In Edmonton, five different skaters scored for the Oilers on Saturday night in a 5-1 win over th3e Vancouver Canucks. 
“Nothing to be satisfied or excited about. We just bought ourselves another day, and I would expect the same level of urgency and desperation from our group,” the Oilers’ Connor McDavid said. “I would expect Vancouver to play a better game as well, and I would expect it to be a highly competitive, great Game 7.”
The win evened the Stanley Cup Playoff second round series at 3-3.
A deciding Game 7 will in Vancouver on Monday night.
“You’re disappointed a little bit, but you know that we are a good bounce-back team,” Vancouver coach Rick Tocchet said. “Our job is we’ve got to flush this game. Some guys know they’ve got to play better, and you’ve got 48 hours to get your energy back. It’s a Game 7. People would kill to be in this situation right now, and we’ve got to make sure that we act like we want to be in that situation.
“Play like you want to be a hero on Monday, that’s what I think.”
The two teams played to a 1-1 draw in the opening stanza.
Dylan Holloway staked the Oilers to a 1-0 lead at 8:18, he scored following a pass form Leon Draisaitl and push to the net for the goal.
“They were kind of cheating, thinking that Leo was going to pick up the puck and he did,” Holloway said. “I was able to gain some speed, and he made a nice play to me and I kind of caught their ‘D’ flat-footed.
“I was happy for that one to go in. It felt pretty good.”
Nils Hoglander s was the lone striker for the Canucks, his goal midway through the first period tied the game, 1-1. He scored off a rebound of his initial shot for the tie.
Stuart Skinner made 14 saves in the win.
Zach Hyman scored what would be the game winner at 7:14 of the middle frame.
“The more looks you get, just by nature you’re going to score more,” Hyman said. “And I think we did a good job of producing more looks tonight and then capitalizing.”
Draisaitl assisted on the goal with a pass to the low slot.
Evan Bouchard extended the lead to 3- at 11:20, scoring off a shot from the right point.
“I think those two quick goals, we mismanaged the puck and it just unraveled from there,” Tocchet said. “Edmonton, when they got those goals, especially the second and the third, they built energy.
“You could tell they had a lot of legs and they started dictating play.”
Vancouver was outshot, badly in the middle frame, 14-5.
In the third period, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stretched the advantage to 4-1 at 3:25, scoring off a tap in of a pass from the McDavid.
“I guess now we’re going to play seven games and things are going to happen. It’s hard to play seven amazing games,” Hughes said. “If you told us we had this opportunity in September, I think we would have took it and probably would have taken it three or four weeks ago as well. So, we’ll be excited.”
Evander Kane padded the lead with a marker at 13:04, he scored off another assist from Draisaitl for the 5-1 final count on the scoreboard. 
Arturs Silovs made 22 save in the loss.
“It’s not the recipe for success,” Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson said. “Obviously, we’ve won games with not many shots, but it is what it is.
“They won today. It’s a seven-game series for a reason. I’m excited for it. I know the barn is going to be loud, the fans are going to be into it, and those are the type of games you want to play.”
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