{"id":541594,"date":"2026-04-05T05:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T05:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T05:49:20","slug":"golden-knights-push-point-streak-to-5-ease-past-oilers-in-pivotal-pacific-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541594\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights push point streak to 5, ease past Oilers in pivotal Pacific game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jeremy-lauzon-8478468\" title=\"Jeremy Lauzon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Lauzon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/brett-howden-8479353\" title=\"Brett Howden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett Howden<\/a> each had a goal and an assist for the Golden Knights (35-26-16), who have points in five straight (3-0-2) and began a four-game road trip. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/ivan-barbashev-8477964\" title=\"Ivan Barbashev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivan Barbashev<\/a>\u00a0had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas remained in third place in the Pacific Division, but moved one point behind the Oilers and Anaheim Ducks, who are tied for first.<\/p>\n<p>Evan\u00a0Bouchard scored the lone goal for the Oilers (39-29-9), who ended a season-high five-game winning streak and finished a four-game homestand 3-1-0. Connor Ingram made 28 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Howden put the Golden Knights up 1-0 at 11:43 of the first period. Jack Eichel&#8217;s initial wrist shot from the right face-off circle rebounded off the blocker into the left circle, where he snapped the puck past a diving Ingram.<\/p>\n<p>Colton Sissons made it 2-0 at 5:44 of the second period, redirecting a backdoor feed from Mitch Marner as he drove to the net.<\/p>\n<p>Lauzon extended the lead to 3-0 at 8:04 with his first goal in over two years. Eichel slid a pass to Lauzon in the left circle, where he beat Ingram with a snap shot short side for his first goal in 113 games dating back to Feb. 22, 2024, when he was a member of the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard cut the deficit to 3-1 at 19:26 when he took the puck from Golden Knights forward Pavel Dorofeyev along the boards at the blue line, skated into the slot and buried a wrist shot from the high slot to the blocker side that went bar down.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Stone made it 4-1 at 4:04 of the third period. Barbashev sent a shot on net from the left circle that Stone tipped past Ingram&#8217;s glove from in front.<\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Andersson scored a power-play goal with a wrist shot from above the right circle at 16:13 to secure the 5-1 final. Barbashev&#8217;s primary assist was his 200th in the NHL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Lauzon and Brett Howden each had a goal and an assist for the Golden Knights (35-26-16), who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-541594","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\/116350534926647635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541594","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=541594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}