3 2

THIRD PERIOD

0.0: The period has now ended.

0.2: Talbot flashes leather, robbing Hurricanes forward Jordan Staal from scoring the equalizer.

2:02: Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins hits the post after Ward is pulled from the ‘Canes net.

4:16: Oilers defenceman Adam Larsson receives two minutes for hi-sticking.

7:05: Hurricanes forward Phillip Di Giuseppe with a shot but it goes wide.

13:50: A bullet by Oilers defenceman Oscar Klefbom is deflected by Ward.

15:00: Stempniak receives two minutes for hi-sticking. Oilers on the power play.

15:46: A tight pass from behind the net, Skinner finds Stempniak’s tape who decreases Edmonton’s lead to one. | EDM 3, CAR 2

16:42: Hurricanes forward Lee Stempniak follows up for a rebound on net and buries the one-timer. | EDM 3, CAR 1

20:00: The period is now under way.

SECOND PERIOD

0.0: The period is now over.

3:32: Hurricanes defenceman Jaccob Slavin receives two minutes for high-sticking against McDavid.

6:17: Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse carries the puck up through the neutral zone and into the ‘Canes defensive zone for a wrist-shot on net but is denied by Ward.

9:56: Hurricanes forward Jeff Skinner is twice denied by Talbot.

17:25: Winning the draw, Oilers forward Anton Lander flips the puck back to Tyler Pitlick, who stumbles, loses the puck but then regains composure as Mark Letestu plays it back to him for the one timer. | EDM 3, CAR 0

20:00: The period is now under way. Oilers defenceman Mark Fayne will not return for the remainder of the game.

FIRST PERIOD

0.0: The period is now over.

0.28: Talbot extinguishes the play with less than 30 seconds remaining.

1:59: McDavid receives two minutes for cross-checking. Hurricanes with their first power play of the night.

8:51: Talbot denies Hurricanes forward Bryan Byckell’s wrist shot.

10:38: Oilers forward Jordan Eberle picks up the loose puck and pushes it into the paint for a deflected tip-in past Ward. | EDM 2, CAR 0

16:41: Hurricanes defenceman Ron Hainsey receives two minutes for hooking against Oilers forward Connor McDavid.

18:09: Oilers forward Anton Slepyshev with a snipe from the top of the left circle, beating Hurricanes goaltender Cam Ward. | EDM 1, CAR 0

20:00: The game is now underway.

TONIGHT’S LINEUP

Lucic – McDavid – Eberle
Pouliot – Nugent-Hopkins – Kassian
Maroon – Draisaitl – Slepyshev
Pitlick – Letestu – Lander

Klefbom – Larsson
Sekera – Russell
Nurse – Fayne

Talbot

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