OILERS FALL JUST SHORT IN BATTLE WITH PENS

Fans who came to the arena looking for fireworks definitely got some Tuesday night — 11 goals and four lead changes as the Edmonton Oilers and Pittsburgh Penguins went head to head in an old-school classic.

Eventually it started getting dark so it came down to next goals wins.

And guess who scored it. Sidney Crosby delivered a goal for the ages 2:12 into overtime to put the cherry on the best game Rogers Place has seen in a long time.

The Oilers outshot Pittsburgh 10-0 to start the second period and 9-0 to start the third period and looked poised to beat the Penguins in regulation for the first time in 16 games, but it wasn’t to be as Edmonton fell to 3-3-1 on the season.

It started slowly, with the Oilers trailing 1-0 after 20 on Crosby’s first of the season.

Then it got wild in the second period. Leon Draisaitl and Alex Chiasson scored twice in the first 3:10 to put Edmonton up 2-1. Jamie Oleksiak and Patric Hornqvist scored three minutes apart to take back the lead. Chiasson scored again to tie it. Then Hornqvist scored again at 19:05 to make it 4-3 with 20 minutes to go. And they weren’t done there. Connor McDavid and Draisaitl scored power play goals in the first 4:18 and the Oilers were back in front and sure enough, Oleksiak tied it again and they were dead even again.

Then Crosby came off the boards, undressed Ryan Strome and Cam Talbot and that was that.

MIXED EMOTIONS

Kind of an up and down night for Chiasson. After cooling his heels for the first five games of the season and playing just seven minutes in the sixth, he made his mark on the Oilers with two high end goals Tuesday.

His first of the season came on an individual effort that looked like something McDavid would do. He started by laying out a defender, spinning out of the corner, taking a shot, grabbing his own rebound out of mid air and burying his first of the season from his knees.

He capped off a feed from Tobias Rieder with a one-timer for his second.

Alas, it didn’t end as well as it started as he took a puck in the face in the third period and had to leave the game for repairs.

DOT DOT DOT

Wow. With five minutes left in a tie game a linesman doles out a faceoff violation penalty to Pittsburgh. That’s nothing more than saying “Everyone look at me.”… Head coach Todd McLellan showed a lot of faith in Cooper Marody, playing him last in the third period in his first game up.