{"id":542463,"date":"2026-04-05T18:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:08:35","slug":"golden-knights-beat-oilers-5-1-to-tighten-pacific-division-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542463\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights beat Oilers 5-1 to tighten Pacific Division race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 Carter Hart made 31 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights tightened the Pacific Division race, beating the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 on Saturday night to remain perfect in John Tortorella&#8217;s first three games as coach.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas moved a point back of Edmonton and Anaheim for the division lead, snapping the Oilers&#8217; season-best, five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Howden and Jeremy Lauzon each had a goal and an assist, Colton Sissons, Mark Stone and Rasmus Andersson also scored and Jack Eichel had three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Bouchard scored for Edmonton, and Connor Ingram made 28 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Hart was activated off injured reserve and backstopped Vegas to a 6-3 home victory over Calgary on Thursday night. He had been out since injuring his left leg Jan. 8 against Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>Tortorella, who replaced the fired Bruce Cassidy, coached Hart in Philadelphia from 2022-24.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Golden Knights: At Vancouver on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Vegas Golden Knights players celebrate a goal against the Edmonton...\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"433.125\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775412515_989_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights players celebrate a goal against the Edmonton Oilers during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Edmonton, Alberta, on Saturday April 4, 2026. Credit: AP\/JASON FRANSON<\/p>\n<p>Oilers: At Utah on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 Carter Hart made 31 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights tightened the Pacific Division race,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5129],"tags":[146,149,5317,5,4,74,39,5316,1105],"class_list":{"0":"post-542463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-edmonton-oilers","9":"tag-golden-knights","10":"tag-goldenknights","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-vegas","14":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","15":"tag-vegasgoldenknights","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353441796181875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542463","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=542463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}