McDavid makes perfect pass in overtime as the Oilers beat the Blackhawks 4-3

Connor McDavid acceptable up Zach Hyman successful overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-3 connected Wednesday night.

“Three-on-three play, we’re evidently built for it,” Oilers caput manager Kris Knoblauch said aft the game. “We’ve got immoderate players that would excel successful that situation. Unfortunately, we were successful that concern some nights, but they recovered a mode — which is bully — but we got distant with a batch of things that we’ve got to cleanable up.”

Hyman redirected McDavid’s walk for the power-play extremity astatine 1:36. It was Hyman’s 19th extremity and McDavid’s 49th assistance of the season.

Leon Draisaitl and Jeff Skinner each had a extremity and an assistance arsenic Edmonton won for the 5th clip successful 7 games. Viktor Arvidsson besides scored and Calvin Pickard made 29 saves.

“I think, archetypal of all, Picks was unreal for us; helium made immoderate existent large saves,” Jeff Skinner said. “Early successful the crippled too, I deliberation helium made immoderate existent bully saves. But, yeah, conscionable sticking with it. Obviously, the PP gets 1 astatine the extremity determination for america and we get the 2 points that we were after. But, yeah, it’s 1 of those games wherever we had to grind it out.”

The Oilers were coming disconnected an overtime victory at St. Louis connected Tuesday night.

Skinner and Draisaitl scored successful the 3rd play to assistance Edmonton unfastened a 3-1 lead.

But Chicago rallied down Ryan Donato, who matched his vocation precocious with his 16th extremity astatine 12:12. He besides picked up an assistance connected Alec Martinez’s tying extremity with 3:44 near successful regulation.

It was an awesome rally for the Blackhawks aft they mislaid Jason Dickinson to an evident near genu wounded 4:33 into the 2nd period.

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Lukas Reichel besides scored for Chicago successful its 3rd consecutive loss. Arvid Soderblom stopped 34 shots.

Takeaways

Oilers: McDavid helped adjacent it retired aft his squad blew a two-goal pb successful the third. Playing for the 2nd consecutive nighttime connected the road, it was a coagulated result.

Blackhawks: Dickinson is 1 of the team’s champion all-around players, truthful immoderate prolonged lack for the guardant would beryllium a large blow.

Key moment

Pickard made a terrific near pad prevention connected Pat Maroon with astir 13 minutes left, preserving Edmonton’s 2-1 lead.

Key stat

Draisaitl has 14 goals and 21 assists during an 18-game constituent streak against Chicago.

Up next

Both teams play astatine location connected Friday night. The Oilers host Colorado, and the Blackhawks look Nashville.