It all started Tuesday night in the Edmonton Oilers’ defensive zone in overtime. Robert Thomas carried the puck across the blue line, looking to make a move around Evan Bouchard.

But the young defenceman who has been the subject of vitriol all season made a smooth play, stick-checking the 25-year-old and sending the puck back into the neutral zone. It forced the Blues to dump the puck in, which Bouchard was happy to retrieve behind Edmonton’s net.

He skated the puck up the ice and into St. Louis’ end on the counterattack, pushing back a trio of young Blues: Jake Neighbours, Dylan Holloway, and Philip Broberg. As Connor Brown drove down towards the net, Bouchard got the puck to Connor McDavid.

The rest will be seen on highlight reels for years to come.

With speed in his step, he put Holloway and Broberg in a blender, faking out the former and sending the latter falling to the ice as he dished a quick backhand to Brown, who made no mistake in sealing an overtime win for the Oilers — and scoring his first career overtime goal.

“I just tried to get open and it worked,” Brown told Sportsnet’s Mark Spector after the game. “So, yeah, that was a nice little treat for me.”

It capped off a come-from-behind victory for Edmonton, in somewhat ironic fashion, given the two Blues McDavid caught in the spin cycle were Holloway and Broberg — the former Oilers who signed offer sheets in St. Louis that Jeff Jackson and co. declined to match. No hard feelings though, right?

Both players have found success in The Lou. Holloway is second on the team in points, scoring 16 goals and 39 points in 54 games, while Broberg has found some offence in his game, too, with three goals and 15 points in 41 games. The latter missed some time earlier this year due to a knee injury.

Holloway’s spoken out about his choice to accept the offer sheet, telling the WhatChaos! podcast in January that he didn’t feel like he was “going to get a ton of opportunity.” Given the team had signed Jeff Skinner and Viktor Arvidsson to fill holes in the top nine, Holloway’s concern was just.

But more importantly for the Oilers as a whole, Tuesday’s win helped them secure sole possession of first place in the Pacific Division, surging to a 6-3-1 record in their last 10 games. They got an assist from the New York Islanders, who beat the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1, as they continue to sputter, falling to 2-5-3 in their last 10.

The Oilers have a chance to continue building that lead Wednesday night as they visit the Chicago Blackhawks.

Zach Laing is Oilersnation’s associate editor, senior columnist, and The Nation Network’s news director. He also makes up one-half of the DFO DFS Report. He can be followed on Twitter, currently known as X, at @zjlaing, or reached by email at zach@thenationnetwork.com.