Game Highlights 57.0: Colorado Avalanche beat Edmonton Oilers 6-5 in overtime

The skid continues.

The Edmonton Oilers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, blowing a 3-0 to the Avalanche in Colorado before ultimately losing the game in overtime.

Below are the highlights from the game…

Warren Foegele took a couple of penalties in the first period but the Oilers killed both of them off and then he made up for it by opening the scoring…

Early in the second period, Foegele notched his second goal of the afternoon to put the Oilers up by a score of 2-0…

Not long after that, the Oilers extended their lead to 3-0 when Ryan Nugent-Hopkins fed Leon Draisatl beside the net for one of his classic one-timers…

Colorado responded quickly and pulled themselves back into the game. Nathan MacKinnon fired a shot through a screen that made its way through Jack Campbell…

Later in the second period, the Avs made the score 3-2 when Valeri Vichushkin tried to make a pass through Edmonton’s crease but it bounced off of Cody Ceci’s skate and past Campbell…

The Oilers gave themselves a little bit of a cushion before the end of the second period as Tyson Barrie scored a goal against his former team…

Right off the hop in the third period, Nathan MacKinnon scored a beautiful goal to make the score 4-3…

The Oilers again managed to extend their lead back to two goals, this time thanks to a clapper from the high slot from Mattias Janmark…

The Avs again cut into Edmonton’s lead in the middle of the third period. Jack Campbell stretched his pad across the crease to make a nice stop but Logan O’Connor stood on the doorstep and shoved the puck into the net…

With under five minutes left on the clock in regulation time, Artturi Lehkonen tied the game at 5-5…

In overtime, Mikko Rantanen shielded the puck from Darnell Nurse and waited out Campbell before firing the game-winner into the open net…