SHOOTOUT
NSH: Forsberg ❌, Duchene ❌, Josi ❌
EDM: Draisaitl ❌, McDavid ✅, Nugent-Hopkins ❌
MIKKO WINS IT WITH THE STOP! The Oilers improve to 3-0 in the shootout thanks to McDavid’s dangle and Koskinen’s three stops as the Oilers secure their third-straight win. Edmonton peppered the Predators for 44 shots and improve to 21-16-2 on the season heading into a three-game road trip that begins Saturday night on Hockey Night in Canada against the Montreal Canadiens.
OVERTIME
0.0: Nothing to show for the extra five minutes. Off to the shootout!
3.3: Late bench minor for the Predators as they got caught going for the win late.
1:27: Josi gets free and goes in alone with a chance to end it but Mikko Koskinen makes a MASSIVE blocker save!
3:47: NURSE RATTLES THE POST!
5:00: Extra time, here we go!
THIRD PERIOD
0.0: POINT! We’ll head to overtime after the score wasn’t settled in the final period. Oilers outshot the Predators 43-26 in regulation.
11.5: LAST GASP SAVE by Juuse Saros keeps this a tie game in the dying seconds.
9:42: Oilers putting on the pressure through 10 minutes of this third period, leading in shots 10-3.
20:00: All to play for in the final frame. It starts NOW!
SECOND PERIOD
0.0: The Oilers battle back again in the second period to tie it and take a tie game into the intermission after Derek Ryan deflected home his third goal of the season.
5:12: DEREK TIES IT!!!! Derek Ryan gets a deflection on Evan Bouchard’s shot from the point after the young defenceman quickly put the puck on the net off an offensive-zone faceoff win. Ryan’s got his third goal of the season. | EDM 2, NSH 2
(Upon review, Bouchard gets credit for his ninth of the season after it went in via a Nashville body in front!)
5:57: Saves in quick succession from Finnish counterparts Saros and Koskinen at opposite ends of the ice keeps it a one-goal game. Shots are 20-16 in favour of the Oilers.
11:28: Matt Duchene with a lethal snipe to put Nashville back in front. | NSH 2, EDM 1
13:37: Ryan Johansen heads to the box for slashing. Second PP of the night for the Blue & Orange!
14:16: Draisaitl gets through for a breakaway but can’t beat Saros far side with the snap shot.
19:35: Bouchard sends it directly out and over the glass for another early Oilers penalty kill.
20:00: The second period is underway!
FIRST PERIOD
0.0: McDavid ties the game late in the first period to take this game into the first intermission all square 1-1. Forsberg added the early tally for the visiting Predators.
31.3: CAPTAIN CONNOR!!! Taking matters into his own hands when he picked up the puck in the neutral zone, #97 flashed up the ice and beat his former teammate Matt Benning wide before sliding the tying goal under Juuse Saros five-hole. Great effort by McDavid to tie this game right before the intermission. | EDM 1, NSH 1
7:19: Puljujarvi almost sneaks it over the line after batting a puck in front out of mid-air, but it’s cleared by a Nashville defender.
7:31: First infraction in favour of the Oilers sees Mattias Ekholm go off for a cross-check to the back of Yamamoto. Edmonton’s NHL-leading PP goes to work for the first time tonight!
14:10: Darnell Nurse is called for slashing. Back to the PP go the Preds.
14:53: Filip Forsberg goes far side from the top of the left circle to open the scoring. | NSH 1, EDM 0
19:11: Puljujarvi takes an early tripping penalty to send Nashville to the PP.
20:00: GO FOR THREE! The puck has dropped as Edmonton looks for their third-straight W tonight against the Nashville Predators, who’ve won three straight and look to protect their streak. Zach Hyman is back in the fold for the Oilers on the third line with Ryan McLeod and Zack Kassian, and Mikko Koskinen is between the pipes.
TONIGHT’S LINEUP
RNH – McDavid – Yamamoto
Foegele – Draisaitl – Puljujarvi
Hyman – McLeod – Kassian
Shore – Ryan – Sceviour
Nurse – Bouchard
Keith – Ceci
Lagesson – Russell
Koskinen
Skinner
OUT: Tyson Barrie, Kyle Turris, Tyler Benson, Brendan Perlini
OILERS TODAY | Pre-Game vs NSH