{"id":435580,"date":"2023-05-15T03:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435580"},"modified":"2023-05-15T03:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:04:52","slug":"golden-knights-top-oilers-5-2-and-clinch-the-series-4-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/golden-knights-top-oilers-5-2-and-clinch-the-series-4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights top Oilers 5-2 and clinch the series 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Marchessault had a hat trick as he notched 3 goals for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time in his NHL career in the playoffs, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/vegas-golden-knights\/\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> won against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/edmonton-oilers\/\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> 5-2 in Game 6 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB, and will go to the West Conference finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS TAKE GAME 6 AND ADVANCE TO THE WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL!!!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VegasBorn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VegasBorn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UKnightTheRealm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UKnightTheRealm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/58Meh6F7kd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/58Meh6F7kd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 z &#8211; Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoldenKnights\/status\/1657968307239264256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reilly Smith and William Karlsson also notched for the Vegas franchise, and Ivan Barbashev helped with 2 assists. Goalie Adin Hill stopped 39 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid and Warren Foegele netted in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> period for the Canadian team, and Edmonton even had the lead 2-1, but then everything went wrong for them.<\/p>\n<p>VGK will play in the Western Conference finals for the 4<sup>th<\/sup> time in the team&#8217;s 6-year history as their opponent will be Dallas or Seattle, as the 2 franchises will play Game 7 on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Vegas Golden Knights are in the conference finals for the fourth time in its six year existence (including semi-final round in 2021).<\/p>\n<p>Vegas will host the winner of Monday night&#8217;s Game 7 between the Seattle Kraken and Dallas Stars. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zhTLJuP7M0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zhTLJuP7M0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1657971458352586752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian team failed to reach for a second season in a row the West finals as they were eliminated by Colorado (the Stanley Cup winner) last season in the Conference finals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OiGddnG4VDc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Marchessault had a hat trick as he notched 3 goals for the 2nd time in his NHL career in the playoffs, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435581,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17007,17844,17212],"news_category":[16709,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17889,17982,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Vegas Golden Knights will play in the Western Conference final.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435580"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435580"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}