s 17th goal of the campaign on an empty net with 1:01 remaining sealed his team’s fifth straight win, which puts them into a tie with Anaheim on 87 points as they continue to push for a division title.<\/p>\n
“You want to give yourself the best opportunity, and a lot of times that’s finishing first,” Henrique said. “We know from the past that it doesn’t matter, but you want to try to get there and try to take advantage of that when you can.\u00a0 That’s obviously a goal for everybody.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers will entertain the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday to close out their four-game homestand with the chance\u00a0to make it six in a row and earn two more crucial points in the Pacific playoff race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Five in a row and thriving in the race for the Pacific Division title. Adam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538202,"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-538201","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\/116339950741034609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538201","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=538201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}