Zach Hyman prolonged his purpose streak to 6 video games and Stuart Skinner made 20 saves because the Edmonton Oilers moved into second place within the Pacific Division with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Ottawa Senators on Sunday evening.
Hyman’s go-ahead purpose within the second interval enabled him to match his career-high purpose streak. Viktor Arvidsson had a purpose and an help and Adam Henrique additionally scored for Edmonton, which gained for the eleventh time in its final 13 video games and leapfrogged the Los Angeles Kings into second place, three factors behind the first-place Vegas Golden Knights.
Nick Cousins scored for Ottawa, which had a six-game win streak — its longest since March of 2017 — snapped.
Linus Ullmark, who entered the competition with a private seven-game win streak for the Senators, departed on the finish of the primary interval with an upper-body harm after making six saves. Leevi Merilainen, who picked up his first NHL win on Saturday at Vancouver, completed up and stopped 12 of 14 pictures.
Edmonton took a 1-0 lead on the 14:26 mark of the primary interval when Arvidsson knocked in Connor McDavid’s crossing move from the left nook inside the fitting put up.
Ottawa tied it 25 seconds into the second interval when Cousins stole the puck from Evan Bouchard on the blue line after which went in on a breakaway and roofed a wrist shot into the top-left nook of the web.
Hyman put the Oilers again in entrance with a power-play purpose, sweeping in a rebound of a Arvidsson shot into an open proper facet of the web for his tenth during the last 9 video games.
Henrique prolonged the result in 3-1 early within the third interval together with his first purpose in 16 video games courting again to Nov. 16, burying a wrist shot from the excessive slot off a Mattias Janmark setup.
Ottawa pulled Merilainen for an additional attacker with 3:21 remaining however Skinner turned away all 4 Senators pictures on purpose down the stretch to seal the win.
–Subject Degree Media
