In Ottawa, the visiting Edmonton Oilers blew a 3-1 lead to the Senators on Sunday afternoon in a 5-3 stunning loss. 
Jakob Chychrun snapped a 3-3 tie at 16:57 of the third period to help send the Senators to the win.
“Not a lot of [offensive] zone time in the third, that’s for sure,” Chychrun said. “The boys did a heck of a job of sticking with it and finding a way. We talk about it all the time. We feel like we’ve had games this year where we play really well and have a lot of chances and outchance the other team and don’t get the result we want, and it was kind of the opposite tonight. They outchanced us, and we had a goalie that was standing on his head for us.”
It was his second goal of the game.
Parker Kelly iced the rallying win when he hit an empty net with 40 seconds left on the game clock for the 5-3 final.
Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves in the win.
“That was fun,” Korpisalo said. “Battled the full 60 [minutes] with the boys and the way we battled, you want to make it count. And I think we did, so great job.”
The Senators moved to 30-36-4 off their second straight win.
The Oilers took a 1-0 lead in the opening stanza on a marker form Adam Henrique at 3:49, scoring from down low on the right side of the crease.
Chychrun potted his first of the match at 5:37 for a 1-1 tie, scoring off the power play.
The Oilers regained the lead when Leon Draisaitl hit off the power play at at 1:38 of the middle frame for a 2-1 lead.
“I mean, they were kind of all over us,” Ottawa’s Drake Batherson said. “I said to the boys, ‘The ice looks pretty good down in their end if we can get down there.’ But credit to the guys for keeping it out. Obviously, they hemmed us in a bit, and they’re going to do that with those players over there that they’ve got.”
Zach Hyman hit for his 50th marker of the campaign at 3:34 of the second, making the score 3-1 to the Oilers.
“From a guy that was just supposed to be a checker in the League, not sure if he’d ever make it to this league,” Edmonton’s Connor McDavid said of Hyman. “He’s worked for everything that he’s gotten, and now he’s a 50-goal scorer at the age of 31. It’s pretty impressive. It’s been cool to see and cool to kind of witness his transition to a goal-scorer.”
It was all downhill for the Oilers after that goal.
Edmonton dropped to 42-23-4, one night after losing the Toronto Maple Leafs, 6-3.
“I thought they got timely scoring,” McDavid said of the Senators. “It obviously felt like we were the better team and had the better chance (to win). We had the puck most of the night, but ultimately, they’re a skilled team, they capitalize on mistakes, and they did that tonight.”
In the second period, the Senators rallied for a pair of goals to get even with the Oilers, 3-3.
“Disappointing that we didn’t come home with the two points,” Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said. “I thought we had a lot of good opportunities, especially when we’re up 3-1 and things are looking good. Then we make a mistake and it’s 3-2 and they’re back in it when they looked like they were out of it. And then special teams, obviously that was a big part of this game.”
Tim Stutzle trimmed the deficit to 3-2 at 4:48, scoring off an odd man rush.
Batherson knotted the game, 3-3, at 16:30, hitting off the power play from the left circle.
“‘Korpi’ played great and made some really nice stops,” Batherson said. “They had a lot of shots and we didn’t have many, but we were able to capitalize there on the power play a few times.”
Ottawa scored three times off four power play chances, the Oilers netted two on three opportunities. 
Calvin Pickard made 11 saves in the loss.
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