Period One:

• The “kid line” of Yamamoto, Mcleod and Benson were buzzing early. Exposing Anders Nilsson’s rebound control which we became accustomed to back when he played for the Oilers.
• Marody takes a soft slashing call (it was really just an aggressive collision to my eye) but the Oilers have the better chance with Khaira just about connecting on the 2-on-1 pass.
• Jesse has looked real good along with the rest of his line. Benning finds him in the middle and he snipes it past Anders, 1-0 Oil.

•  The Canucks pushed back late in the period. Talbot had to be strong and after the Oil lost one of their guys on the play, he did this:

Overall:

Period Two:

• The Canucks struggled with the penalties to start things off. Off a quick shot there was a mess of players in and around the Vancouver net with Rattie sliding one in that would have surely come back on goalie interference in the regular season, 2-0 Oilers.

• The ice tilted the Canucks way through the rest of the first half of the second. And on a beauty feed across from Bo Horvat to Sven Baertschi, 2-1 Oilers.

• Talbot got fooled by that one but looked sharp throughout the bulk of this stanza.
• Oilers fourth PK of the game had some grade A chances and a post. Talbot came up huge.

Overall:

Period Three:

• As Jason Gregor mentioned in his GDB this afternoon, the Oilers planned to put Montoya in in the third stanza. He came in as planned.
• The Oilers came out much better than the last 15 minutes of game time has shown. They were rewarded for their efforts with a goal from Caleb Jones who recieved a nice little feed from Strome behind the goal line, 3-1 Oil

• After a short lived improved start, the Oilers started taking some dumb penalties. Kassian ran a pick behind the net and went off for two. The Canucks PP was buzzing after getting five cracks at a power-play, and they found the back of the net, 3-2 Oilers.
• Montoya was solid throughout the middle ten minutes of the third.
• Ben Hutton bobbled a puck out of mid-air and Rattie said “thank you very much”, slipping it between a guessing Nilsson, 4-2 Oilers.

• The Oilers took their seventh penalty of the game late but ended up with the bulk of the chances in the final five minutes.
• Shout out to Ty Rattie, who in a preseason game with the chance to net the hat trick instead opted to go to the corner and pin the puck deep to kill the clock.

The Wrap