EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Happy birthday, Bouch!<\/p>\n
Evan\u00a0Bouchard scored the emphatic winner on his 27th birthday, tucking his snap shot under the crossbar with 1:28 left in overtime as the Edmonton Oilers staved off a resilient Minnesota Wild comeback in the third period to earn the extra point in a 4-3 victory on Tuesday night at Rogers Place.<\/p>\n
“The power play was a big part of this game,” Bouchard said. “Our penalty kill was stellar tonight, too. I just kind of got the puck in an open lane and took my shot.”<\/p>\n
Leon Draisaitl had a pair of power-play goals, taking over the team lead with eight this season, while Connor\u00a0McDavid extended his season-opening point streak to nine games with three assists and continued his torrid pace to begin the campaign.<\/p>\n
The Oilers went 3-for-5 on the power play, while the penalty kill was a perfect 3-for-3 against the Wild’s second-ranked man advantage in the NHL coming into Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“They pressed hard,” Bouchard\u00a0said. “They’re a good hockey team. They weren’t going to quit. There are definitely some things to clean up, but in the end, we battled and got the win we needed.”<\/p>\n
McDavid became the fastest player to reach 20 assists in a single season in NHL history, and the sixth player to record 25 points in the first 10 games of a season.<\/p>\n
The Oilers captain now leads the League with six goals and 20 assists in nine games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, AB \u2013 Happy birthday, Bouch! Evan\u00a0Bouchard scored the emphatic winner on his 27th birthday, tucking his snap…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-941174","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\/941174","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=941174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}