Decisions made during the offseason can often reverberate throughout the entire season, sometimes even beyond. Such is the case with the Toronto Maple Leafs’ decision to let Zach Hyman walk in free agency, a move that has seen the forward flourish with the Edmonton Oilers since joining the team in the 2021-22 NHL season.
The LA Kings dropped Game 3 by a 6-1 final on Friday evening at Crypto.com Arena, falling to a 2-1 series deficit against the Edmonton Oilers. Just shy of seven minutes into the game, Edmonton opened the scoring as forward Zach Hyman scored his series-leading fifth goal.
Zach Hyman, Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid scored in the first period and the visiting Edmonton Oilers finished with the three power-play goals in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 3 of a first-round Western Conference playoff series on Friday.
Zach Hyman is averaging two goals per game in the playoffs.
After going 2-0 on the NFL Draft, we turn back to some more traditional betting looks as Friday is full of big playoff matchups, so buckle up.
Zach Hyman of the Edmonton Oilers made waves on Monday night, securing his first NHL Playoff hat trick in a stunning opening night win over the Los Angeles Kings.
Home teams went 7-1 in game ones of the first round. And so far, home teams are 3-3 in game twos with Dallas and Edmonton playing tonight. Prior to Monday’s victory, the Oilers were 1-8 in game ones during the Connor McDavid era.
We've got three games on our hands tonight in the hockey world, but our preference is out West with a pair of Game 2s that should offer us plenty of betting value.
The Edmonton Oilers came to play from the moment the puck was dropped in an overwhelming 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings Monday night. The Oilers used their speed to maintain a possession advantage over the Kings all night, constantly pinning them down as they laid on the attack.
Is there a better way to start the third round for the Oilers vs. Kings than a 7-4 dummying by the home side at Rogers Place? Absolutely not, friends. Even with the trio of flukey/own goals, the Oilers were by far the better hockey team for most of the night, earning their first Game 1 win since 2017.
The big guns came to play for the Edmonton Oilers on Monday as the team opened up the offense with seven goals versus the Los Angeles Kings to take a 1-0 series lead.
Connor McDavid and Zach Hyman each had big nights in the Oilers' Game 1 win over the Kings on Monday.
Zach Hyman collected his first career playoff hat trick in a four-point game and Connor McDavid posted a playoff-best five assists to lead the host Edmonton Oilers to a 7-4 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series on Monday.
Monday’s playoff action gave us a crazy comeback, another close call for a comeback and a blowout, and somehow none of those games was the one between the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs?
One win down, 15 to go. The Edmonton Oilers took down the Los Angeles Kings by a score of 7-4 on Monday evening to open their first-round series with a win.
Zach Hyman scored the third most goals in the regular season, finishing with 54, and continued to score at a torrid pace in the first game of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 7-4.
Through the first two days of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the home team has won every game. According to Sportsnet Stats, this is postseason history that the home team has gone unbeaten in the first six Game 1s played in the opening round of the NHL Playoffs.
Perhaps head coach Kris Knoblauch didn’t see a blowout coming. Maybe he thought his starting goaltender wouldn’t be rattled after a solid season. Whatever the case, the Edmonton Oilers bench boss admitted after Thursday’s final regular season game that he made a mistake starting Skinner and letting him get lit up for four goals in just minutes.
The Edmonton Oilers take on the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night, both team’s final game of the 2023-24 regular season. For the Oilers, this will be their last chance to rest their major stars before taking on either the Vegas Golden Knights or Los Angeles Kings.
Taking an in-depth investigation of Zach Hyman‘s stats, will he repeat his very impressive 50-goal 2023-24 campaign? Or was this season an outlier for him?
After seeing Edmonton Oilers’ forward Zach Hyman score his 50th goal of the season, it brought up the discussion of why he left the Toronto Maple Leafs — or why they let him walk to free agency.
Zach Hyman scored his 200th career goal 1:22 into overtime on Tuesday night, giving the Edmonton Oilers a 4-3 victory over the host Winnipeg Jets. After recording his 50th goal of the season during Sunday's loss at Ottawa, Hyman hopped onto the ice, took a drop pass from Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, then circled into the offensive zone.
Ex-Toronto Maple Leaf Zach Hyman became the seventh Edmonton Oiler of all-time to score 50 goals with this glorious tap in against his old rivals, the Ottawa Senators.
One of the most underrated players of this generation has reached an exceptional milestone. On Sunday against the Ottawa Senators, Edmonton Oilers forward Zach Hyman notched his 50th goal of the season, the first time the Toronto native reached the milestone.
When Zach Hyman signed a seven-year contract with an AAV of $5.5 million on July 28, 2021, nobody – not even Hyman himself – could have envisioned the goal-scoring tirade he’d end up going on.
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