Leon Draisaitl scored in extra time for the fourth time in the playoffs, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 in game 4 of the Stanley Cup final on Thursday night to tie the series, erasing a three-goal and a overflow.
Jake Walman gave the Oilers his first advantage with 6:24 remaining in the third period before Sam Reinhart scored with 19.5 seconds to send it to extra time. Three of the first four games of this final have needed extra time to resolve, the first time it has happened since 2013 and the fifth time in the history of the NHL.
The goal of Draisaitl 11:18 in OT, the fourth additional hockey session among the thesis teams, sent the return series west of Canada. Game 5 of what is becoming a classic round trip between two heavy pesos of hockey is Saturday night in Edmonton.
“It is obviously a lucky rebound. There is no secret about it. We will take it,” Draisaitl said.
“We are a resistant group. We are never going to quit no matter what. We will take it and go home,” he added. “The first thing is that we wanted and then we began to get our legs … That is the intensity we have to play when the album falls.”
Draisaitl set an nhl playoff record with His fourth overtime goal in one postseason, breaking a tie he shared with four players including flower’s matthew tkachuk in 2023, current teammate chorey, Whoiheive, Whoiheme, Whohemem it was to the hi was young hi is his is to his. Joing Montreal’s John Leclair, Who Scored Two Goals Win About Los Angeles In 1993, and New York Rangers Don Raleigh in 1950.
The Oilers became the first road team to recover from three to win a game in the final from the Montreal Canadiens against the Metropolitans of Seattle in 1919. Only six teams have returned from the history of the NHL, the last time in 2006.
Edmonton is very much in him, just after it seemed that he would leave the series. The Oilers were 3-0 in the first period in a couple of goals from Matthew Tkachuk and another with 41.7 remaining seconds of Anton Lundell, which could have been a rear switch.
Coach Kris Knoblauch took Stuart Skinner after his headline allowed those goals in 17 shots in the first, when the ice was inclined against him and his teammates did not have much rejection. In Wern Calvin Pickard, Journeyman’s support that won the six beginnings of the playoffs before being tried.
Pickard made some acrobatic salvations, stopping the first 18 shots that he faced and racing the way for a return to the century. Ryan Ngent-Hopkins scored in Edmonton’s first power work, Darnell’s nurse defeated Sergei Bobrovsky with another tall shot and Vasily Podkolzin did it 3-all with less than five minutes remaining in the second.
With Draisaitl in the penalty box to start the third, the oilers were on their heels for several minutes and trusted Pickard to keep the score tied. Each Severy shot that faced until Walman fired the album felt Bobrosky to silence a large majority of the crowd and incite a roar of Edmonton fans among those who attended, Alh Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, and Travis Kelce.
Panthers fans had another chance to cheer when Reinhart tied it late. Then Draisaitl calmed them again.
With Wayne Gretzky, Jaromir Jag and Henrik Lundqvist, the oilers, the oilers made sure they did not come out silently and fall 3-1 in the final as they did last year. They forced game 7, but finally they fell short, with Florida winning the cup for the first time in the history of the franchise.
Now, each of these teams is a couple of victories to be champions.