2023-11-16 04:30:00
EDMONTON – The Edmonton Oilers showed great character Wednesday night to erase a two-goal deficit in the third period, en route to a 4-3 overtime victory once morest the Seattle Kraken.
Evander Kane will perhaps be treated to dinner on his next outing with the team since he was the main author of this comeback with a hat trick in the space of 10 minutes.
After cutting the lead to one goal and then tying the game, Kane played hero midway through overtime by completing his hat trick. Kane needed 9 minutes and 29 seconds to score his three goals.
It was a third straight win for the Oilers, who also haven’t lost in two games under new head coach Kris Knoblauch.
Stuart Skinner had a good outing in front of the Oilers cage with 33 saves on 36 shots. After getting just one win in his first seven starts, Skinner has now won his last three matches.
In addition to Kane’s three goals, Connor McDavid scored his fourth goal of the campaign. Jared McCann, Alexander Wennberg and Pierre-Édouard Bellemare scored for the Kraken.
Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard had three assists.
Kailer Yamamoto was back in Edmonton for the first time since leaving the team in June 2023. A first-round pick of the Oilers in 2017, he played 244 games with Edmonton.
McDavid and Leon Draisaitl combined their efforts in the opening minutes of the second period. Draisaitl caught the attention of four Kraken players entering the zone, which allowed him to pass the puck to his left towards McDavid who scored with the backhand on a breakaway following a nice feint.
Seattle, however, responded with three goals in a row, including two goals in the space of just over two minutes. First McCann redirected a Jordan Eberle pass into the back of the net, then Bellemare redirected a shot past Stuart Skinner to put the Kraken ahead.
Late in the period, Wenneberg made a nice move by spinning around in front of the net and beat Skinner to double Seattle’s lead with 20 minutes to play.
Kane then gave the Oilers hope with just under seven minutes remaining in the third period when he redirected a brilliant pass from Evan Bouchard into the back of the net to cut the lead to 3-2. Bouchard collected his second point of the match on this sequence.
With less than a minute left in the game, the Oilers refused to give up and managed to send the game into overtime. Positioned at the mouth of the net, Kane completed a nice pass from Draisaitl to score his second goal of the match and tie the game 3-3.
In overtime, Kane was forgotten at the mouth of the net and completed a nice cross pass from Zach Hyman.
Joey Daccord stopped 28 of the 32 shots he faced in the game.
The Oilers will be back in action on Saturday followingnoon once morest the Tampa Bay Lightning, while the Kraken will be back in action on Thursday once morest the Islanders.
Hughes doesn’t slow down
Quinn Hughes has acted up once more.
The star defenseman had a goal and two assists in a 4-3 overtime victory for the Vancouver Canucks once morest the New York Islanders.
Already having two assists in the match, Hughes was forgotten behind the Islanders players in overtime and he scored with an excellent wrist shot to play the hero.
The 24-year-old defenseman now has 6 goals and 26 points this season.
Filip Hronek scored the tying goal for the Canucks and extended his streak of games with at least one point to 11.
JT Miller and Brock Boeser also scored for the Canucks, while the Islanders’ goals were the works of Pierre Engvall, Brock Nelson and Bo Horvat.
The Canucks’ power play gave the Islanders headaches with three goals.
The Islanders are having a tough time recently with six straight losses. It’s quite the opposite for the Canucks, who have won seven of their last eight games.
The match started on a good note for the Islanders, who took a 2-0 lead following the first period of play. Engvall first opened the scoring, then Nelson doubled the lead a little over a minute later. late.
The two teams exchanged a few goals in the second period to make the score 3-2. Miller first put the Canucks on the scoreboard, before seeing Horvat give the Islanders a two-goal lead once more. Boeser cut the lead to one goal midway through the period with a one-timer.
Back on the power play in the third period, the Canucks made New York pay the price. Hronek fired a powerful one-timer to tie the game and eventually send everyone into overtime.
The third period produced a worrying moment, when Andrei Kuzmenko was hit in the face by a slap shot. After remaining on the ground for a while, he returned to the locker room bleeding.
Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 30 pucks, while Ilya Sorokin made 39 saves in the loss.
The Avalanche tramples the Ducks
The Colorado Avalanche exploded offensively with five goals in the third period to cruise to a dominating 8-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.
Already ahead 3-1 following 40 minutes of play, the Avalanche took off in the third period to sign a second victory in a row and put a stop to the Ducks’ two-game winning streak.
In his second game in an Avalanche uniform, newcomer Joel Kiviranta collected a goal and two assists in the game.
Valeri Nichushkin scored twice, Quebecer Samuel Girard scored his first goal of the season and Colorado’s other goals were scored by Andrew Cogliano, Devon Toews, Ross Colton and Fredrik Olofsson.
Cale Makar had three assists. This is the 14th time in his career that he has three or more points in a game.
Sam Carrick and Max Jones scored the Ducks’ only two goals in the game.
Avalanche goaltender Alexandar Georgiev wasn’t very busy in front of his net and stopped 15 of the 17 shots he faced. In the Ducks camp, Lukas Dostal allowed eight goals on 38 shots.
The Ducks had won their last five road games.
The Ducks will face the Florida Panthers and the St. Louis Blues over the next few days, before hosting the Montreal Canadiens next Wednesday.
The Avalanche will play their next game on Saturday, once morest the Dallas Stars.
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