Oilers headed to Western Conference Final after beating Golden Knights 1-0 in OT

Mark Anderson · The Associated Press

· Posted: May 15, 2025 1:42 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Kasperi Kapanen scored connected a scramble successful beforehand of the nett astatine 7:14 of overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 successful Game 5 connected Wednesday nighttime to beforehand to the Western Conference last for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

The Oilers, who past play made it each the mode to the Stanley Cup Final earlier losing successful 7 games to Florida, volition play Dallas oregon Winnipeg successful the adjacent round. The Stars, who pb 3-1, volition spell for the bid triumph Thursday night.

Kapanen's extremity backed up different shutout show from goalie Stuart Skinner, who made 24 saves and drew respective chants of "Stu! Stu!" from Oilers fans successful the crowd. Skinner, who was benched 2 games into the playoffs, besides blanked the Golden Knights successful Game 4. This was his 3rd commencement successful a enactment successful replacing the injured Calvin Pickard.

Adin Hill made 29 saves for Vegas.

Both teams besides were progressive successful the 2 astir caller scoreless playoff games to scope overtime. The Oilers mislaid to Winnipeg connected May 21, 2021, 5 days aft the Golden Knights were defeated by Minnesota.

Edmonton's lone 1-0 overtime playoff triumph occurred successful 1997 implicit the Dallas. Vegas has yet to triumph a postseason crippled by that people successful OT.

The Golden Knights played without skipper Mark Stone due to the fact that of an upper-body wounded that caused him to miss astir of Game 3 connected Saturday. He played successful Game 4 connected Monday, but was acold from astatine afloat health.

Neither squad scored done the archetypal 2 periods, and premier scoring chances were astatine a premium. There were lone 5 high-danger chances, according to Natural Stat Trick, and the Golden Knights had 4 of them.

But each squad had a grade-A accidental aboriginal successful the 3rd period. Vegas' Brett Howden whiffed connected a tap-in aft taking a fantastic walk from Jack Eichel, and soon aft Edmonton's Leon Draistaitl failed to person connected a breakaway. Connor McDavid had a accidental connected a 2-on-1 to extremity the crippled successful regularisation but was denied by Hill with 1:06 left.