{"id":545416,"date":"2026-04-07T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545416\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:53:32","slug":"golden-knights-beat-oilers-5-1-to-tighten-pacific-division-race-las-vegas-sun-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545416\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights beat Oilers 5-1 to tighten Pacific Division race &#8211;\nLas Vegas Sun News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"datePublished\">Sunday, April 5, 2026 | 10:32 a.m.<\/p>\n<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\u00a0<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\">activated off injured reserve<\/a>\u00a0and 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, April 5, 2026 | 10:32 a.m. EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 Carter Hart made 31 saves and the Vegas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-545416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116363290557523120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545416","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=545416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}