{"id":481345,"date":"2024-03-30T19:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481345"},"modified":"2024-03-30T19:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T23:27:02","slug":"mcdavid-scores-twice-as-oilers-defeat-ducks-6-1","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mcdavid-scores-twice-as-oilers-defeat-ducks-6-1\/","title":{"rendered":"McDavid scores twice as Oilers defeat Ducks 6-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor McDavid notched 2 goals and had an assist to take the lead in points this campaign as the Edmonton Oilers trashed the Anaheim Ducks 6-1 at Rogers Place in Edmonton, AB.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Connor McDavid recorded three points, including his league-leading 125th point of the season, to lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Oilers<\/a> to a 6-1 win at Rogers Place today! With the victory, Edmonton improved to 45-23-4! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LetsGoOilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LetsGoOilers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McDavid \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf4e<br \/>Ekholm \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf4e\ud83c\udf4e<br \/>Hyman \ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf4e<br \/>Draisaitl \ud83c\udf4e\ud83c\udf4e<br \/>[1\/2] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BbniFhkv45\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BbniFhkv45<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Friesen \ud83c\udfd2 (@EricJFriesen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricJFriesen\/status\/1774206029531627654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mattias Ekholm scored and provided 2 assists for Edmonton, who have won 3 straight matches. Adam Henrique, Warren Foegele and Zach Hyman also notched for the victory. Calvin Pickard stopped 22 shots in just missing his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> shutout of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Killorn notched the only goal for Anaheim in the final minutes, as his team has lost 4 consecutive and gone 1-9-1 in their last 11 games away from home. John Gibson stopped 31 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Oilers began the game great and notched the 1<sup>st<\/sup> goal before 4 minutes were passed. Edmonton ended up winning the 1st period 3-0 as only 20 minutes after the clash began, it became clear who would win it. Anaheim notched their only goal with fewer than 5 minutes until the end of the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There&#39;s a new League leader in points! <\/p>\n<p>Connor McDavid&#39;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmcdavid97?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cmcdavid97<\/a>) third point of the game gives him 125 on the season! \ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUk8qbTlf1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MUk8qbTlf1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/1774199992569200645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Anaheim plays the 4<sup>th<\/sup> match of a 5-match trip in Canada vs. the Canucks tomorrow, while Edmonton begins a 2-match trip vs. the Blues at the beginning of the next week.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9qyDmSoLKBo?si=VfjIwi_WgHj6N4K3\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor McDavid notched 2 goals and had an assist to take the lead in points this campaign as the Edmonton Oilers trashed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481346,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16894,17007,17844],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18808,17889,6811],"acf":{"announce":"Connor had 2 goals and an assist in Edmonton\u2019s victory.","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\/481345"}],"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=481345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481348,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481345\/revisions\/481348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481345"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481345"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}