Oilers captain Connor McDavid hopes that Stuart Skinner shut up his critics after consecutive Stanley Cup Playoff shutouts.

This five-game defeat felt like a missed opportunity for an aging core of talented players in search of another Cup.

Edmonton came out on top of a nerve-wracking Game 5 on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with Kasperi Kapanen lighting the lamp and ending the Golden Knights’ season in overtime. The 1-0 Oilers win was also Edmonton’s second shutout victory in a row, as netminder Stuart Skinner continued to prove his mettle between the pipes.

The Vegas Golden Knights had filled five of those holes with the pucks from victories in the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. There would be no more pucks placed on the wall after the Edmonton Oilers secured a 1-0 overtime victory in Game 5 that ended the best-of-7 series.

Despite an enormous gap between top and bottom performances, Edmonton is on the verge of advancing to Round 3.

Vegas Golden Knights players tried to process their elimination at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers in the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Edmonton Oilers eliminated the Vegas Golden Knights in five games with a 1-0 overtime victory at T-Mobile Arena on Wednesday night. The Oilers’ Kasperi Kapanen scored the series-winning goal in overtime,

Following just one game on the schedule on Tuesday night, Wednesday night is back to the standard of two games -- one of which could be the swan song for a recent Stanley Cup champion. The first matchup pits the Florida Panthers against the Toronto Maple Leafs (7 p.

Early on, it looked like the Golden Knights were going to be run out of Rogers Place. The Oilers rode the energy off the home crowd to build a nice lead. Corey Perry, placed on a line with captain Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, opened the scoring several minutes into the first.

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