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Trevor Zegras worked his magic first, sending a clever walk toward unfastened spot of ice, allowing hard-charging Ducks teammate Kevin Shattenkirk to cod the puck and occurrence a speedy changeable past Oilers goaltender Mike Smith successful the opening minutes Tuesday astatine Rogers Place successful Edmonton.
In the end, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl had their moments of brilliance for the Oilers, per usual, and pinned a 6-5 decision connected the Ducks 1 nighttime aft they rallied for a 3-2 overtime triumph implicit the Calgary Flames. It was fast, furious and fun. Well, for the Oilers, anyway.
“I’m arrogant of that group, back-to-back games, playing against an elite team, and the mode we battled and stayed successful it and kept coming backmost and ne'er quit, that’s a large measurement guardant adjacent though we didn’t get the points,” Ducks manager Dallas Eakins said. “They’ve got a batch of content successful themselves.”
Edmonton defenseman Evan Bouchard was credited with the tie-breaking goal, a pinball changeable from beneath the extremity line, giving the Oilers a 5-4 pb with 9:30 near successful the 3rd period. The puck ricocheted disconnected the near skate of Ducks goaltender Anthony Stolarz and into the backmost of the net.
Draisaitl’s empty-net extremity with 1:01 near proved to beryllium the decisive score. He had 2 goals and 2 assists, McDavid had 1 extremity and 2 assists, Zack Kassian scored 2 goals and Smith and Mikko Koskinen combined to support the Oilers (3-0-0) unbeaten to commencement the season.
Shattenkirk chopped it to 6-5 with 18 seconds remaining with his 2nd extremity of the crippled and 3rd of the season. Sam Steel, making his play debut successful his Edmonton homecoming, scored doubly arsenic the Ducks (2-2-0) turned a 3-2 shortage to commencement the 2nd play into a 4-3 pb to statesman the third.
Jakob Silfverberg and Isac Lundestrom assisted connected each of Steel’s goals.
Steel’s 2nd extremity enactment the Ducks successful beforehand 4-3 and came lone 1:13 aft Nicolas Deslauriers had tied it 3-3 astatine 8:46 of the 2nd period, capping a unreserved down the crystal that was triggered by Ryan Getzlaf and Troy Terry. Smith past departed successful favour of Koskinen astatine 11:35 of the second.
“First of all, I was excited to get successful (the lineup), particularly astatine home,” said Steel, whose parents and sister were among those who made up his cheering section. “I’ve been moving truly hard and trying to get successful the lineup. Nice to get successful astatine location and contribute. It would consciousness a batch amended if we had gotten a win.”
Stolarz astir bushed Smith to the sideline aft helium was struck successful the disguise by a hard perimeter changeable from Bouchard lone 5:11 into the 2nd period. Stolarz needed a infinitesimal oregon 2 to regain his bearings but remained successful the game.
McDavid and Draisaitl each had a extremity and an assistance successful the archetypal period, past went quiescent successful the second. Kassian’s power-play extremity astatine 5:26 of the 3rd play enabled the Oilers to necktie it 4-4, his 2nd extremity of the game. Draisaitl’s first-period man-advantage extremity came via a 5 connected 3.
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The Ducks placed forwards Max Jones (upper body) and Mason McTavish (lower body) connected injured reserve and recalled forwards Sam Carrick and Sonny Milano from their AHL team, the San Diego Gulls. Neither Carrick nor Milano was successful the lineup against the Oilers, however. … Getzlaf has recorded 56 points, including 18 goals, successful 53 vocation games against Edmonton. His assistance connected Deslauriers’ extremity moved him wrong 4 points of Hall of Famer Teemu Selanne’s franchise grounds of 988 points.
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