Again, I thought we got off to a better start. "They're a team that's obviously feeling it. McDavid on the Oilers giving up the first goal for the 15th time in 24 games this season: Work hard, get pucks back, and eventually, they'll start going in." Obviously, this is one of them where it wasn't going in, so we've got to continue doing the right things on the power play. You go through stretches where it doesn't go in for you, and we went through a long stretch where it was going in. I thought we had our looks, but probably didn't win enough battles on the power play. McDavid on what lacked on the man advantage for the Oilers on an 0-for-5 night for the power play: Video: POST-RAW | Evan Bouchard, Zack Kassian 12.07.21 at the end of the day, it matters about two points and we didn't get them tonight." A tough third period for us, especially because we thought we played a pretty good game for the most part. We felt like we could've won the game until probably halfway through the third period when they got that one, and then we're chasing it. I don't think we deserved the outcome in the first period, but that's the way hockey is sometimes. Zack Kassian on a better team performance tonight despite the losing result: Two goals in the opening 10 minutes from Minnesota was their buffer to victory, as the visitors didn't muster much offensively after that with the exception of Victor Rask's insurance goal five-and-a-half minutes into the final frame and defenceman Dmitry Kulikov's rare breakaway tally.įormer Oilers goaltender Cam Talbot backstopped the Wild with 38 saves on 39 shots, improving his record to 14-5-0 this campaign. The Oilers crease guard made 22 saves on 26 shots and fell to 12-4-0 on the year. Koskinen parried away Nick Bjugstad's shot on an odd-man Wild rush with the blocker midway through the second period for his most decisive action of the night.
PLAY OF THE GAMEīreaking across the Wild blueline with support six minutes into the second frame, McDavid stickhandled his way through the offensive zone and put a shot on goal before collecting the rebound and emerging from behind the net to pass off to Puljujarvi, who snapped home his eighth goal of the season past Cam Talbot. Minnesota's 29th-ranked power play in the NHL converted on their only opportunity in the opening frame, while Edmonton went 0-for-2. The Wild struck first on the power play just 1:11 into the first period when Joel Eriksson Ek got two whacks at a loose puck to the right of Mikko Koskinen and jammed home the go-ahead goal with the Finn off his post.
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