The St. Louis Blues came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a shootout Thursday night at Rogers Place.
The Oilers went on a power play in the first minute of the game when St. Louis was penalized for starting the wrong lineup.
Edmonton forward Zach Hyman made St. Louis pay, shovelling a backhand under Blues netminder Jordan Binnington.
The Blues came back when Darnell Nurse was stripped of the puck behind the Oilers net. St. Louis forward Jordan Kyrou would fire a wrister past Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner to make it 1-1.
After the Blues were penalized for too many men, the Oilers’ potent power play struck again. Connor McDavid darted in down the right side, cut into the middle and blistered a shot past Binnington’s blocker for his 27th.
The Blues outshot the Oilers 12-5 in the period, with Skinner making several excellent saves.
Oilers winger Kailer Yamamoto deflected Tyson Barrie’s shot for his 100th career point halfway through the third.
Robert Thomas brought the Blues back within one only 49 seconds later.
Binnington kept the Blues alive with great saves off Yamamoto and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with seven minutes to go.
The Oilers went on the power play with just over a minute left, but Blues sniper Vladimir Tarasenko would tie it with a shorthanded goal with Binnington on the bench with 19.1 seconds on the clock.
The power play carried over into overtime for the Oilers, but they couldn’t cash in. They briefly celebrated a win when Leon Draisaitl jammed a puck past Binnington, but the league reviewed the play and ruled McDavid offside on the zone entry.
Kyrou scored the only goal in the shootout.
The Oilers (17-13-1) will host the Anaheim Ducks at Rogers Place on Saturday. You can listen to live coverage of the game on 630 CHED, beginning with The Faceoff Show at 12:30 p.m. The actual game starts at 2 p.m.
More to come…
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