{"id":676529,"date":"2026-10-02T04:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/676529\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:06:13","slug":"edmonton-oilers-tally-eight-goals-in-less-than-two-periods-vs-canucks-connor-mcdavid-leads-with-four-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/676529\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers tally eight goals in less than two periods vs. Canucks; Connor McDavid leads with four points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> got eight goals from eight different goal scorers in just 28 minutes to start Thursday\u2019s game , and they now have an 8-3 lead over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> through two periods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/connor-mcdavid\/8478402\" target=\"_blank\">Connor McDavid<\/a> is leading the way with a goal and three assists, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/evan-bouchard\/8480803\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/evan-bouchard\/8480803\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Bouchard<\/a> has his league-leading 4th goal of the year along with two assists of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">McDavid and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kasperi-kapanen\/8477953\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kasperi-kapanen\/8477953\" target=\"_blank\">Kasperi Kapanen<\/a> both scored shorthanded goals while killing the same minor penalty midway through the second period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-lankinen\/8480947\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevin-lankinen\/8480947\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Lankinen<\/a> allowed all eight goals for the Canucks before being lifted in favour of Leevi Merilainen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canucks topped the Oilers 6-5 in overtime in the opening game of the season for both teams on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers got eight goals from eight different goal scorers in just 28 minutes to start Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[32611,198,146,32610,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":["post-676529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton-oilers","tag-connor-mcdavid-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478402","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-edmonton-oilers-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-22","tag-edmontonoilers","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-oilers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117369345340385948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676529","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=676529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}