St. Louis Blues knock off Edmonton Oilers in a shootout Thursday night – Edmonton | 24CA News
The St. Louis Blues got here again from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in a shootout Thursday night time at Rogers Place.
The Oilers went on an influence play within the first minute of the sport when St. Louis was penalized for beginning the mistaken lineup.
Edmonton ahead Zach Hyman made St. Louis pay, shovelling a backhand beneath Blues netminder Jordan Binnington.
The Blues got here again when Darnell Nurse was stripped of the puck behind the Oilers internet. St. Louis ahead Jordan Kyrou would hearth a wrister previous Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner to make it 1-1.
After the Blues have been penalized for too many males, the Oilers’ potent energy play struck once more. Connor McDavid darted in down the best facet, reduce into the center and blistered a shot previous Binnington’s blocker for his twenty seventh.
The Blues outshot the Oilers 12-5 within the interval, with Skinner making a number of glorious saves.
Oilers winger Kailer Yamamoto deflected Tyson Barrie’s shot for his one hundredth profession level midway by way of the third.
Robert Thomas introduced the Blues again inside one solely 49 seconds later.
Binnington stored the Blues alive with nice saves off Yamamoto and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with seven minutes to go.
The Oilers went on the ability play with simply over a minute left, however Blues sniper Vladimir Tarasenko would tie it with a shorthanded aim with Binnington on the bench with 19.1 seconds on the clock.
The energy play carried over into extra time for the Oilers, however they couldn’t money in. They briefly celebrated a win when Leon Draisaitl jammed a puck previous Binnington, however the league reviewed the play and dominated McDavid offside on the zone entry.
Kyrou scored the one aim within the shootout.
The Oilers (17-13-1) will host the Anaheim Ducks at Rogers Place on Saturday. You can hearken to dwell protection of the sport on 630 CHED, starting with The Faceoff Show at 12:30 p.m. The precise sport begins at 2 p.m.
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