<p>The Edmonton Oilers picked up their eighth win in a row on Tuesday night with a 2-1 victory in overtime over the Colorado Avalanche. Below are the highlights from the game&#8230;</p>
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<p>The Avalanche opened the scoring about five minutes into the first period. Colorado forward Ben Meyers followed a bouncing puck into Edmonton&#8217;s zone and Oilers forward Nick Bjugstad inadvertently swept it past Stuart Skinner while defending the play&#8230;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">the colorado avalanche take an early 1-0 lead off a weird bounce or few. <a href="https://t.co/W5g1zCsuDn">pic.twitter.com/W5g1zCsuDn</a></p>
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<p>The Oilers tied the game at 1-1 under one minute later. Ryan McLeod carried the puck into Colorado&#8217;s zone and dropped it back for Mattias Ekholm who blasted a one-timer past Alexandar Georgiev for his fourth goal as a member of the Oilers&#8230;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">mattias ekholm with a blast to tie the game back up at one. <a href="https://t.co/8xQfJ8WUgH">pic.twitter.com/8xQfJ8WUgH</a></p>
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<p>The two teams remained tied through the rest of regulation time so the game went to a winner-take-all overtime period. With Avs defenceman Bowen Byram in the penalty box for hooking, Evan Bouchard faked a pass to Connor McDavid from the point and roofed a shot over Georgiev for the game-winner&#8230;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">evan bouchard wins the game for the oilers with this overtime tally for the oilers&#39; eighth straight victory. <a href="https://t.co/iQq8iG7iIK">pic.twitter.com/iQq8iG7iIK</a></p>
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The Edmonton Oilers picked up their eighth win in a row on Tuesday night with a 2-1 victory in overtime over the Colorado Avalanche. Below are the highlights from the game...


<h2 style="text-align: center"><strong>GAME HIGHLIGHTS ARE PRESENTED BY BETWAY</strong></h2>
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-122158 size-full" src="https://publish.oilersnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Betway-Article-Image.jpeg" alt="" width="740" height="222" />

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The Avalanche opened the scoring about five minutes into the first period. Colorado forward Ben Meyers followed a bouncing puck into Edmonton's zone and Oilers forward Nick Bjugstad inadvertently swept it past Stuart Skinner while defending the play...

https://twitter.com/zjlaing/status/1645969406198169602?s=20

The Oilers tied the game at 1-1 under one minute later. Ryan McLeod carried the puck into Colorado's zone and dropped it back for Mattias Ekholm who blasted a one-timer past Alexandar Georgiev for his fourth goal as a member of the Oilers...

https://twitter.com/zjlaing/status/1645969816015245312?s=20

The two teams remained tied through the rest of regulation time so the game went to a winner-take-all overtime period. With Avs defenceman Bowen Byram in the penalty box for hooking, Evan Bouchard faked a pass to Connor McDavid from the point and roofed a shot over Georgiev for the game-winner...

https://twitter.com/zjlaing/status/1646004546752372736?s=20

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