{"id":547129,"date":"2026-04-08T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547129\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:50:16","slug":"pre-game-report-oilers-at-sharks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547129\/","title":{"rendered":"PRE-GAME REPORT: Oilers at Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edmonton was able to respond quickly more than once to Utah&#8217;s attempts at erasing its 3-1 lead in the first period after Curtis Lazar scored just 11 seconds following\u00a0J.J. Peterka&#8217;s opening goal in the first two minutes of the opening frame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a few leads tonight, and they were able to respond very quickly,&#8221; Knoblauch said. &#8220;I guess the one lead they had, we responded very quickly, too. \u00a0But I guess it was a game neither team wanted to run away with. \u00a0But it&#8217;s unfortunate. It was nice to see the offence was there; we had the goals, but just too many chances against.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite a power-play goal from Connor McDavid and Vasily Podkolzin putting them ahead again less than a minute after the Mammoth tied it up at 3-3, Utah would square it before the second intermission on Nick Schmaltz&#8217;s shorthanded tally with his second of the game in the last minute of the stanza.<\/p>\n<p>Colton Dach scored his first Oilers goal early in the third, but the Mammoth tied it on a tip-in from Alexander Kerfoot before winning it through Clayton Keller on the power play in overtime after Matt\u00a0Savoie was called for tripping early in the extra period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It felt good to be back with the guys and be back in the locker room and contribute,&#8221; Dach said. &#8220;But at the end of the day, we need to find a way to get the two points.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton was able to respond quickly more than once to Utah&#8217;s attempts at erasing its 3-1 lead in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-547129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks","12":"tag-sanjose","13":"tag-sanjosesharks","14":"tag-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368469267358861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547129","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=547129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}