Zach Laing

5 days ago | yardbarker.com | Zach Laing

The incident in question happened in Thursday night’s Game 2 between the two sides when Roy appeared to get his wires cross five and a half minutes into overtime. Roy and Frederic were battling for a loose puck along the boards, watching as the vulcanized rubber flung into the air. It was then that both turned towards the puck, and Roy loaded and unloaded a cross-check right to Frederic’s face.

5 days ago | yardbarker.com | Zach Laing

“It takes everybody — we know that, everybody knows that,” said McDavid. “It takes everyone up and down the lineup and we’re getting help all over. That Janmark line has been really, really, really good since they’ve been together. “I guess you could call them the fourth line — they’re hardly the fourth line. They’re playing great, same with that Nuge line, Henrique’s line scores a bunch the other night. We’re getting help all over.

5 days ago | yardbarker.com | Zach Laing

The Vegas Golden Knights could be without Nic Roy in the coming days after the NHL’s Department of Player Safety has called for a hearing with the forward. It’s due to a vicious cross-check Roy landed to the face of Edmonton Oilers winger Trent Frederic in Game 2 of the teams second-round series Thursday. Vegas’ Nicolas Roy will have a hearing tonight for cross-checking Edmonton’s Trent Frederic.

6 days ago | yardbarker.com | Zach Laing

On a day when Robert Francis Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV, becoming the 266th head of the Catholic Church, it’s only fitting that Leon Draisaitl — Edmonton’s Pope Leo — scored the game-winning goal for the Oilers. And if anyone watched the 75 minutes and 20 seconds leading up to Thursday night’s overtime, it didn’t look like the Dynamic Duo would find a way onto the scoresheet in what might’ve been their poorest performance of the playoffs so far.

6 days ago | yardbarker.com | Zach Laing

Thursday’s Game 2 against the Vegas Golden Knights marks an important moment for the Edmonton Oilers. They’ll look to snag a 2-0 series lead from the grasp of their second-round foe, something this core has only done once in their 13 playoff series since 2017. What makes it intriguing is how they’ll be looking to do so. For what genuinely feels like a first this season, head coach Kris Knoblauch is running the same lineup for the fifth straight game.