leon draisaitl gives the oilers a 1-0 lead over the jets with a powerplay goal.
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Game Highlights 63.0: Edmonton Oilers beat Winnipeg Jets 6-3
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The Edmonton Oilers defeated the Winnipeg Jets in the first game of a home-and-home by a score of 6-3. Below are the highlights from the game…
GAME HIGHLIGHTS ARE PRESENTED BY BETWAY
The Jets gave the Oilers a chance with the man advantage just over one minute into the game and Leon Draisaitl sniped his 37th goal of the season to give the team an early 1-0 lead…
Early in the second period, Dylan DeMelo wasn’t able to break the puck out of Winnipeg’s zone and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins buried his 29th goal of the season to make the score 2-0…
ryan nugent-hopkins capitalizes on a great pass from dylan demelo giving the oilers a 2-0 lead.
The floodgates started to open up later in the second frame. Nugent-Hopkins skates back to break up a Winnipeg two-on-one and fired a pass up the ice to spring Kailer Yamamoto on a breakaway. Yamamoto deked out Connor Hellebuyck and roofed a backhander to make the score 3-0…
my lord. what an incredible backcheck by ryan nugent-hopkins, who has a tremendous feed to kailer yamamoto to make it 3-0.
Under one minute later, Yamamoto scored again to extend Edmonton’s lead to 4-0…
yamamoto again! his second of the game gives the oilers a 4-0 lead.
The Jets continued to give the Oilers power-play opportunities and they converted another goal early in the third period. Leon Draisaitl fired a pass from behind the net to Connor McDavid who tapped it to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins who made no mistake in burying his 30th goal of the season…
tic-tac-toe. draisaitl-mcdavid-nuge. 5-0 oilers.
Stuart Skinner carried a shutout into the third period but Axel Jonsson-Fjallby put the Jets on the board six minutes into the frame…
axel jonsson-fjallby breaks stuart skinner's shutout bid.
Leon Draisaitl got that goal back almost immediately after with a snipe from an impossible angle…
leon draisaitl picks his spot and makes it 6-1.
Things started to get rough toward the end of the game. Logan Stanley drilled Derek Ryan into the boards with a questionable hit and was given two minor penalties for roughing…
With under one minute left on the clock, Saku Maenalanen roughed up Philip Broberg in front of Edmonton’s net and was given a two-minute penalty for cross-checking…
saku maenalanen cross checks philip broberg right in the mouth not long after he was jawing with darnell nurse. have to imagine this is addressed when these two teams meet against saturday night.
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