Leon Draisaitl’s second objective of the evening — his 51st of the season — in a three-point recreation was the extra time winner to offer 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 another recreation.
Draisaitl, the primary NHL participant to 50 targets this season, returned after lacking 4 video games resulting from harm, however Edmonton was with out fellow famous person 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 targets, with Pachal additionally amassing one help for the Flames (34-26-12, 80 factors).
Calgary is seven factors outdoors 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 submit at 2:25 of the additional interval.
Typical of a Battle of Alberta conflict, it was an enormous increase 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 acquired it when Sharangovich opened the scoring at 4:32 by becoming a member of a rush and ending a rebound probability.
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 objective 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 targets, three assists) in a six-game level streak.
Nonetheless, Draisaitl once more evened the rely by notching his fiftieth objective of the season with 3:12 remaining in regulation. Draisaitl, the primary participant to 50 targets within the league this season, was fed a move to his off-wing and from the appropriate face-off dot despatched a shot simply contained in the far submit.
–Area Degree Media