SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers couldn’t defend three separate leads on Tuesday in a 6-5 overtime defeat to the Utah Mammoth, opening their back-to-back and three-game road trip at Delta Center with a single point to stay atop the Pacific Division.<\/p>\n
“They have a lot of skill and were able to capitalize when given opportunities in big moments,” Darnell Nurse said. “There were areas of the game that we could have been better for sure, but we’ll build off the things that were good tonight and get ready for tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
The Oilers held separate leads of 3-1, 4-3 and 5-4 during regulation, but were forced to settle for only a single point after the Mammoth battled back to force\u00a0overtime and win it only 35 seconds into the extra period on a power-play snipe from Clayton Keller.<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist for Utah along with Alex\u00a0Kerfoot, and Nick Schmaltz reached 30 goals on the season with a two-goal effort, including one shorthanded that made it 4-4 before the second intermission.<\/p>\n
Connor McDavid scored a dazzling goal on the power play to go along with an assist, while Curtis Lazar, Ryan\u00a0Nugent-Hopkins, Vasily Podkolzin and Colton Dach also scored in the defeat that was Edmonton’s first against the Utah franchise in seven meetings.<\/p>\n
Mattias Ekholm recorded his 400th career point with the assist on Lazar’s quick response that came just 11 seconds after J.J. Peterka opened the scoring for Utah less than two minutes into the first period.<\/p>\n
The Oilers hold onto first place in the Pacific with the point after Vegas defeated Vancouver, and Anaheim was shut out by Calgary to fall to third in the division.<\/p>\n
Edmonton will wrap up its back-to-back on Wednesday night against San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY, UT \u2013 The Edmonton Oilers couldn’t defend three separate leads on Tuesday in a 6-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-589775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589775","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=589775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}