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 against Seattle Kraken.
Evander Kane maybe he’ll be treated to dinner on the team’s next outing because he was the main author of this comeback with three pointers in the space of 10 minutes.
After cutting the lead to one goal and then equalizing, Kane played the hero midway through extra time to score his hat trick. It took Kane 9 minutes and 29 seconds to score his three goals.
It was the 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 picking up just one win in his first seven starts, Skinner has now won his last three bouts.
With Kane’s three goals, Connor McDavid scored his fourth goal of the season. Jared McCannAlexander Wennberg and Pierre-Édouard Bellemare hit the target for the Kraken.
Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard collected three assists.
Kailer Yamamoto returned to Edmonton for the first time since leaving the team in June 2023. The Oilers’ 2017 first-round pick played 244 games for Edmonton.
McDavid and Leon Draisaitl they joined forces in the opening minutes of the second period. Draisaitl drew the attention of four Kraken players entering the zone, allowing him to pass the puck to his left to McDavid who scored with a backhand on a breakaway after a nice feint.
Seattle responded with three goals in a row, two of them in a little more than two minutes apart. McCann was first to redirect a pass from Jordan Eberle into the box, and then Bellemare deflected the shot behind him Stuart Skinner put the Kraken forward.
As the period went on, Wenneberg made a nice spin move in front of the net and beat Skinner to double Seattle’s lead with 20 minutes left.
Kane then gave the Oilers hope with just under seven minutes left in the third quarter when he deflected a brilliant pass fromEvan Bouchard into the net and reduced the difference to 3-2. Bouchard collected his second match point on this sequence.
With less than a minute left in the game, the Oilers refused to quit and managed to send the game into overtime. Positioned at the edge of the net, Kane completed a nice pass from Draisaitl for his second goal of the game to tie the game at 3-3.
In extra time, Kane was forgotten at the entrance to the net and finished a beautiful cross Zach Hyman.
Joey Daccord deflected 28 of the 32 shots that were directed at him in the match.
The Oilers will return to action on Saturday afternoon vs Tampa Bay Lightningwhile the Kraken will return to action on Thursday against the Islanders.
Quinn Hughes was behaving again.
The star defenseman had a goal and two assists in the Vancouver Canucks’ 4-3 overtime win against the New York Islanders.
Already having two assists in the game, Hughes was forgotten behind the Islanders in overtime and scored with a superb wrist shot for the role of hero.
The 24-year-old defender now has 6 goals and 26 points this season.
Filip Hronek scored the tying goal for the Canucks to extend his streak of at least one point to 11.
JT Miller and Brock Boeser also scored for the Canucks, while Pierre Engvall, Brock Nelson and Bo Horvat scored for the Islanders.
The Canucks’ power play gave the Islanders headaches with three goals.
The Islanders have been having a rough time recently with six straight losses. It’s quite the opposite for the Canucks, who have won seven of their last eight games.
The game started well for the Islanders, who took a 2-0 lead after the first period. Engvall opened the scoring first, and Nelson doubled the lead just over a minute later.
The two teams exchanged several goals in the second period and scored 3-2. Miller got the Canucks on the scoresheet first, before Horvat gave the Islanders a two-goal lead again. Boeser cut the lead to one goal midway through the period with a shot.
Back on the power play in the third period, the Canucks made New York pay the price. Hronek powerfully fired one time to tie the game and eventually send it all into overtime.
The third period produced a worrying moment, when Andrei Kuzmenko was hit in the face. After being on the ground for some time, he returned to the dressing room covered in blood.
Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko stopped 30 pucks, while Ilya Sorokin made 39 saves in the loss.
The Colorado Avalanche exploded for five goals in the third period to cruise to a dominant 8-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.
Already leading 3-1 after 40 minutes of play, the Avalanche came out on top in the third period to record their second straight victory and end the Ducks’ two-game winning streak.
In his second game in an Avalanche jersey, newcomer Joel Kiviranta collected a goal and two assists in the game.
Valeri Nichushkin scored twice, Quebec’s Samuel Girard scored his first goal of the season, and Andrew Cogliano, Devon Toews, Ross Colton and Fredrik Olofsson scored the other goals for Colorado.
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 of the game.
Avalanche goaltender Alexandar Georgiev wasn’t too busy in front of his net, stopping 15 of the 17 shots he faced. In the Ducks camp, Lukas Dostal scored eight goals with 38 shots.
The Ducks have won their last five away games.
The Ducks will face the Florida Panthers and St. Louis Blues, before hosting the Montreal Canadiens next Wednesday.
The Avalanche will play their next game on Saturday against the Dallas Stars.
