In Chicago, a battle of defenses ended with a 6-5 win for the Edmonton Oilers over the Blackhawks.
Leon Draisaitl scored with 38 seconds left in the game for the win.
Connor McDavid picked up his second hat trick of the season.
“It was a little ugly, pretty at some moments,” McDavid said. “I thought we just found a way tonight. It was a wild one for sure, lots of ups and downs, lots of emotion. It’s good to get a win. Some nights you have your stuff, and that was one of those nights. I felt pretty good all night and made some things happen. It was a big win. A lot of guys stepped up.”
Jack Campbell made 31 saves in the Oilers win.
Patrick Kane and Max Domi scored a goal apiece and three points in the loss.
“I think we deserved some points,” Chicago coach Luke Richardson said. “[We] fight back at the end, and we’ve got to make sure it’s a lesson we know. You can never let that happen in your own building or on the road, but especially in your own building. We worked hard, we were in a spirited game physically, we hung with them, we skated with them, special teams were pretty close to what their special teams were.”
The defensive struggle started with an Oilers goal from Zach Hyman for a 1-0 lead in the first period.
Chicago’s Andreas Athanasiou knotted the game, 1-1, off a break away about three minutes later.
The Blackhawks took a 2-1 lead off a strike from Reese Johnson in the 16th minute of the first.
McDavid tied the game, 2-2, with 18 seconds of fresh ice in the middle frame.
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Jonathan Toews put Chicago back in the lead, 3-2, 93 seconds gone in the second, his goal came off the power play.
“I thought we started the game well, and then it became a lot of penalties,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said. “I thought our penalty-kill competed hard. Our power play got the job done and found a way to get two points on the road. We’ll bank them and move on. It wasn’t exactly our script. It wasn’t how we wanted to win the game, but in the end, we found a result.”
McDavid tied it again with his second, and Domi replied with a goal for a 4-3 lead.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins posted a goal for a 4-4 tie.
McDavid and Kane traded goals in the third ahead of the Draisaitl winner.
“You tie it with three minutes left and you think you’re giving yourself a good chance at a point, and [Draisaitl] finds those open areas,” Kane said. “That’s what he’s so good at, that’s why he scores so many goals. “It would’ve been nice to get a point, at least.”
Alex Stalock made 32 saves in the Hawks loss.
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