THIRD PERIOD
0.0: Play Tarzan Boy! The Oilers grab their first win of the season after a 5-2 victory over the Canucks. McDavid nets four points with a hat trick and assist, Draisaitl gets four helpers, Nugent-Hopkins picks up three points himself and Koskinen ends the night with 38 saves! Next up is Montreal on Saturday.
6:49: Jujhar Khaira and Antoine Roussel mix it up, each receiving 10-minute misconducts.
8:18: NUUUUGE! Yamamoto makes a sneaky heads-up pass to Nugent-Hopkins at the top of the crease for an easy open-net goal! RNH grabs his second marker of the game and Yamamoto collects his second apple. | EDM 5, VAN 2
13:11: Nils Hoglander hauls down Darnell Nurse and gets called for holding. Oilers are 2-for-3 on the power play tonight.
13:39: Koskinen kicks out Brandon Sutter’s blast from outside for his 31st stop of the evening.
17:41: The Oilers keep their clean sheet shorthanded. Shots are 33-29 EDM.
20:00: The third period has begun with the Oilers shorthanded for just over a minute.
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: Plenty of McDavid magic in the second period, as No. 97 picks up a trick to put the Oilers ahead 4-2 entering the third. Koskinen has 26 saves in net. The Oilers will begin the final period with 1:05 left of Yamamoto’s penalty to kill.
55.4: Edmonton kills McDavid’s minor but Yamamoto now goes to the box for goaltender interference.
3:28: McDavid gets two minutes for holding. Oilers looking to keep their PK intact still.
4:52: THE HAT TRICK! McDavid finishes a beautiful play to notch his third of the evening! Draisaitl nabs assist No.4 of the game with a great no-look behind-the-back feed to the Oilers Captain. That’s McDavid’s seventh regular-season hatty. | EDM 4, VAN 2
7:09: Vancouver’s power play is nullified after Hughes took exception to Nugent-Hopkins’ hit on Brock Boeser.
8:24: Darnell Nurse skates off for slashing.
9:39: Motte replies for Vancouver with a net-front deflection off Travis Hamonic’s point shot. | EDM 3, VAN 2
11:34: THE CAPTAIN! McDavid walks in and releases a laser past Demko to restore Edmonton’s two-goal lead. That’s his second of the night and season, as the Oilers go 2-for-2 on the man advantage. Tyson Barrie picks up point No. 1 as an Oiler with a helper while Draisaitl gets the other. The German now has four assists on the year.| EDM 3, VAN 1
12:03: Motte gets his second minor of the game, this time for slashing.
14:37: Nugent-Hopkins dings the iron not once but twice in the same shift as the Oilers look to regain their two-goal advantage.
16:36: Nate Schmidt hammers a slap shot that beats Koskinen low. | EDM 2, VAN 1
17:43: Mikko Koskinen starts the period with a flurry of saves, stopping Motte, Elias Pettersson and Quinn Hughes in succession.
20:00: The second period has begun!
FIRST PERIOD
0.0: The Oilers lead the score 2-0 and shot count 17-10. The club also amassed 12 blocked shots in the first.
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0.8: DYING SECONDS MCDAVID! Draisaitl wins the draw, Yamamoto whips a quick shot on goal and McDavid muscles home the rebound to put the Oilers ahead by two just before the end of the frame. | EDM 2, VAN 0
50.0: Slater Koekkoek eats a hard shot but sticks with the play, helping the Oilers get the puck out of their zone. Edmonton is 2-for-2 on the PK in the first.
3:53: Kassian will now serve two minutes for holding. Oilers go back to the kill.
5:57: Draisaitl-McDavid-Yamamoto get a shift together and generate a few in-close opportunities but Demko keeps the cage shut.
7:46: The Oilers keep their penalty kill perfect.
9:58: Kailer Yamamoto gets called for slashing. Oilers go to the PK now.
12:01: NUGE! The Oilers maintain non-stop pressure on the power play, capping the play with a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tuck-in. That’s RNH’s first of the year, with the assists going to Leon Draisaitl and McDavid. | EDM 1, VAN 0
13:36: Tyler Motte heads to the box for hooking. The Oilers are still searching for their first power-play goal of the year after going 0-for-4 last night.
16:32: The Oilers jump out the gate with a few quality opportunities on Thatcher Demko. Zack Kassian is first stopped on the doorstep then Connor McDavid is robbed point-blank.
20:00: Tonight’s game has begun! Devin Shore enters the Oilers lineup for Tyler Ennis while Stuart Skinner backs up Mikko Koskinen.
TONIGHT’S LINEUP
Nugent-Hopkins – McDavid – Kassian
Kahun – Draisaitl – Yamamoto
Archibald – Turris – Puljujarvi
Shore – Khaira – Chiasson
Nurse – Bear
Jones – Larsson
Koekkoek – Barrie
Koskinen
Skinner
OUT: Tyler Ennis, William Lagesson, Mike Smith
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