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The Edmonton Oilers were stopped one game short of NHL history on Tuesday.
Entering the game on a 16-game winning streak and needing one more win to tie the NHL record, the Oilers fell to the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday. The 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins, current owners of the record, can once again rest easy.
The game-winning goal arrived early in the third period, which began as a 1-1 tie after the teams exchanged goals in the first. A stumble in transition left the Oilers off-balance enough to allow Knights center Chandler Stephenson to score on a one-timer.
It is the Oilers' first loss since Dec. 19. That span of time has seen them rise to third in the Pacific Division, though Tuesday's game was a strong chance to catch the second-place Knights.
Connor McDavid supplied the Oilers' only goal with a shorthanded score early in the first period. Nicolas Roy tied it for Vegas late in the same frame. William Karlsson, making his return from long-term injured reserve, put the game away with an empty-net goal in the final minute.
Oilers' loss doesn't take away from their wild turnaround
The wildest part about the Oilers' win streak is that a month into the season, they were looking like one of the most disappointing teams in the NHL.
Edmonton began the season with a 2-9-1 record. It definitely wasn't a good sign when they lost 8-1 to the Vancouver Canucks on opening night, and the bad times just kept coming. They posted an encouraging win over the Seattle Kraken on Nov. 11, but still decided a change was needed.
Head coach Jay Woodcroft, who had led the team to the Western Conference semifinals last season and signed a contract extension the summer before, was fired one day later.
To replace him, the Oilers turned to Kris Knoblauch, the head coach of the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack. Knoblauch previously had zero NHL head coaching experience, though he did have a tie to McDavid as the player's coach during his stint with the Erie Otters in the OHL.
The results since speak for themselves. The Oilers entered Tuesday with a 26-6-0 record under Knoblauch, who switched the team to a 12-forward, six-defenseman lineup and made significant changes to its defensive scheme. The transition included a counter-intuitive shift of having McDavid and Leon Draisaitl on the ice less, but the changes have worked out.
That win streak might be over, but the Oilers are clearly still where they want to be. The question now isn't who will beat the Oilers, it's who can beat them four times in seven games, and it has been difficult to find an answer since Knoblauch took over.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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