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OVERTIME
2:23: DRAISAITL IN OVERRRRRRTIME! The Oilers and Pens play a North-South overtime period, punctuated by Draisaitl’s winner. The Oilers steal this one in Pittsburgh!
5:00: Overtime has begun.
THIRD PERIOD
0.0: OVERTIME! Sixty minutes aren’t enough to decide this one as we’re headed to the fourth period. Shots at the end of regulation are 51-22 PIT.
2:12: Smith makes another clutch save, getting his chest on Crosby’s wrister with less than three minutes left in regulation.
4:27: Back and forth action as McDavid and Draisaitl get a 2-on-1 but can’t finish.
6:28: Kassian is called for interference, paving the way for some 4-on-4 hockey.
6:46: Dumoulin walks in shorthanded and whips a shot glove side to knot the game up. |EDM 1, PIT 1
7:38: Smith with another incredible stop, this time on a redirected point shot that caused him to do the splits. Former Oiler John Marino takes a penalty for hooking, sending the Oilers back to the man advantage.
11:51: The Oilers fail to convert on the power play but get close with a McDavid one-timer from the wing. Murray got across to make the pad save.
16:29: LOCKSMITH! The keeper continues his unbelievable play, stopping Jake Guentzel’s goalmouth jam to help kill yet another minor. Now Nick Bjugstad goes off for hooking. Oilers get their first power play of the night.
18:33: The Oilers take their fourth minor of the game. This time it’s Jujhar Khaira for holding.
20:00: The third period has begun!
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: The Oilers kill Nurse’s high sticking minor, as well as Benning’s other two penalties as Smith makes 17(!) saves in the middle period for a 35-save total after 40. Cave, meanwhile, gets the Oilers on the board with his great individual effort. Shots are 35-15 PIT.
2:29: More penalty trouble for the Oilers as Nurse gets called for high sticking.
6:52: Edmonton kills Benning’s second minor, with Smith’s best save coming from a Malkin one-timer.
9:08: SMITH! He is the Oilers best penalty killer with FIVE saves to help foil the minor. Benning gets out the box and takes a hooking minor, returning right back to it.
11:18: Benning gets too much on his clear attempt, sending it out of play. He’ll sit two minutes for delay of game.
12:39: COLBY CAVE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The centre, who was recalled on Friday, puts his head down and drives to the net, beating Marcus Pettersson wide and then out-waiting Murray to score. That’s his first of the season with the helpers going to Matt Benning and Markus Granlund. | EDM 1, PIT 0
13:56: Another stop by Smith, who fastens his pad to the ice to thwart Patric Hornqvist’s quick one-timer from the right circle.
16:10: A partial 3-on-1 emerges as Darnell Nurse goes cross-ice for Bear but he fans on the one-timer.
17:39: Alex Chiasson sends a wrist shot at Murray but no rebound pops loose as the goalie squeezes tight to get the whistle.
18:56: Smith tested early in the second, getting into the butterfly position to stop Dominik Simon’s slot redirection.
20:00: The second period begins with Bear on the ice.
We’re through 20 in Pittsburgh, still scoreless! #LetsGoOilers pic.twitter.com/OE0zDxIkoj
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) November 2, 2019
FIRST PERIOD
0.0: The first period ends scoreless, with Smith’s brilliance being the story so far with 18 saves. Bear, after falling awkwardly, didn’t take a shift for the rest of the frame but stayed on the bench.
4:39: Ethan Bear gets tangled up with Bryan Rust and falls awkwardly but he remains on the Oilers bench.
5:33: The fourth line gets in and grinds down low, generating some offence for the Oilers. Shots are now 11-5 PIT.
9:00: More saves from Smith as he gloves down a floater then covers up the rebound that Evgeni Malkin whacks at.
12:23: Crosby gets the game’s best look, out-waiting Smith on a partial break but putting his shot wide of the cage. Shots are 6-2 Pens.
15:06: Smith pumps the blocker on former Oiler Justin Schultz’s wrister from the slot.
19:03: Early action on both sides as Mike Smith makes two quick stops at the Oilers end then Oscar Klefbom banks the puck off the end boards for Jujhar Khaira out front but he’s stopped by Matt Murray.
20:00: McDavid. Crosby. Draisaitl. Malkin. The puck has been dropped!
Colby Cave will centre the 4th line against Pittsburgh instead of Riley Sheahan, who missed the last two periods in Columbus.
— Jack Michaels (@EdmontonJack) November 2, 2019
? DAY HOCKEY ?#LetsGoOilers pic.twitter.com/aUtD8w50ud
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) November 2, 2019
TONIGHT’S LINEUP
Draisaitl – McDavid – Kassian
Khaira – Nugent-Hopkins – Gagner
Neal – Haas – Chiasson
Granlund – Cave – P. Russell
Nurse – Bear
Klefbom – Persson
K. Russell – Benning
Smith
Koskinen
OUT: Manning, Sheahan (upper body), Jurco
OILERS TODAY | PRE-GAME AT PIT