Zach Hyman prolonged his objective streak to 6 video games and Stuart Skinner made 20 saves because the Edmonton Oilers moved into second place within the Pacific Division with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Ottawa Senators on Sunday night time.
Hyman’s go-ahead objective within the second interval enabled him to match his career-high objective streak. Viktor Arvidsson had a objective and an help and Adam Henrique additionally scored for Edmonton, which gained for the eleventh time in its final 13 video games and leapfrogged the Los Angeles Kings into second place, three factors behind the first-place Vegas Golden Knights.
Nick Cousins scored for Ottawa, which had a six-game win streak — its longest since March of 2017 — snapped.
Linus Ullmark, who entered the competition with a private seven-game win streak for the Senators, departed on the finish of the primary interval with an upper-body damage after making six saves. Leevi Merilainen, who picked up his first NHL win on Saturday at Vancouver, completed up and stopped 12 of 14 photographs.
Edmonton took a 1-0 lead on the 14:26 mark of the primary interval when Arvidsson knocked in Connor McDavid’s crossing cross from the left nook inside the precise publish.
Ottawa tied it 25 seconds into the second interval when Cousins stole the puck from Evan Bouchard on the blue line after which went in on a breakaway and roofed a wrist shot into the top-left nook of the online.
Hyman put the Oilers again in entrance with a power-play objective, sweeping in a rebound of a Arvidsson shot into an open proper aspect of the online for his tenth over the past 9 video games.
Henrique prolonged the result in 3-1 early within the third interval together with his first objective in 16 video games courting again to Nov. 16, burying a wrist shot from the excessive slot off a Mattias Janmark setup.
Ottawa pulled Merilainen for an additional attacker with 3:21 remaining however Skinner turned away all 4 Senators photographs on objective down the stretch to seal the win.
–Discipline Degree Media