Dineen scores in OT as Oilers ground Jets 3-2

Edmonton Oilers head manager Kris Knoblauch was blessed with his team’s commencement to accumulation play, particularly considering not a azygous subordinate successful his lineup connected Sunday played with the nine during its lengthy caller playoff run.

Defenceman Cam Dineen scored the overtime victor and added an assistance arsenic the Oilers started NHL pre-season play with a 3-2 triumph implicit the Winnipeg Jets.

Sam O’Reilly and Raphael Lavoie besides scored for the Oilers (1-0) who are coming disconnected their devastating nonaccomplishment successful Game 7 of the Stanley Cup last against the Florida Panthers.

“A batch of guys played truly well,” Knoblauch said. “The antiaircraft corps, each six of them played truly well, evidently highlighted by Dineen.

“I tin spell done the lineup and I thought a batch of guys played truly well.”

Making a beardown archetypal content with his archetypal extremity was O’Reilly, who the Oilers traded up to prime 32nd wide successful the 2024 NHL introduction draft.

“I tried to travel successful with a bully mindset, to enactment affirmative and instrumentality to myself and what I do, but evidently going retired determination and seeing each those people, you get a small nervous,” O’Reilly said. “But you person to shingle it disconnected and conscionable play hockey.

“It gave maine assurance getting that archetypal extremity beauteous early. It feels bully and I volition effort to support gathering disconnected of that.”

David Gustafsson and Dominic Toninato scored for the Jets, who dropped to 0-1-1 successful accumulation action.

“Both teams dressed immoderate younger lineups and it’s large for them, we got to spot past night, I deliberation we had six oregon 7 that had ne'er played successful an NHL crippled and it’s large for them to bash that,” said Jets caput manager Scott Arniel.

“It was sloppy astatine times, immoderate of the execution was off, but astatine the extremity of the day, it came down to an OT crippled for the fans and it was fun.”

Winnipeg scored connected the game’s archetypal changeable conscionable 17 seconds in, arsenic Gustafsson tipped a Logan Stanley constituent changeable past Oilers goaltender Olivier Rodrigue.

The Oilers responded with a extremity connected their archetypal changeable of the contention arsenic well, arsenic O’Reilly took a agelong walk from Dineen and divided the defence up the mediate earlier beating Jets starter Eric Comrie, the extremity coming 3:23 into the first.

The shots were lone 6-4 for Edmonton through the opening 20 minutes.

Collin Delia, who spent past play with the Jets’ AHL affiliate the Manitoba Moose, came successful to regenerate Rodrigue successful the Edmonton net midway done the second.

There was nary scoring successful the 2nd period, with Edmonton leading 19-9 connected the changeable timepiece heading into the third.

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Edmonton finally broke the deadlock midway done the 3rd connected the powerfulness play arsenic Lavoie sent a one-timer from the apical of the near ellipse past Comrie.

That pb lone lasted 10 seconds, however, arsenic the Jets knotted the crippled erstwhile Kevin He sent the puck retired successful beforehand to Toninato and helium hammered it past Delia, yet sending the crippled to other time.

Edmonton scored the victor 1:17 into overtime aft a large deed by Vasily Podkolzin created a two-on-one and Dineen lugged the puck down crystal earlier cutting crossed and sending a drawback changeable past Comrie.

NOTES

Both teams dressed squads highly airy connected NHL experience, astir players having spent each oregon the bulk of their clip successful the AHL past play … A brace of veterans connected the Oilers roster were some of their players connected idiosyncratic tryout offers, guardant Mike Hoffman and defenceman Travis Dermott. … The Jets were playing for the 2nd nighttime successful a row, having mislaid 5-2 to the Minnesota Wild connected Saturday successful the Manitoba capital. Kaapo Kahkonen made 23 saves successful the nonaccomplishment successful his Jets debut. … Comrie, an Edmonton native, made his archetypal commencement successful a Jets jersey since May 1, 2022, arsenic helium auditioned for a backup relation with the team. “I conscionable privation to conflict arsenic hard arsenic I can,” Comrie said. “The peculiar connection present is vie and I privation to marque definite I vie arsenic hard arsenic I tin and bash what I tin to marque the determination (on backup) arsenic hard arsenic I tin (for coaches).”

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Oilers: Play home-and-home divided squad games against the Calgary Flames connected Monday.

Jets: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.