{"id":544132,"date":"2026-04-06T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544132\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:02:13","slug":"golden-knights-beat-oilers-5-1-to-tighten-pacific-division-race-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544132\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights beat Oilers 5-1 to tighten Pacific Division race"},"content":{"rendered":"

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’s first three games as coach.<\/p>\n

Vegas moved a point back of Edmonton and Anaheim for the division lead, snapping the Oilers’ season-best, five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

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

Evan Bouchard scored for Edmonton, and Connor Ingram made 28 saves.<\/p>\n

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

Tortorella, who replaced the fired Bruce Cassidy, coached Hart in Philadelphia from 2022-24.<\/p>\n

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The Golden Knights continue their road trip against the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Pregame coverage is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on Vegas 34 and KnightTime+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Carter Hart made 31 saves and the Vegas Golden Knights tightened the Pacific Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[3504,3505,198,146,5300,3506,5,3507,3508,3509,3510,3511,285,4,3512,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-544132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-13-action-news","9":"tag-channel-13","10":"tag-edmonton","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-edmontonoilers","13":"tag-go-knights-go","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-hockey-in-las-vegas","16":"tag-hockey-in-vegas","17":"tag-ktnv-tv-channel-13","18":"tag-las-vegas-hockey","19":"tag-las-vegas-sports","20":"tag-national-hockey-league","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-nhl-in-las-vegas","23":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116359079135785074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544132","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=544132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}