Oilers rally for NHL-record 5th straight time, beat Golden Knights 4-2 in 2nd-round playoff opener

Zach Hyman scored from conscionable supra the close ellipse with 3:02 near to enactment Edmonton up for good, and the Oilers rallied yet again this post-season to bushed the Vegas Golden Knights 4-2 connected Tuesday nighttime successful Game 1 of the second-round playoff series.

The Oilers, who came backmost from 2-0 down, acceptable a National Hockey League grounds with their fifth consecutive playoff comeback victory.

“I deliberation this squad is built for the playoffs,” Hyman said astir the 5 comeback wins. “We are built with guys who person experience, who person been here, who tin instrumentality their crippled to different level. I deliberation we person a agelong mode to spell here.”

Vegas, which had conscionable 7 shots connected extremity implicit the last 2 periods, mislaid a playoff crippled successful regularisation aft starring by astatine slightest 2 goals for the archetypal time. The Golden Knights are 47-4 wide successful the post-season with that benignant of lead.

Game 2 is Thursday nighttime successful Las Vegas.

Leon Draisaitl had a extremity and an assistance for the Oilers, and Corey Perry and Connor Brown scored the different goals.

Evan Bouchard and Connor McDavid each had 2 assists. McDavid present has 4 consecutive post-seasons with astatine slightest 10 assists for fourth-best successful league history. Calvin Pickard was hardly tested aft the archetypal play and finished with 15 saves.

Mark Stone scored some goals for the Golden Knights to necktie Jonathan Marchessault’s franchise grounds with 36 for his Vegas career. It besides extended his goal-scoring streak to 3 games. Adin Hill made 24 saves.

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Both star-studded apical lines delivered successful the archetypal period, with Stone scoring twice, the archetypal connected a double-minor powerfulness play. Edmonton’s apical portion chopped the shortage successful fractional with 3:34 near erstwhile Perry deked Hill for an unfastened nett with McDavid and Draisaitl getting assists connected the play.

Neither squad scored successful the 2nd play adjacent though the Oilers outshot Vegas 12-1. The Golden Knights had ne'er been held to less than 2 shots connected extremity successful a regularisation playoff period.

Edmonton didn’t discarded a accidental aboriginal successful the third, tying the score 57 seconds successful erstwhile Draisaitl backhanded a changeable disconnected the boards and disconnected Hill.

Hyman, who earlier successful the displacement took a instrumentality to the look from Kaedan Korczak, broke the necktie successful the closing minutes, and Brown sealed the triumph 1:16 later.

“I deliberation if you tin prime a play that you are going to beryllium the strongest in, arsenic a coach, you privation to beryllium champion successful the 3rd period,” Oilers caput manager Kris Knoblauch said aft the game.

Golden Knights defenceman Alex Pietrangelo did not play due to the fact that of an illness, allowing Korczak to marque his archetypal vocation post-season start.

Vegas besides was without Pavel Dorofeyev, who led the squad with 35 goals this season, for the 2nd crippled successful a enactment due to the fact that of an undisclosed injury. Coach Bruce Cassidy has described him arsenic time to day.