{"id":540090,"date":"2026-04-04T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540090\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:14:24","slug":"oilers-3-1-blackhawks-apr-2-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540090\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers 3-1 Blackhawks (Apr 2, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

EDMONTON, Alberta — \u2014 Connor McDavid<\/a> set up Matt Savoie<\/a>‘s power-play goal to pad his NHL-leading points total and help the Edmonton Oilers<\/a> win their season-high fifth straight game, 3-1 over the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Chicago lost its fifth straight to drop out of playoff contention, extending its postseason drought to six seasons. Edmonton matched Pacific Division-leading Anaheim with 87 points, but has played one more game than the Ducks.<\/p>\n

Adam Henrique<\/a> and Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> also scored for the Oilers, and Tristan Jarry<\/a> made 17 saves. They have won seven of their last nine, surging with star forward Leon Draisaitl<\/a> out for the rest of the regular season because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Nick Lardis<\/a> scored for Chicago. Spencer Knight<\/a> stopped 31 shots for Chicago, and Arvid Soderblom<\/a> made four saves and allowed a goal while Knight dealt with an equipment issue.<\/p>\n

McDavid’s goals streak ended at five games. He has 43 goals and 83 assists for 126 points, two more than Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov<\/a> for the NHL lead.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Blackhawks: At Seattle on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Oilers: Host Vegas on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta — \u2014 Connor McDavid set up Matt Savoie‘s power-play goal to pad his NHL-leading points total…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540091,"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-540090","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\/116346149148401389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540090","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=540090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}