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Edmonton Oilers’ season ended Sunday night at Rogers Place with a 5-2 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.Vegas wins the best-of-seven 4-2. They’ll play either Dallas or Seattle in the Western Conference Final.“There were two teams that were taking swings at each other in every game,” Oilers Head Coach Jay Woodcroft said.“It feels like a failure or a wasted year almost,” Leon Draisaitl said after the loss.The Golden Knights took an early lead when the puck bounced in front to Reilly Smith, who snapped a shot past Stuart Skinner 24 seconds into the game.Connor McDavid provided a quick response, 31 seconds later, when his shot from the right wing eluded Adin Hill.Just 1:48 after that, Derek Ryan centered the puck to Warren Foegele, who connected for his second of the post-season.Vegas came out strong in the second and went ahead on a pair of goals by Jonathan Marchessault in the first eight minutes of the period.“I thought we played a good first period,” Woodcroft said.

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Connor McDavid proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lauren Kyle last Thursday.“I cannot put into words how happy I am to be spending the rest of our lives together,” Kyle wrote in a post announcing the engagement.“Almost eight years of growth, happiness and so much love and I can’t believe we have so much more to look forward to.”The 26-year-old Edmonton Oilers captain and Kyle, who is an interior designer and turned 27 on Monday, have been together since they were 19.“I knew you were my person from the day we met and I can’t wait for the beautiful life we are going to create together,” she wrote.A post shared by Lauren Kyle (@laurenkyle1)Kyle moved to Edmonton after graduating from Ontario’s Toronto Metropolitan University in 2019. The couple has a miniature bernedoodle dog named Lenard, who has a sizeable 19K Instagram following.She founded her own firm, Kyle and Co Design Studio, and designed the couple’s home overlooking the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton’s Laurier Heights area which was featured in Architectural Digest.McDavid proposed in Muskoka, a cottage country area in Ontario, where Kyle has shared Instagram stories showing a vacation home they’re building there.

Vegas Golden Knights rolled to a convincing 5-1 win over the Edmonton Oilers Monday night at Rogers Place, to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-seven second round series.“I didn’t think we skated well, I didn’t think we were hard enough in certain areas and to a man, not our finest hour in any way,” Oilers head coach Jay Woodcroft said.“To dress tonight up any other way than ‘not good enough’ would be false.”“Forty eight hours ago, we played a game that we really liked,” Captain Connor McDavid said.“Forty eight hours later, we’re talking about not a very good one.

Edmonton Oilers advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 5-4 road win over the Los Angeles Kings Saturday night.The Oilers won the series 4-2. They’ll play the Vegas Golden Knights in the second round.The Oilers took an early lead when Evan Bouchard made a deft pass in front to Connor McDavid, who tipped his third of the series past Joonas Korpisalo 1:25 into the game.Sean Durzi tied it when his point shot skittered under Stuart Skinner’s left pad.Klim Kostin notched his second of the series later in the first, cutting across the slot and snapping a shot past Korpisalo’s blocker.The teams combined for three power play goals in the first nine minutes of the second period.