{"id":553664,"date":"2026-04-16T05:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553664\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:12:17","slug":"golden-knights-win-pacific-division-oilers-to-battle-for-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/553664\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights win Pacific Division, Oilers to battle for second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Division finally has a champion with one day remaining in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vegas-golden-knights\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"vegas-golden-knights\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> secured top spot in the Pacific with a 3-1 win over the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday, winning their division for the sixth time in franchise history. The Golden Knights will play the Utah Mammoth in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers enter play with 91 points while the Ducks and Kings each have 90. The Oilers hold the tiebreaker over both teams and will lock up the No. 2 seed in the division with one point against the Vancouver Canucks. However, the Oilers could drop all the way to the second wild-card spot \u2014 setting up a meeting with the Colorado Avalanche \u2014 with a regulation loss and wins by both the Kings and Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks face the Nashville Predators on the road, while the Kings travel to Calgary to play the Flames. All three games can be seen on Sportsnet.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pacific Division finally has a champion with one day remaining in the season. The Vegas Golden Knights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-553664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116412674444171612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553664","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=553664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}