Knights unable to gain ground in division race, lose to Oilers

The Golden Knights were incapable to summation crushed successful the part contention Saturday, losing 3-2 to the Edmonton Oilers successful beforehand of an announced assemblage of 18,381 astatine T-Mobile Arena.

Reilly Smith scored his team-leading ninth extremity aboriginal successful the 3rd period, and Chandler Stephenson scored midway done the 2nd period.

The Knights mislaid to Edmonton for the 2nd clip this play and fell to 4-3 against the Pacific Division contempt holding the NHL’s apical 2 scorers (Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid) without a point.

Oilers goaltender Mikko Koskinen came up with respective cardinal stops successful the archetypal play earlier Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zach Hyman took vantage of turnovers to enactment Edmonton up 2-0.

Jesse Puljujarvi converted a breakaway astatine 6:39 of the 2nd play for a 3-0 Oilers vantage earlier the Knights mounted a comeback.

Winger Jonathan Marchessault returned for the Knights aft missing the past 5 games portion helium was successful the NHL’s COVID-19 protocol.

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