THIRD PERIOD
The Oilers had their two-goal flurry late in the second period and the Ducks started the third with one of their own, getting quick tallies from two of their top young talents, Leo Carlsson and Olen Zellweger, to knot the game back up at 4-4.
Carlsson knocked in a rebound off a Trouba shot 1:30 into the period and Zellweger lifted a seeing-eye point shot through traffic past Jarry for the equalizer.
Savoie’s stellar night continued when he put the Oilers back up by one with three seconds left on a power play that resulted from McDavid getting hauled down by Moore on a partial breakaway. The 22-year-old added the goal to his two assists to record the first three-point game of his young NHL career.
“That’s one of his strongest games this year,” Head Coach Kris Knoblauch said of Savoie. “He scores on the power play, and five on five he’s creating a lot of chances.”
The lead was once again short-lived, though, as Sennecke toe-dragged and tallied a five-hole shot past Jarry just 46 seconds after Savoie’s goal to make it 5-5. The Oilers replaced Jarry with Connor Ingram after the fifth goal against before Gauthier tallied the eventual winner.
“I wasn’t happy with the goaltending,” Knoblauch said of the swap. “The goals that we gave up, especially in the third period, yeah I didn’t like those. Definitely there were other mistakes, but part of it is you need better goaltending and tonight wasn’t one of his best games.”
“It’s tough,” Jarry said. “The game’s kind of going back and forth, but obviously if I make an extra save here or there, the game could be different.”