In Edmonton, Zach Hyman staked the Oilers to a 2-0 lead in the second period on Saturday night.
As is customary, the Oilers coughed up the lead and lost, 3-2 to the Colorado Avalanche, in extra time.
“I’m really happy with the way we played tonight. I thought it was a full 60, no question,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “Even though the score was leaning the other way after 40 minutes, I thought 5-on-5, the guys played really well. They’re a dangerous power play and they got a couple on that, but 5-on-5 the commitment to check produced good scoring chances through the course of the game. I felt like if we stuck with it and got a little puck-luck in the third period, we’d give ourselves a chance without changing too much, and we did that.”
Cale Makar scored with 2:09 gone n the extra session for the win.
The victory ended an ugly five-game skid for the Avs.
“They are a really good team and we’re pushing the entire night,” Hyman said. “Our special teams were really good. I thought ‘Stu’ [Stuart Skinner.] was great. They made a push there and tied the game up and won in OT. It’s a game of inches. I had a lot of chances. It would have been nice to bear down on one of them and get the win there, but they are a good team.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 28 saves in the Colorado win, he also picked up an assist.
The Avalanche moved to 20-15-3.
Nathan MacKinnon and Brad Hunt scored for Colorado in the third period to force the extra session.
“It’s awesome. I think this win brings the guys closer together and it’s good to end the road trip on a positive note. Now we go home and hopefully we can keep this thing rolling,” Hunt said. “It was really cool to tie it up like that, but without the rest of the guys on the team, it wouldn’t have happened. They did a great job and I’m just happy we got the win. I was just coming off the bench, saw the puck there and used our guy as a bit of a screen and I was lucky enough that it went in.”
Edmonton dropped to 21-17-3.
“I thought it was a really competitive hockey game, I thought our special teams were really good tonight,” Edmonton coach Jay Woodcroft said. “They got a 5-on-5 goal and a 4-on-4 goal that we’d like to have back, and in overtime we hit the crossbar two times. They have some special players and we have some special players, and special players on both teams made good plays tonight.”
Skinner. made 43 saves in the Oilers loss.
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