Ty Emberson had a purpose and an help, Stuart Skinner stopped 18 pictures, and the Edmonton Oilers accomplished a four-game season collection sweep of the San Jose Sharks with a 3-0 victory on Wednesday evening, within the regular-season finale for each groups.
“The final two video games for me was form of shaking off the rust a bit,” Skinner mentioned.
“I feel tonight I didn’t actually really feel an excessive amount of rust, to be sincere, so I felt fairly good. So, yeah, I’m simply going to proceed on transferring ahead, carry on rising — making an attempt to get higher and attempt to get my recreation as dialed in as I can, particularly the place we need to go.”
Max Jones and Corey Perry additionally scored objectives whereas Connor McDavid had an help on Emberson’s purpose for his a hundredth level of the season.
“It’s good to complete the season off with a victory,” Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch mentioned. “It was good seeing Connor get his hundredth level. Skinner getting a shutout — after his break day he’s come again with two video games; two very strong performances.”
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“Clearly we all know the problem goes to be a troublesome one, heading into the following spherical.”
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Knoblauch added “nearly all of the blokes are going to be prepared for recreation one.”
McDavid hit the 100-point plateau for a fifth straight season and for the eighth time in his profession, turning into the fourth participant in NHL historical past to take action. Wayne Gretzky (15 instances), Mario Lemieux (10) and Marcel Dionne (8) are the others.
Emberson scored at 8:20 of the primary interval, and the Oilers prolonged their lead at 10:17 of the second on Jones’ purpose.
Perry added an empty-net purpose late within the third interval.
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Alexandar Georgiev had 25 saves for San Jose, which misplaced its eleventh straight (0-8-3).
Takeaways
Oilers: Gained momentum going into the playoffs with their fourth win in 5 video games.
Sharks: The event of Macklin Celebrini and Will Smith highlighted a season through which San Jose completed with the league’s worst file.
Key Second
The Sharks honored Logan Couture with a video tribute throughout the first break in play a day after the group’s former captain and fan favourite introduced his taking part in profession was over because of an harm.
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Key Stat
Edmonton held San Jose to 18 pictures, six in every interval.
Up Subsequent
Edmonton subsequent faces Los Angeles in a first-round playoff collection (dates haven’t but been introduced). The Sharks enter subsequent month’s draft lottery with the most effective odds of touchdown the No. 1 total decide.
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