Wyatt Johnston scored the winning tally in the shootout, beating Stuart Skinner’s glove with a wrist shot from the slot.<\/p>\n
Johnston also had three assists, and Miro Heiskanen scored for the Stars (7-3-3), who extended their point streak to seven games (4-0-3). Casey DeSmith made 23 saves.<\/p>\n
Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, and Leon Draisaitl and Vasily Podkolzin each scored for the Oilers (6-5-4), who are 2-3-2 in their past seven. Stuart Skinner made 24 saves, and Jack Roslovic had two assists.<\/p>\n
The Oilers took a 1-0 lead at 3:40 of the first period when Roslovic sent a one-handed pass across the crease to Podkolzin, who beat DeSmith with a quick shot from in tight.<\/p>\n
Draisaitl made it 2-0 at 7:07 when he scored with a sharp-angle shot from the goal line to the right of the net on the power play.<\/p>\n
Rantanen cut the lead to 2-1 at 9:10 of the second period, batting in a rebound after Johnston hit the post on the power play. It was also Rantanen’s 300th NHL goal.<\/p>\n
McDavid pushed it to 3-1 at 7:51 in the third period with a wrist shot from the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n
Rantanen cut the deficit to 3-2 with his second goal at 8:37 when he beat Skinner’s blocker with a shot from in front.<\/p>\n
Heiskanen tied it 3-3 at 12:20. Rantanen took a shot that rebounded off the end boards directly to Heiskanen, who buried it into the wide-open net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt Johnston scored the winning tally in the shootout, beating Stuart Skinner’s glove with a wrist shot from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-263537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}