Draisaitl stars as Oilers end skid with win over Canucks
VANCOUVER: Leon Draisaitl scored two powerplay goals and the Edmonton Oilers snapped a two-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.
Josh Archibald also scored for the Oilers (17-93). Connor Mcdavid and Alex Chiasson each had two assists. Mikko Koskinen stopped 30 shots.
Josh Leivo and Brock Boeser scored the Canucks (13-11-4), who are 3-3-0 in their last six games.
Loui Eriksson was in the penalty box for both of Draisaitl’s goals.
The Canucks beat the Oilers 5-2 in Edmonton on Saturday night, ending a season-long six-game trip.
Goaltender Jacob Markstrom, making his first back-to-back start of the season, stopped 26 shots for Vancouver.
Draisaitl scored just 46 seconds into the third, giving Edmonton a 3-2 lead. He took a pass from James Neal and was untouched, scoring on a backdoor play.
The Canucks outshot the Oilers 23-14 through 40 minutes and the teams were tied 2-all.
Vancouver went ahead 2-1 at 12:06 of the second period on Leivo’s fourth goal of the season. Defenseman Jordie Benn fired a puck into traffic that was blocked. Leivo grabbed the rebound and slid it past Koskinen for his second goal in two nights after going 15 games without scoring.
Draisaitl made it 2-2 on a power play at 15:34, scoring his 17th of the season on a pass from Mcdavid. It was his first goal in seven games and first point in three contests.
The teams exchanged first-period goals. The Oilers opened the scoring when Mcdavid dug a puck out of the corner and sent a pass in front of the net that was deflected to the blue line. Defenseman Darnell Nurse sent a pass to the side of the net. Archibald deflected that pass past Markstrom at 9:09 for his first point in 20 games this season.
J.T. Miller was workhorse on Vancouver’s tying goal at 15:34. Miller picked up the puck and circled in front of the Oilers’ net, fighting off several defenders, before passing to Quinn Hughes. He dished to Boeser, who scored his 11th of the season, then took a stick in the face.