Nashville Predators take down Edmonton Oilers in OT on Monday – Edmonton | Globalnews.ca

Alexandre Carrier scored 2:12 into overtime to the give the Nashville Predators a 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers Monday night.

The Oilers are winless in their last three games (0-1-2).

Mattias Ekholm slammed a rebound past Oilers goaltender Jack Campbell to give the Predators the lead 4:35 into the game.

Jesse Puljujarvi picked up his second goal of the season and his first since Oct. 26 when his bad angle shot knuckled through Nashville netminder Juuse Saros.

Early in the second, a point shot from the Predators’ Jordan Gross deflected in off the leg of Oilers defenceman Tyson Barrie.

Edmonton captain Connor McDavid set up Ryan Nugent-Hopkins for a power-play goal less than three minutes later, but Matt Duchene came back with a power-play strike for the Preds.

Nugent-Hopkins fired the puck off the post and in for another power-play marker before the third was two minutes old.

Campbell kept the game tied with several big saves in the ensuing moments, including a left pad denial of Cody Glass.

Zach Hyman was all alone in front a minute into overtime but Saros came up with a right-pad stop. Carrier then fired a shot past Campbell’s glove on a two-on-one.

Campbell finished with 31 saves. McDavid extended his point streak to 13 games.

The Oilers (17-14-2) will play in Dallas on Wednesday. You can listen to live coverage of the game on 630 CHED, beginning with The Faceoff Show at 6 p.m. The actual game starts at 7:30 p.m.