Leon Draisaitl’s second aim of the night time — his 51st of the season — in a three-point recreation was the extra time winner to present the host Edmonton Oilers a 3-2 comeback victory over the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
Viktor Arvidsson additionally scored for the Oilers, who snapped a two-game skid.
Goaltender Calvin Pickard made 26 saves for Edmonton (42-26-5, 89 factors), who’re even with the Los Angeles Kings in factors for second place within the Pacific Division however have performed yet another recreation.
Draisaitl, the primary NHL participant to 50 objectives this season, returned after lacking 4 video games on account of damage, however Edmonton was with out fellow celebrity Connor McDavid for a fourth consecutive outing. No. 1 goaltender Stuart Skinner and defenseman Mattias Ekholm are additionally out.
Yegor Sharangovich and Brayden Pachal every scored objectives, with Pachal additionally accumulating one help for the Flames (34-26-12, 80 factors).
Calgary is seven factors exterior a playoff place however has three video games in hand on the St. Louis Blues, who maintain the Western Convention’s second wild-card spot.
Goalie Dustin Wolf stopped 26 pictures.
Seconds after the Flames got here inside inches of netting a winner, Draisaitl was the trailer on a rush, gained the puck within the excessive slot and rang a shot off the far put up at 2:25 of the additional interval.
Typical of a Battle of Alberta conflict, it was an enormous enhance for the victors and a painful blow for the losers.
With their playoff hopes in dire want of a lift, the Flames seemed for a fast begin and obtained it when Sharangovich opened the scoring at 4:32 by becoming a member of a rush and ending a rebound likelihood.
Arvidsson tied the conflict at 16:20 of the second interval off a little bit of a damaged play. A cross-ice move ricocheted off a defender proper to Arvidsson within the left circle and he transformed a short-side one-timer.
Pachal broke the impasse at 7:55 of the ultimate body. Pachal joined a rush, took a feed as he reached the slot and buried a shot for his first aim in 28 video games and third this season.
Nazem Kadri’s pair of assists for the Flames not solely gave him 701 profession factors but additionally gave him 10 factors (seven objectives, three assists) in a six-game level streak.
Nevertheless, Draisaitl once more evened the depend by notching his fiftieth aim of the season with 3:12 remaining in regulation. Draisaitl, the primary participant to 50 objectives within the league this season, was fed a move to his off-wing and from the suitable face-off dot despatched a shot simply contained in the far put up.
–Area Stage Media
