Draisaitl nets shootout winner as Oilers clip Canucks 3-2

It whitethorn person been a victory, but the Edmonton Oilers feel they are inactive precise overmuch a enactment successful progress.

Leon Draisaitl scored the shootout victor connected a slapshot arsenic the Oilers won their 2nd consecutive pre-season game, defeating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 connected Monday.

Corey Perry and Ben Gleason besides scored for the Oilers, who improved to 3-3 successful NHL accumulation action.

“We conscionable wanted to get our conflict level up a small bit,” said Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who registered a brace of assists connected the night. “I deliberation everybody has different level that they tin get to. Hopefully we volition get determination this week.

“We haven’t played overmuch with our group. To get immoderate bushed and immoderate camaraderie, each that worldly is important.”

A batch of the absorption was connected getting the archetypal look of the caller perchance powerhouse 2nd enactment of Draisaitl, Viktor Arvidsson and Jeff Skinner.

“They are conscionable getting utilized to each different close now,” said Oilers head manager Kris Knoblauch. “They had immoderate bully chances, astir apt not arsenic galore arsenic you would expect successful a crippled similar tonight. But it was a bully archetypal step.”

Arshdeep Bains and Nate Smith replied for the Canucks (2-2-1), who person mislaid 3 successful a row.

“It’s not astir the triumph oregon loss, the radical truly did a large job,” said Canucks caput manager Rick Tocchet, whose squad dressed the little experienced lineup. “I’m truly arrogant of the mode they played. I conscionable similar the mode that they stuck with it. That is simply a bully hockey nine implicit there, and I deliberation we did a bully job.”

There was nary scoring successful a alternatively relaxed archetypal period, with Edmonton putting 8 shots connected Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen and Vancouver responding with 7 on Oilers netminder Stuart Skinner.

Vancouver broke the deadlock six minutes into the 2nd play connected the powerfulness play arsenic Kiefer Sherwood made a bully walk from the broadside of the nett retired to Bains, who unleashed a slug earlier Skinner could get across.

Edmonton astir responded a fewer minutes aboriginal arsenic Perry was sent successful alone, but helium was incapable to deke his mode past Lankinen.

The Canucks led 16-15 connected the changeable timepiece done 40 minutes.

The Oilers tied the crippled 4 minutes into the 3rd play arsenic Perry swept retired successful beforehand of the nett and made a bully determination and got the puck down Lankinen this time.

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Edmonton surged up connected the powerfulness play midway done the 3rd arsenic McDavid sent it backmost to Gleason who sent a hard wrist changeable into the nett with Arvidsson providing a surface successful front.

However, Vancouver answered backmost conscionable 19 seconds aboriginal arsenic Smith deftly redirected a Kirill Kudryavtsev changeable done Skinner’s legs, yet sending the crippled to other time.

Vancouver had a wide-open nett to sprout for precocious successful overtime, but Draisaitl lifted Daniel Sprong’s instrumentality astatine the past second.

NOTES

It was the archetypal gathering betwixt the 2 teams since the Oilers defeated the Canucks 3-2 successful Game 7 of their second-round playoff bid successful May … Edmonton released seasoned guardant Mike Hoffman from a PTO connected Monday, and the Canucks did likewise with PTO invitation Sammy Blais … The Oilers are down to 36 players (five injured) successful campy and are hoping to trim to 27 players earlier the team’s last 2 pre-season games. Defenceman Darnell Nurse is expected to beryllium backmost for 1 of the 2 last tilts, and backup goalie Calvin Pickard is expected to instrumentality to the crystal successful a fewer days aft taking a deed to the caput connected Saturday against Seattle … Vancouver prima guardant J.T. Miller has skated each camp, but has yet to suit up for a game, portion defenceman Quinn Hughes has played conscionable one.

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Canucks: Host the Oilers on Friday.

Oilers: Visit the Seattle Kraken connected Wednesday.