<p>The <a href="https://oilersnation.com/">Edmonton Oilers </a>scored in overtime to defeat the <a href="https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/vegas-golden-knights/line-combinations">Vegas Golden Knights </a>5-4 and give themselves a 2-0 lead in their second-round series. But just minutes earlier, a battle for a loose puck between Oilers’ forward Viktor Arvidsson and Golden Knights’ defender Brayden McNabb resulted in the Vegas blueliner crashing awkwardly into the boards, forcing him to leave the game.  </p>


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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Prior to the Oilers' game winning goal Arvidsson sent McNabb into the boards, and McNabb left the game with an apparent injury.</p>
<p>There was no call on the play. <a href="https://t.co/57w64uUtMo">pic.twitter.com/57w64uUtMo</a></p>
<p>— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) <a href="https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1920716334523891926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>No penalty was called on the play, and the Golden Knights weren’t too happy about it. </p>



<p>“(It’s) pretty clear it’s a penalty,” Mark Stone told reporters after the game. “His stick is between McNabb’s legs, he sends him head-first into the boards. Pretty clear-cut penalty in my eyes, and I think everybody’s eyes, right? But it’s hockey, you don’t always get the calls, but unfortunately now we might be down a D-man. We’ll see tomorrow. It’s a dirty play and we don’t get the call.” </p><div class="injected-ad injected-video" data-nn-ad-tech-injection-count="0" data-nn-ad-tech-max-gap="130" data-nn-ad-tech-current-gap="189"></div>



<p>Vegas Head Coach Bruce Cassidy called out the official by name. </p>



<p> “Listen, Gord (Dwyer) is looking at it. He blew it, he missed the call. I don’t know what else to say,” Cassidy said. “It’s a can-opener trip, it’s a dangerous play, it’s all those things. But it didn’t get called so you got to keep playing.”</p>



<p>Cassidy didn’t have a status update for McNabb for Game 3. </p>



<p>The Oilers had a 4-2 lead early in the third period when Victor Oloffson scored a power play to cut the deficit to one. Midway through the third, Alex Pietrangelo scored his second of the playoffs to tie the game at four. </p>



<p>But in overtime, soon after the incident with Arvidsson and McNabb, Connor McDavid fed Leon Draisaitl with a pass on a two-on-one, and the German forward buried it to give the Oilers a 2-0 series lead as the two teams head back to Edmonton for Game 3. </p><div class="injected-ad" data-nn-ad-tech-injection-count="1" data-nn-ad-tech-max-gap="130" data-nn-ad-tech-current-gap="162"></div>
