Lucas Raymond and Dylan Larkin scored in a shootout to finish a comeback from a two-goal deficit and provides the Detroit Pink Wings a 3-2 win over the host Edmonton Oilers on Thursday evening.
Alex Lyon made 45 saves and denied Connor McDavid within the shootout. Edmonton’s Ryan Nugent-Hopkins missed the goal within the game-ending tiebreaker.
Michael Rasmussen and Larkin scored in regulation for the Pink Wings, who received their fourth straight recreation.
Leon Draisaitl and Jeff Skinner acquired the targets for the Oilers, who had their three-game successful streak finish. Stuart Skinner stopped 32 photographs.
Detroit scored twice within the second interval to tie the sport 2-2.
Rasmussen tipped Jonatan Berggren’s shot out of the air and at 9:59 to place the Pink Wings on the board. Larkin tied it with 8:14 left within the center interval when he swept in off proper wing and beat Skinner between the pads.
Draisaitl netted a power-play objective to open the scoring 6:49 into the sport. He one-timed a unfastened puck from the suitable circle previous Lyon. The puck had bounced over the stick of Detroit defenseman Ben Chiarot, who was making an attempt to clear the puck out of the zone, simply earlier than it acquired to Draisaitl, who logged his league-leading thirty sixth objective.
Skinner made it 2-0 with 9:31 left within the first interval when he slid a unfastened puck right into a vacated web from simply outdoors the crease.
Defenseman John Klingberg made his season debut and his first look for the Oilers. He had final performed in November 2023 with the Toronto Maple Leafs, then was out for 14 months after surgical procedures on each hips. Edmonton signed Klingberg to a one-year contract on Jan. 17. He had a shot, a giveaway and was minus-1 in 16:39 of ice time.
The Pink Wings’ Vladimir Tarasenko returned after lacking a recreation due to an sickness and performed within the 800th of his profession.
McDavid (Canada) and Oilers defenseman Mattias Ekholm (Sweden) had been named Thursday as alternate captains for his or her international locations within the 4 Nations Face-Off, which is able to run Feb. 12-20 in Montreal and Boston.
–Area Stage Media