{"id":542533,"date":"2026-04-05T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:59:53","slug":"golden-knights-beat-oilers-5-1-to-tighten-pacific-division-race-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542533\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights beat Oilers 5-1 to tighten Pacific Division race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \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>Advertisement<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hart-golden-knights-flames-injured-reserve-60efabd05cee7cdb516776aaa8882c99?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:activated off injured reserve;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;activated off injured reserve&quot;}\" class=\"link \">activated off injured reserve<\/a> 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>Oilers: At Utah on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Carter Hart made 31 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights tightened the Pacific Division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[1018,1741,895,88,7950,2663,198,146,425,149,5317,5,1041,9247,348,1040,4,2219,1467,3327,893,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-542533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-brett-howden","10":"tag-calgary","11":"tag-carter-hart","12":"tag-colton-sissons","13":"tag-connor-ingram","14":"tag-edmonton","15":"tag-edmonton-oilers","16":"tag-evan-bouchard","17":"tag-golden-knights","18":"tag-goldenknights","19":"tag-hockey","20":"tag-jack-eichel","21":"tag-jeremy-lauzon","22":"tag-john-tortorella","23":"tag-mark-stone","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-pacific-division","26":"tag-philadelphia","27":"tag-rasmus-andersson","28":"tag-vancouver","29":"tag-vegas","30":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","31":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353644882401822","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542533","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=542533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}