Leon Draisaitl had a objective and an help and Viktor Arvidsson contributed two assists because the Edmonton Oilers held on for a 4-2 victory in opposition to the host Seattle Kraken on Saturday evening, their seventh straight victory in opposition to their Pacific Division rivals.
Vasily Podkolzin, Jeff Skinner and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins additionally scored for the Oilers, who received their third consecutive recreation. Goaltender Calvin Pickard made 15 saves.
Draisaitl, who leads the NHL with 29 targets, scored into an empty web at 18:02 of the third interval to clinch the victory. Draisaitl, who had the successful objective in Friday’s 3-2 victory in opposition to visiting Anaheim, prolonged his factors streak to 14 video games (12 targets, 15 assists). Teammate Connor McDavid was held pointless for consecutive video games for simply the second time this season.
Chandler Stephenson and Jaden Schwartz scored for Seattle, which had a three-game factors streak snapped. Philipp Grubauer, making his fourth consecutive begin instead of the injured Joey Daccord (higher physique), stopped 28 of 31 pictures.
Trailing 3-0, the Kraken lastly received on the board at 15:56 of the second as Stephenson saved the puck on a two-on-one rush and beat Pickard with a low shot to the stick facet. The objective got here simply three seconds after Seattle had killed off a penalty.
Schwartz transformed a rebound off Vince Dunn’s broken-stick slap shot from the left level at 7:27 of the third interval to make it 3-2 earlier than Draisaitl sealed it.
The Oilers outshot Seattle 10-3 in taking a two-goal lead within the first interval. Podkolzin opened the scoring simply 57 seconds into the sport, taking a cross-ice go from Draisaitl and placing a one-timer into the higher nook of the online from simply inside the suitable faceoff dot.
Edmonton almost doubled its benefit at 3:15, however McDavid was stopped on a breakaway on the finish of a protracted shift.
The Oilers made it 2-0 at 5:18 on a three-on-two rush from middle ice, with Kasperi Kapanen sliding a go forward to Skinner behind the protection, liberating Skinner to beat Grubauer one-on-one.
Edmonton prolonged its result in 3-0 on a nifty passing play at 11:52 of the second. Brett Kulak despatched a go from the highest of the left faceoff circle to Connor Brown in entrance of the online. Brown was tied up by defenseman Jamie Oleksiak however received his stick free for a brief drop go to Nugent-Hopkins, who scored on a one-timer from the low slot.
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