THIRD PERIOD<\/p>\n
Bouchard struck the crossbar at the other end before Ekholm was called for a soft holding penalty on Pettersson five minutes into the third period, resulting in the Canucks equalizing on the ensuing power play and ultimately forcing overtime on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Lekkerim\u00e4ki received a cross-ice feed from Canucks’ captain Quinn Hughes in the left circle and snuck his one-timer short side on Pickard to make it 2-2 with 5:58 gone in the final stanza. The Vancouver rookie was responsible for both of his team’s goals in regulation and had a chance to load up on an extended five-on-three for the hosts before the end of regulation.<\/p>\n
Andrew Mangiapane was called for roughing before an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty assessed to Draisaitl for removing the helmet of Pettersson just 14 seconds into the penalty kill set up an extended two-man advantage for the Canucks, but Evander Kane made it five-on-four less than 30 seconds in by tripping Ty Emberson.<\/p>\n
Pickward was outstanding on the penalty kill, making four saves on the extended power play, which included a top-notch save against Brock Boeser on a one-timer from the slot. The Oilers escaped harm to send us to overtime, but Coach Knoblauch said they reverted back to a little bit of the sloppiness they showed in the opening frame.<\/p>\n
“I think in the first period, we were a little sleepy and didn’t execute very well,” he said. “Maybe later in the period, I thought we started playing better. Second period, I thought it was our best period. In the third period, it was back to being sloppy and giving up the puck too much, especially in the offensive zone just inside the blueline. We really fed their transition, and then we have to defend.<\/p>\n
“Fortunately for us, Picks had an outstanding third period, making some really nice saves on the penalty kill and five-on-five to allow it to go into extra time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THIRD PERIOD Bouchard struck the crossbar at the other end before Ekholm was called for a soft holding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-189224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}