Draisaitl scores in OT to lift Oilers to 3-2 win over Red Wings

Leon Draisaitl scored his 2nd extremity of the crippled 18 seconds into overtime and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 connected Sunday night.

“All astir large night; large triumph for us,” Draisaitl said. “Always bully to travel backmost successful a crippled similar that and find your crippled and commencement the roadworthy travel disconnected right.”

Evan Bouchard besides scored and Calvin Pickard stopped 25 shots to assistance the Oilers win their 2nd straight.

“We’re sitting backmost and helium made immoderate cardinal saves, obviously, successful the archetypal period,” caput manager Kris Knoblauch said erstwhile asked astir Pickard’s performance. “Work load was little successful the 2nd and third, but determination were immoderate large ones and we’re precise blessed with the mode helium played.”

Connor McDavid and defenseman Mattias Ekholm each had 2 assists.

Andrew Copp had a extremity and an assist, and J.T. Compher besides scored for the Red Wings, and Patrick Kane had 2 assists. Cam Talbot finished with 30 saves.

The Oilers beat the Red Wings for the 5th clip successful six games (5-0-1).

“We cognize however to triumph games, we’ve conscionable got to support doing it,” Pickard said aft the victory.

Takeaways

Oilers: With his 2 goals, Draisaitl extended his constituent streak to six games (five goals, 3 assists). McDavid has 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) successful 16 vocation games against Detroit.

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Red Wings: Defenseman Jeff Petry had an assistance connected Copp’s extremity for his archetypal constituent of the season.

Key moment

Detroit’s penalty-killing unit, tanked 31st successful the NHL af 64.3%, successfully killed disconnected a tripping punishment to Copp with 1:51 remaining successful regulation, assuring the squad of astatine slightest 1 point.

Key stat

The Red Wings person been outshot successful six consecutive games and are 3-3 implicit that span. Detroit is 31st successful the NHL successful shots allowed per crippled (34.7) and 32nd successful shots connected extremity per crippled (24.6). The Red Wings person fixed up astatine slightest 30 shots successful six consecutive games, portion going 5 games successful a enactment generating less than 30 shots connected goal.

Up Next

The Oilers visit Columbus connected Monday, portion the Red Wings big Winnipeg connected Wednesday.