Oilers

2022 - 10 - 27

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Blackhawks' streak snapped by Oilers in penalty-laden barnburner (Chicago Sun-Times)

After a combined 20 penalties and five game-tying goals, Oilers star Leon Draisaitl scored with 37.6 seconds left to defeat the Hawks 6-5 on Thursday.

“I shouldn’t say he hates it, but he’ll play for like 30 seconds with me and then grab my stick and puts them back. “We did a good job on the penalty kill at times,” Richardson said. “Ankle sprains are common nowadays, especially with the stiff boots and skates they wear,” Richardson said. The game’s scoring ended up nearly equaling its refereeing in terms of absurdity. Oilers forward Evander Kane was singlehandedly tagged for two cross-checking minors, one unsportsmanlike conduct penalty and an incidental goalie interference call that, while not a minor, did disallow a goal. Twenty minor penalties were called in total, including 14 in the second period alone.

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Draisaitl's late goal lifts Oilers over Blackhawks 6-5 (Toronto Star)

CHICAGO (AP) — Leon Draisaitl scored the tiebreaking goal with 37.6 seconds left and had two assists to lead the Edmonton Oilers past the Chicago Blac...

“We worked hard and we were in a spirited, physical game,” Richardson said. Nugent-Hopkins’ power-play goal 24 seconds into the third tied it. First-year Chicago coach Luke Richardson was impressed with his rebuilding team’s ability to skate with and bounce back against the skilled Oilers. NOTES: The Blackhawks placed Tyler Johnson (right ankle) on injured reserve retroactive to Oct 25. “It seems like that’s his spot,” Kane said. Patrick Kane scored on a rebound with 3:11 remaining to tie it at 5 after McDavid put Edmonton ahead 5-4 at 10:16 of the third period to complete his hat trick. Kane added two assists as Chicago lost at home for the first time this season after three straight wins. Nugent-Hopkins and Hyman each scored in their third straight game as Edmonton (5-3-0) won for the fourth time in five. Max Domi had a goal and two assists for the Blackhawks. A lot of guys stepped up.” It was fun, a lot of emotions. He also had three goals and an assist in Edmonton’s season-opening win over Vancouver.

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GAME RECAP: Oilers 3, Blues 1 (NHL.com)

Nugent-Hopkins' 200th goal of his career goes down as the game-winner in another tightly-contested matchup with the Blues on Wednesday night in St. Louis.

That one in Rogers was decided in the first five minutes on a special team, but we felt good about a lot of things in that game. Both guys have been great for us when we've needed them, and Stu tonight in the second period made some massive saves to keep us going, keep us in it, and really without them they probably would've had a few more. Their goalie played well too and you need that kind of performance back there Just happy to be able to help them out a little bit Tonight was a higher pace, and we skated at the level that we felt good about. Barbashev elected to shoot low blocker, but there was Skinner kicking out the right pad to send the chance away with a terrific save -- the most influential of his 37 saves on the night. They got that late one in the second on their powerplay and it was a hard-fought game the whole way through. I thought we all played really well and we just worked for each other. "Where Ryan scored that goal I'm very proud of, because he went to a hard area to have success. At the end of a shift of strong pressure, captain Connor McDavid came out from behind the St. LOUIS, MO - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins picked the critical moment to score his 200th-career NHL goal, netting the game-winner with 6:16 to go in regulation of a 3-1 Oilers victory over the St. That's what I really enjoyed -- the fact that we stuck with it until they broke down. "Tonight, we all gave each other a chance out there and I thought both teams just played really hard.

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Blackhawks at Oilers, 2022 NHL Regular Season Recap: Score ... (Second City Hockey)

Zach Hyman opened scoring 10:29 into the first period, finishing off a great pass from Connor McDavid to put the Oilers up 1-0.

Tinordi and Murphy were used a bit differently in this game, skating primarily with the Kane line against mid-quality opponents, so that likely helped. I honestly hope it continues because the Blackhawks need their young players to work out. - After a quiet start in the first few games, P. - It was an Oprah giveaway of penalties in the second period. - Now, considering only about five-minutes of 5-on-5 was played in the second period, the above numbers are skewed a little. - At 5-on-5, the Oilers clearly had better puck possession to the tune of a 58.06 percent share of shot attempts. The result was disappointing but the game itself was fun. Oh, but the Blackhawks would not go quietly into the night. RNH buried a slick cross-crease pass from Leon Draisaitl to make it 4-4. E. Eighteen seconds into the second period was all it took for McDavid to tie the game again at 2-2. Andreas Athanasiou made it 1-1 about three minutes later.

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