Oilers Will End Golden Knights Season
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The Edmonton Oilers look to clinch the second round of the NHL Playoffs when they visit Vegas on Wednesday night for Game 5 against the Golden Knights.
The Oilers won Games 1 and 2 in Las Vegas before the Golden Knights rallied for a 4-3 victory at Edmonton, winning on a Smith goal with 0.4 seconds left. The Oilers bounced back from that bitter loss to blank Vegas 3-0 in Game 4 on Monday as goalie Stuart Skinner turned aside 23 shots for his second career playoff shutout.
This isn’t the first time Evander Kane has been a pain to the Golden Knights, and he has helped bring a physicality to the Edmonton Oilers that has them one game from eliminating Vegas. It’s similar in the Florida-Toronto series,
According to ESPN, echoing TSN's report, goaltender Calvin Pickard is expected to miss at least one more week after sustaining a lower-body injury in Game 2 last Thursday. “I’m told it’ll probably be at least a week,” TSN's Darren Dreger reported, effectively ruling the veteran netminder out for the remainder of the second-round series.
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