In Winnipeg,the Jets and Edmonton Oilers appeared destined for extra time until Leon Draisaitl potted an improbable goal with less than one second left on the clock to lift the Oilers to a 4-3 decision.
“We got a nice fortunate one at the end,” Draisaitl said.
“McDavid obviously had it, had full control. He passed out front,” Winnipeg goalie Laurent Brossoit said. “I didn’t think [Draisaitl] could go five-hole considering [Andrew Copp] was on the ground. I was just trying to track any puck up high, and it went, obviously, under me.”
It was the last piece of the late heroics from the Oilers as Kailer Yamamoto tied the game up at 3-3 with less than four minutes left in regulation.
“We were playing [poorly],” the Oilers’ Kyle Turris said. “They played late last night, and they just jumped on us from the start. They were dominating the period, and we just played [poorly]. We knew we had to turn it around.”
Mikko Koskinen made 35 saves to get the unlikely win.
“Our special teams, they’re not what they need to be right now, but we’re getting some bad bounces,” Edmonton head coach Dave Tippett said. “Our penalty kill, we’ve had a couple bounce off of people’s skates and into the net. It’s frustrating … but maybe the luck is turning, the way the game ended.”
Adam Lowry, Blake Wheeler (power play) and Nikolaj Ehlers scored for Winnipeg.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Turris also scored for the Oilers.
“It felt great,” Turris said. “I obviously haven’t been contributing as much as I’d like, and I have to turn around and get going here. It was a great pass by [Zack Kassian] coming in the middle and feeding me on the right wing, and I just tried to get a shot off and bury it.”
Brossoit made 34 saves in the loss.
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